2016-17 OKC Thunder Regular Season: I

[bondom34]

Y'all should read this.

http://www.normantranscript.com/sports/andre-roberson-proving-his-value-on-defense/article_ef6a632e-ad0b-11e6-8f2c-573b5186f269.html

#KeepRobesInOKC

I've been defending him for so long I'd be lost without him.

I think I've been right behind you.

[Thabo Sefolosha]

@bondom34, any chance we do separate game threads after this one hits 100 pages with the growing community on this team board?

[bondom34]

@bondom34, any chance we do separate game threads after this one hits 100 pages with the growing community on this team board?

You wanna do it now?

You take over as official thread starter?

[bondom34]

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[bondom34]

https://theringer.com/domantas-sabonis-is-the-thunders-latest-big-bet-7abacc622e47#.pbrpwgl7l

[Pillendreher]

http://basketball.realgm.com/article/244009/The-Hubris-Of-The-Oklahoma-City-Westbrooks

Yada, Yada, Yada. Haters gonna hate.

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[Bergmaniac]

http://basketball.realgm.com/article/244009/The-Hubris-Of-The-Oklahoma-City-Westbrooks

Yada, Yada, Yada. Haters gonna hate.

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This is an embarrassingly bad article. Even purely in terms of style.

Westbrook is preternaturally inclined to overrate his powers and he’s been justified in doing so at many points in his career, particularly as an overlooked, under-recruited high school player.

In the aftermath of Durant leaving for the Warriors, the Thunder inveigled Westbrook to sign an extension, appealing to his hubris

This roster is structurally inimical to his game and instead of assembling a supporting cast that could nurture Westbrook’s impulses, Sam Presti has largely done the opposite. Oklahoma City’s wings don’t enable Westbrook any notion of space

[bondom34]

http://basketball.realgm.com/article/244009/The-Hubris-Of-The-Oklahoma-City-Westbrooks

Yada, Yada, Yada. Haters gonna hate.

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This is an embarrassingly bad article. Even purely in terms of style.

Westbrook is preternaturally inclined to overrate his powers and he’s been justified in doing so at many points in his career, particularly as an overlooked, under-recruited high school player.

In the aftermath of Durant leaving for the Warriors, the Thunder inveigled Westbrook to sign an extension, appealing to his hubris

This roster is structurally inimical to his game and instead of assembling a supporting cast that could nurture Westbrook’s impulses, Sam Presti has largely done the opposite. Oklahoma City’s wings don’t enable Westbrook any notion of space

The writer is just really bad in general. Same guy who did a bunch of stories over the summer on various teams using an attempt at sounding intellectual but totally missing the point. Apparently he's a senior writer for the site somehow?

[Dadouv47]

That was a short but brillant speech by westbrook. No bull*** talk and fake emotions but mentioning his hopes for the future of everyone and talking about gender/race equalities.

The GOAT was there for our GOAT in Oklahoma City Thunder.

[bondom34]

http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM

Early, but RPM out. Russ at 7th, Adams 2nd in the league in DRPM.

Yeah he's worth it.

[bondom34]

Also, Sabonis already over Serge in RPM.

[DoubleJ13]

Presti has seemed to prioritize defensive versatility over floor spacing and playmaking in the recent additions of Victor Oladipo and Jerami Grant both of whom were costly in terms of trade price. Oladipo has so far only given the Thunder a similar level of inconsistency as Dion Waiters at a substantially higher price with his four-year, $84 million extension. It is difficult to envision the Thunder re-signing Roberson long-term in this economic climate after committing to Oladipo; trading for Grant, who is signed until 2018, felt like direct protection against losing Roberson. Unlike Oladipo and Grant, at least Roberson is consistently very good at one NBA skill. The additions of Alex Abrines, Semaj Christon and Joffrey Lauvergne have given no indication of working out. Josh Huestis is a 24-year-old D-Leaguer. Cameron Payne can’t stay healthy and it’s hard to see the logic of that pick when the scenario of maximized talent still led to an under-capitalized trade in Reggie Jackson.

We're 12 games in & this guy is already calling it. Oladipo is garbage, Grant is garbage, Robes is already gone, & Abrines & Christon are never going to be any better than they are right now 12 games into their NBA career. I guess Lauvergne hasn't worked out if you expected more than a 10-15 minutes a night backup big. Huestis is a project 15th man on the roster like pretty much every team has regardless of how good or bad the team is so that's a dumb point to me. Payne as a pick was a luxury lotto pick at the time when we were pretty much set every where else roster wise & somehow comparing that to the Reggie thing is a stupid way to look at things, unless Payne suddenly gets a huge ego & stops trying because he isn't getting his way.

Since he didn't mention him I assume he thinks Singler is fine because if I was going to write about the failures of the Thunder, Singler & his contract would have made the list over the idea that 2 rookies have "given no indication of working out" 12 games in. The Thunder are such a weird team to read outside perspective on because it always feels like people just overlook things for whatever reason when they write about them.

[bondom34]

Presti has seemed to prioritize defensive versatility over floor spacing and playmaking in the recent additions of Victor Oladipo and Jerami Grant both of whom were costly in terms of trade price. Oladipo has so far only given the Thunder a similar level of inconsistency as Dion Waiters at a substantially higher price with his four-year, $84 million extension. It is difficult to envision the Thunder re-signing Roberson long-term in this economic climate after committing to Oladipo; trading for Grant, who is signed until 2018, felt like direct protection against losing Roberson. Unlike Oladipo and Grant, at least Roberson is consistently very good at one NBA skill. The additions of Alex Abrines, Semaj Christon and Joffrey Lauvergne have given no indication of working out. Josh Huestis is a 24-year-old D-Leaguer. Cameron Payne can’t stay healthy and it’s hard to see the logic of that pick when the scenario of maximized talent still led to an under-capitalized trade in Reggie Jackson.

We're 12 games in & this guy is already calling it. Oladipo is garbage, Grant is garbage, Robes is already gone, & Abrines & Christon are never going to be any better than they are right now 12 games into their NBA career. I guess Lauvergne hasn't worked out if you expected more than a 10-15 minutes a night backup big. Huestis is a project 15th man on the roster like pretty much every team has regardless of how good or bad the team is so that's a dumb point to me. Payne as a pick was a luxury lotto pick at the time when we were pretty much set every where else roster wise & somehow comparing that to the Reggie thing is a stupid way to look at things, unless Payne suddenly gets a huge ego & stops trying because he isn't getting his way.

Since he didn't mention him I assume he thinks Singler is fine because if I was going to write about the failures of the Thunder, Singler & his contract would have made the list over the idea that 2 rookies have "given no indication of working out" 12 games in. The Thunder are such a weird team to read outside perspective on because it always feels like people just overlook things for whatever reason when they write about them.

Same guy also said it was a bad move to extend Russ.

He's not a very good writer.

[ducler]

[bondom34]

Hey all, locking this up. Thabo Sefolosha is now the thread starter .