20-21 OKC Thunder Regular Season News

Post #321 » by **slick_watts** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:06 pm

sga is better than donovan mitchell already. mitchell is a bubble hoax, like jamal murray. i don't buy their playoff #'s one bit. sga becoming a league leading FTr-guy obviates whatever advantages mitchell may have elsewhere... which is what, exactly? slightly less turnover prone i guess. mitchell started this season scorching hot from three and, surprise-surprise, sga has him beat there now, as well.

should sga's trajectory hold true to what he has done so far this season he has accomplished what he needed to in order to surpass players like mitchell. so unless you think sga is a fluke i don't see how mitchell should be ahead of him on any ranking at the moment.

oh and of course, sga doesn't get to hide behind the best defensive big of this generation for 90% of his minutes.

Post #322 » by **Dadouv47** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:06 pm

hope this is our FO waking up about trying to tank a bit.

Post #323 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:32 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:
ThunderBolt wrote:

Read on Twitter

Read on Twitter

More sense to do this against the Cavs some days ago...but yeah pretty nice.

Pretty obvious that i'ts a subtle tank move. Better chance of losing against Denver than Atlanta with Horford playing.

Post #324 » by **Dadouv47** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 2:28 pm

yeah we missed 2-3 better options to tank (resting SGA one game more against the Wolves; not playing Horford against the Cavs) but it's a good move.

thedoppelganger · Post #325 » by **thedoppelganger** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:12 pm

Read on Twitter

Let the Shai praise flow

Post #326 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:17 pm

thedoppelganger wrote:

Read on Twitter

Let the Shai praise flow

That was a well written article.

spearsy23 · Post #327 » by **spearsy23** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:20 pm

Just a reminder that when we haven't won a championship two years from now people will be dogpiling on how shai just isn't good enough. It happens to every young all star who doesn't win a championship by the end of his rookie deal.

Post #328 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Feb 26, 2021 7:51 pm

spearsy23 wrote:Just a reminder that when we haven't won a championship two years from now people will be dogpiling on how shai just isn't good enough. It happens to every young all star who doesn't win a championship by the end of his rookie deal.

It tends happens before that. Luka gets crapped on daily. When it happens to Shai, it will be a true testament to the fact that he's arrived on a national level. Shai doesn't get the criticism of those guys partly due to his draft position.

Post #329 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:02 am

Read on Twitter

Post #330 » by **Dadouv47** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 1:58 am

We tried to win a Championship during 7-8 years with two bad coaches and now that we need to lose games, we hire a very good one.

Post #331 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:27 am

Theo is looking really good.

jake_swivel · Post #332 » by **jake_swivel** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 3:17 am

ThunderBolt wrote:Theo is looking really good.

Career high in assists with 12. Previous was 5.

Post #333 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 3:18 am

jake_swivel wrote:
ThunderBolt wrote:Theo is looking really good.

Career high in assists with 12. Previous was 5.

Lots of guys looked good tonight. Atlanta’s defense did not.

spearsy23 · Post #334 » by **spearsy23** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:26 am

ThunderBolt wrote:
spearsy23 wrote:Just a reminder that when we haven't won a championship two years from now people will be dogpiling on how shai just isn't good enough. It happens to every young all star who doesn't win a championship by the end of his rookie deal.

It tends happens before that. Luka gets crapped on daily. When it happens to Shai, it will be a true testament to the fact that he's arrived on a national level. Shai doesn't get the criticism of those guys partly due to his draft position.

It's generally 2 years after a guy 'arrives' on the national stage. Celebrated in that first year, hyped into the mvp conversation the 2nd year, absolute overpaid trash by year 3.

Post #335 » by **Dadouv47** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:28 am

I don't think Presti thought our young guys could be that good this season when he decided to draft Poku....

Post #336 » by **slick_watts** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:33 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:We tried to win a Championship during 7-8 years with two bad coaches and now that we need to lose games, we hire a very good one.

this is such an odd take. in his 30-ish games of nba head coaching experience, what has mark 'd' done to receive such praise?

Post #337 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:20 am

Just think our defensive system is pretty solid and I'm not sure if the credit is on coach D or the coaching staff but overall they are doing a pretty good job.

Also never seen so many young players playing with such a high confidence. It wasn't the case with Billy D.

Post #338 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:23 am

I have no issue with teams hitting 66% from three against us.

Post #339 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:34 am

Jerome has been solid.

Post #340 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:40 am

ThunderBolt wrote:Jerome has been solid.

Yeah would be nice to give Jerome & Theo as much playing time as possible (not only for the tank).

I have no idea how we will be able to develop so many young players next year with 3-4 drafted guys / Vasilije Micic and Poku.