Thunder Offseason Thread

anthony00 · Post #221 » by **anthony00** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:41 pm

https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/bhbv9b/a_series_of_royce_young_tweets_from_the_thunder/

Pillendreher · Post #222 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:52 pm

Kizz Fastfists wrote:That is because Presti has failed at his job. Donovan is a symptom of the Sam Presti disease. A new coach will be the same as Donovan and Brooks. The players will do what they want. The cure is to fire Presti. Sam Hinkie is the cure for OKC!

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Schröder thanking his coach for not insisting on players playing a certain way and just letting them play is quite something.

Kizz Fastfists · Post #223 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:21 pm

It is similar to what we have heard from PG and others. Donovan doesn't coach he just lets the players do what they want. Donovan is the cool uncle that starts getting you beer when you are 14 and then doesn't understand why the DUI you get at 17 is a considered a problem.

Post #224 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:28 pm

Dn4sty wrote:
ThunderBolt wrote:Paul said he has been dealing with the injury a long time, longer than the two months where he sat out three games but the thunder training staff told him he was ok to keep playing.

I listened to the whole thing and didn’t get this at all.

Which part? I posted right after I heard it.

Post #225 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:30 pm

Interesting that Dononvan is contrasted with a coach from the spurs an Popovich tree.

Post #226 » by **Dadouv47** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:35 pm

Hire some psychiatrists if the players want to be listened by someone. GIve them a coach to draw plays.

Kizz Fastfists · Post #227 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:39 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:
Dn4sty wrote:
ThunderBolt wrote:Paul said he has been dealing with the injury a long time, longer than the two months where he sat out three games but the thunder training staff told him he was ok to keep playing.

I listened to the whole thing and didn’t get this at all.

Which part? I posted right after I heard it.

Around 2hr 18 min. He said they didn't have a time frame so he wasn't sure if he'd be healed by the start of camp. It was more of a I don't know than anything else. He made it clear surgery is needed. He also said he thought they would have made it a lot further if he hadn't been hurt so he obviously feels it drastically effected him if he thinks that injury was the difference between a 4-1 loss in round 1 to a possible WCF appearance. I took that as a theme pushed by OKC because there are not going to be any changes and they want the stupid fans to keep believing this team will magically get out of the first round next year.

Pillendreher · Post #228 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:56 pm

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This is lazy reasoning in my opinion. First of all, people throw that postseason around like they didn't blow a 3-1 lead. Things like that matter. We don't get anything for making it that far. Secondly, past success does not negate recent failures. If - and that is my contention - recent postseasons have been failures in large part due to Donovan, you don't get to just sweep that under the rug because he "has shown he can get the team far into the Playoffs". The key to being good at something is being consistently good at it. If you perform well one time and the same thing doesn't happen again (and I'm not saying we have to make the WCF; what I'm saying is: Play well in the postseason), then maybe the first time around was the outlier and you don't get to throw that around like you just went 16-0.

CROklahoma · Post #229 » by **CROklahoma** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:04 pm

FFS, the media and the players are preparing the ground for return of Billy.

I'm seriously done with this **** ...

Post #230 » by **ThunderBolt** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:05 pm

Billy gets more credit for going to the WCFs than brooks does for making the finals.

anthony00 · Post #231 » by **anthony00** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:06 pm

We Need Mark Jackson

Post #232 » by **slick_watts** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:08 pm

Pillendreher wrote:
Kizz Fastfists wrote:That is because Presti has failed at his job. Donovan is a symptom of the Sam Presti disease. A new coach will be the same as Donovan and Brooks. The players will do what they want. The cure is to fire Presti. Sam Hinkie is the cure for OKC!

Read on Twitter

Schröder thanking his coach for not insisting on players playing a certain way and just letting them play is quite something.

this is exactly what the thunder were looking for though. yes it is interesting that schroder compares him to coach bud-- a spurs guy. the thunder have professed since infancy that they want to be like the spurs but they are polar opposites in many important ways. such as hiring a player's coach like donovan, encouraging the cults of personality of the stars, and the treasuring of athletes over skill-sets. thunder have been nothing like the spurs with the exception of how they got started, with a tank and a lottery luck.

Pillendreher · Post #233 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:09 pm

ThunderBolt wrote:Billy gets more credit for going to the WCFs than brooks does for making the finals.

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OVERHAULED THE SYSTEM :lol:

Post #234 » by **slick_watts** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:11 pm

scott brooks was never a disciplinarian but he was comparatively lockstep compared to donovan. recall brooks benching westbrook in the playoffs for maynor? or the one game he benched both durant and westbrook against the bulls because they were lazy? all you need to know about how the organization operates is looking at the change they made and how sam didn't interview or consider anyone else.

Post #235 » by **slick_watts** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:12 pm

all that said i hate that there's so much attention on donovan and his merits instead of the roster and our gargantuan holes.

Post #236 » by **Dadouv47** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:12 pm

Russ mentioning again that his friendship with PG13 is the most important couldn't be a sign that he may want to leave or I'm reading way too much about this?

anthony00 · Post #237 » by **anthony00** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:13 pm

https://www.nba.com/article/2019/04/25/thunder-exit-interviews-donovan-westbrook-george

" The Thunder picked up Donovan's option for 2019-20 in December, thus keeping him under contract for now. However, based on what he said Thursday, Donovan plans to talk further with team officials this summer about his long-term future there. "

Kizz Fastfists · Post #238 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:19 pm

anthony00 wrote:https://www.nba.com/article/2019/04/25/thunder-exit-interviews-donovan-westbrook-george

" The Thunder picked up Donovan's option for 2019-20 in December, thus keeping him under contract for now. However, based on what he said Thursday, Donovan plans to talk further with team officials this summer about his long-term future there. "

I'm going to predict that Donovan gets an extension this off-season. Donovan will get fired next off-season after OKC misses the playoffs.

Pillendreher · Post #239 » by **Pillendreher** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 9:27 pm

Kizz Fastfists wrote:
anthony00 wrote:https://www.nba.com/article/2019/04/25/thunder-exit-interviews-donovan-westbrook-george

" The Thunder picked up Donovan's option for 2019-20 in December, thus keeping him under contract for now. However, based on what he said Thursday, Donovan plans to talk further with team officials this summer about his long-term future there. "

I'm going to predict that Donovan gets an extension this off-season. Donovan will get fired next off-season after OKC misses the playoffs.

Kizz Fastfists · Post #240 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Thu Apr 25, 2019 9:38 pm

I always thought that was secondtake. I'm shocked to discover that is you, Pill.