Dadouv47 wrote:Funny that a lot of NBA fans think we are such an easy first round match up. I hope our players can prove them wrong. I have a 2-3 teams in the West that I think could be better than us in the postseason but I'm surprised to read people having us as underdogs against Kings/Pels/Warriors
I don't understand NOLA as a tough matchup. They are my ideal first round matchup and the most likely to be swept by OKC. With Zion injured they probably lose to the Kings today. GS would have been an easy matchup, 5 games at most. Sacramento is the toughest of the three, but OKC should handle them in 5-6 games. Just going positionally with the starting lineups SGA>Fox, Dort=Eliis, Giddey=Barnes, JDub>Murray and Chet=Sabonis. You can argue Chet over Sabonis, but at this point I think they are about equal. Chet will be better, but I don't believe you can definitively say he is better today. OKC has the much better bench with Joe, Cason and Jaylin compared to Mitchell, Lyons and Len. If Huerter and Monk were healthy I'd have it as a 6-7 game series. As it stands OKC should beat the Kings in 5 games.
If OKC loses in the first round this team has some significant issues either with the coaching or the roster that will need to be addressed in the off-season. I have Denver as more likely to lose in the first round than OKC, but both have 99%+ chance of advancing. If you want to look ahead, I would rather play LAC in the 2nd round than Dallas. Dallas presents some matchup issues and will be a very tough opponent. OKC lost one game to LAC this year where SGA and Chet both had bad games. The other two games OKC won by 19 and 22 points. The one time Dallas and OKC played healthy Dallas blew out OKC. OKC won two other games one with Kyrie out and the other with Luka out. The last game of the season is irrelevant as Dallas sat everyone. I could see Dallas beating OKC in 5 and if that were to happen it would hopefully get Presti to rethink his roster composition.
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