slick_watts wrote:ChipotleWest wrote:slick_watts wrote:
we'll see what? what happens in the series won't change what happened during the season. the thunder were the better team. the thunder played like an elite team all year. doesn't mean they'd beat the mavs, but they would be favored.
You're ignoring the context that Mavs got 2 of the top contributors at the trade deadline
no, i understand the context. the thunder were a 8+ SRS team in games that shai and jalen williams played. maybe the mavs would have been as good as that with their current roster for an entire season, maybe not. seems unlikely to me.
i don't really care if you say the mavs would be favored anyway. my main beef is with folks not acknowledging how good the thunder are in their own right.
I'm not really trying to argue who would be favored, probably OKC. It's just the repeated pointed out that OKC was the better team when they were the same team in October than they were at the end of the season and the Mavs weren't doesn't really apply in my opinion. If the Mavs didn't make the trades at the deadline they made they were probably going to be a play in team at best, after the trade deadline they've had a W/L record better than anyone except Boston.
