SGA will be TOP 10 Player in 3 years. (Before 2024/25 Season)

Post #41 » by **Capn'O** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:04 am

If he's healthy, that trajectory should become clear this season.

Jadoogar · Post #42 » by **Jadoogar** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:10 am

Lol top 10? Come on. Donovon Mitchell, Devin Booker, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown are some fantastic young players and no one considers them top 10. Is SGA even on their level yet?

Buckeye-NBAFan · Post #43 » by **Buckeye-NBAFan** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:14 am

jehosafats wrote:Strange to see him mentioned alongside some of the best guards. I can't recall ever seeing him play.

If you don't watch the NBA playoffs, your opinion probably isn't worth much anyway. Just saying.

WestbrookGOATed · Post #44 » by **WestbrookGOATed** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:15 am

I wholeheartedly agree. He's the most underrated player in basketball. He'll be an all star this year. And the Thunder are going to be much better than most expect. I see SGA as the absolute best #2 you could get but I could see him as a #1 atleast in the regular season. He's a very exciting, fun player to watch and root for and I speak for all Thunder fans when I say we're so grateful to have him.

jehosafats · Post #45 » by **jehosafats** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:21 am

Buckeye-NBAFan wrote:
jehosafats wrote:Strange to see him mentioned alongside some of the best guards. I can't recall ever seeing him play.

If you don't watch the NBA playoffs, your opinion probably isn't worth much anyway. Just saying.

ha...what?

SharpyShuffle · Post #46 » by **SharpyShuffle** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:23 am

Jadoogar wrote:Lol top 10? Come on. Donovon Mitchell, Devin Booker, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown are some fantastic young players and no one considers them top 10. Is SGA even on their level yet?

SGA is better than all of them except Tatum. Like, there is really no reason to think someone like Booker is better than SGA beyond 'Booker is the one who plays with CP3 now'. SGA can do everything Book can do and more.

jehosafats · Post #47 » by **jehosafats** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:44 am

SharpyShuffle wrote:
Jadoogar wrote:Lol top 10? Come on. Donovon Mitchell, Devin Booker, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown are some fantastic young players and no one considers them top 10. Is SGA even on their level yet?

SGA is better than all of them except Tatum. Like, there is really no reason to think someone like Booker is better than SGA beyond 'Booker is the one who plays with CP3 now'. SGA can do everything Book can do and more.

I've seen him play a few times. I haven't seen him enough to say how great he is either way. Hearing him mentioned next to some of the marquee guards in the league takes some getting used to. Tatum is next level. He was a starter from the start. First regular season game: 14 pts, 10 rebs, 3 stls. Guys like Ja and Mitchell win games. I kind of expect any guard of their caliber or greater to have similar accolades. OKC is a special case though.

ReKon · Post #48 » by **ReKon** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:50 am

I really like the way he plays. He is very smooth and looks like no matter what he is doing things on his own pace.

He could easily be a top 20 player right now but this OKC squad definitely needs either internal improvement or to consolidate assets and bring in a top player alongside him. They are not winning anytime soon and OKC is a small market so I doubt SGA gets recognised anytime soon but the efficiency he showed while being the only reall offensive threat OKC had last year shows that he is a legitimate young star in the making

OkcSinceSGA · Post #49 » by **OkcSinceSGA** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:13 am

jehosafats wrote:
SharpyShuffle wrote:
Jadoogar wrote:Lol top 10? Come on. Donovon Mitchell, Devin Booker, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown are some fantastic young players and no one considers them top 10. Is SGA even on their level yet?

SGA is better than all of them except Tatum. Like, there is really no reason to think someone like Booker is better than SGA beyond 'Booker is the one who plays with CP3 now'. SGA can do everything Book can do and more.

I've seen him play a few times. I haven't seen him enough to say how great he is either way. Hearing him mentioned next to some of the marquee guards in the league takes some getting used to. Tatum is next level. He was a starter from the start. First regular season game: 14 pts, 10 rebs, 3 stls. Guys like Ja and Mitchell win games. I kind of expect any guard of their caliber or greater to have similar accolades. OKC is a special case though.

Ja has made the playoffs once, SGA twice (SGA has one more year played). The Thunder won more games in 2020 and in 2021 they were pacing similar wins before OKC shut down SGA. For fun H2H SGA owned Ja badly in 2020 (they didn’t play in 2021 because SGA was shut down late March ). Mitchell wins games because he was drafted to a good team that is an extremely deep team.

RAPSinCAPS · Post #50 » by **RAPSinCAPS** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:31 am

That Paul George for SGA trade looking worse by the day considering the haul they gave up in addition to SGA. I wouldn't trade SGA straight up for him.

Hroz · Post #51 » by **Hroz** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:32 am

In 3 years
Durant Harden Giannis Jokic Embiid Kawhi Davis Doncic Zion Young Booker Beal Tatum

Should be better than SGA. And I've probably forgotten players.

With drafts looking deeper and deeper for me.

SharpyShuffle · Post #52 » by **SharpyShuffle** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:55 am

Hroz wrote:In 3 years
Durant Harden Giannis Jokic Embiid Kawhi Davis Doncic Zion Young Booker Beal Tatum

Should be better than SGA. And I've probably forgotten players.

With drafts looking deeper and deeper for me.

At least some of those older guys will drop off. 3 years ago people still called Westbrook a top 10 player...

I would bet any amount of money that not all of Harden, Durant (both aging), Kawhi and AD (both injury prone) will be top 10 in 3 years.

And SGA is already as good as Booker or Young. You're seriously underestimating SGA if you don't see this (and seriously overestimating Booker in particular if you think he's going to be a top10 player). There's really nothing Booker does better than SGA except for Kobe impressions, and several pretty damn important things SGA does better than Booker.

E: Not sure why Beal is there either. He's not close to top 10 now, he's not going to improve significantly: he'll simply be overtaken by younger, better players.

Buckeye-NBAFan · Post #53 » by **Buckeye-NBAFan** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:10 am

jehosafats wrote:
Buckeye-NBAFan wrote:
jehosafats wrote:Strange to see him mentioned alongside some of the best guards. I can't recall ever seeing him play.

If you don't watch the NBA playoffs, your opinion probably isn't worth much anyway. Just saying.

ha...what?

He played in 2 of the last 3 playoffs, and you said you can't recall seeing him play. That reads as you don't watch the NBA playoffs. At least not the Clippers and Thunder games. Just thought it was funny.

jehosafats · Post #54 » by **jehosafats** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:27 am

OKCfanSinceSGA wrote:
jehosafats wrote:
SharpyShuffle wrote:SGA is better than all of them except Tatum. Like, there is really no reason to think someone like Booker is better than SGA beyond 'Booker is the one who plays with CP3 now'. SGA can do everything Book can do and more.

I've seen him play a few times. I haven't seen him enough to say how great he is either way. Hearing him mentioned next to some of the marquee guards in the league takes some getting used to. Tatum is next level. He was a starter from the start. First regular season game: 14 pts, 10 rebs, 3 stls. Guys like Ja and Mitchell win games. I kind of expect any guard of their caliber or greater to have similar accolades. OKC is a special case though.

Ja has made the playoffs once, SGA twice (SGA has one more year played). The Thunder won more games in 2020 and in 2021 they were pacing similar wins before OKC shut down SGA. For fun H2H SGA owned Ja badly in 2020 (they didn’t play in 2021 because SGA was shut down late March ). Mitchell wins games because he was drafted to a good team that is an extremely deep team.

Full disclosure, OKC is not a team I check for. Though I'm aware they've upset some good teams and were not an easy out, even after Westbrook. I never really bothered to find out how or why, and just assumed it was their defense, or maybe some other within-conference intangibles. There were just too many teams to watch these past few seasons. They're on my radar now.

OkcSinceSGA · Post #55 » by **OkcSinceSGA** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:01 am

jehosafats wrote:
OKCfanSinceSGA wrote:
jehosafats wrote:I've seen him play a few times. I haven't seen him enough to say how great he is either way. Hearing him mentioned next to some of the marquee guards in the league takes some getting used to. Tatum is next level. He was a starter from the start. First regular season game: 14 pts, 10 rebs, 3 stls. Guys like Ja and Mitchell win games. I kind of expect any guard of their caliber or greater to have similar accolades. OKC is a special case though.

Ja has made the playoffs once, SGA twice (SGA has one more year played). The Thunder won more games in 2020 and in 2021 they were pacing similar wins before OKC shut down SGA. For fun H2H SGA owned Ja badly in 2020 (they didn’t play in 2021 because SGA was shut down late March ). Mitchell wins games because he was drafted to a good team that is an extremely deep team.

Full disclosure, OKC is not a team I check for. Though I'm aware they've upset some good teams and were not an easy out, even after Westbrook. I never really bothered to find out how or why, and just assumed it was their defense, or maybe some other within-conference intangibles. There were just too many teams to watch these past few seasons. They're on my radar now.

They have multiple exciting young players. You’ll enjoy the games

Johnny Bball · Post #56 » by **Johnny Bball** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:14 am

Just nah. And he has played on just badddd teams.

Floody100 · Post #57 » by **Floody100** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:10 am

A lot of delusional OKC fans on this board lol

namlede · Post #58 » by **namlede** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 12:50 pm

Johnny Bball wrote:Just nah. And he has played on just badddd teams.

he played on 1 bad team. and that bad team was 16-19 before he was shut down. so really he has played on 2 playoff teams and one close to .500 team ...

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timO · Post #59 » by **timO** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:11 pm

He can be if he continues improving.

Actually i put him in the top 25-35 range.

In his position only Irving (he plays SG last year) and Beal are far superior.

He is in the same tier of Booker-Mitchell-Lavine-Murray-Mccollum-Brown and co.

Post #60 » by **Harry Garris** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:46 pm

OKCfanSinceSGA wrote:Yes. He’s already top 20. Top 10 isn’t some crazy high bar really.

I hate to be the guy saying he's doing it on a losing team and hasn't exactly shown much in the playoffs yet... but that's honestly my feeling with SGA. He has it in him to be a top 20 player in the league but we gotta see it in action first. If he really is that good then the Thunder should be a much better team this year and he'll have them fighting for a playin spot.

Will SGA be top 10 player in the league by the start of 2024/25 season