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Thunder's always gonna be there with KD and RWB, though Alpha suffered a serious injury he's still a top 5 NBA player and Beta is not even in his prime yet. I doubt Beta will leave Alpha, he's too much of a pussy, imo, tbh.
Westbrick should've been the one that was traded, now the thunder have missed out on a dynasty. Depending how it goes, maybe durant will bolt knowing he's going through the lebron in cleaveland phase and the thunder ironically become candidates to move to seattle. to think stern let the sonics move to that wasteland just cause key arena wasn't fancy enough.
Thunder's always gonna be there with KD and RWB, though Alpha suffered a serious injury he's still a top 5 NBA player and Beta is not even in his prime yet. I doubt Beta will leave Alpha, he's too much of a pussy, imo, tbh.
They truly are the '90s Sonics, best way to approach it.
The real question is what team will the league, TV networks, and NIKE send Durant to? MY guess would be the Lakers in a couple of years after Kobe limps off into the sunset. Both NY teams have marquee names, Chicago too, so the Lakers for sure.
Raptors to play with Wiggins, tbh.....
not screwed at all, don't know what you guys are talking about, if they kept all their studs, they would destroy the league for the next 10 years, the way it is now you can't tell who will win next year, which is great.
I don't see how people don't think the Thunderefs are in trouble when they're basically a two-man team with zero depth and one of the worst coaches in the league.... alternating Durant isos and Westbrick isos all game might work in the regular season but it will be shut down in the playoffs by one of the many deeper, more balanced and better-coached teams in the West, tbh.... the only way I see them getting back to the Finals is if Stern/Silver gives them the '02 Lakers treatment all playoffs long (and even that might not be enough)....
They will still be better than the Clippers, GSW, Houston tbh
tbh they are not thin at all, they only need to start developing their young players, they have a lot of assets that only need playing time. With Martin gone, and a granted top 3 seed, they should find some time for Jackson, Jones and Lamb to play. Their center spot sucks though.
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Right now everything feels like a trainwreck. Scotty Brooks has to let Lamb and Jones develop. Another thing that should be on the coaching agenda is the micromanaging of minutes to our key rotation players. Running them to the ground will come back to bite us in the ass in the postseason. The front office needs to bring in a reliable scoring threat at shooting guard. Bull like wanting to bring Fish back will keep us stationary.
The problem with bringing a quality player in is it likely puts us in the luxury tax which is something Presti wants to avoid for this season. Presti knows this Thunder core will be intact for the foreseeable future so wasting a year of paying the luxury tax with this unimpressive group of free agents is something he'll pass on. Provided that we amnesty Perk, we can avoid paying the luxury tax for 2014-15 and avoid the dreaded repeater penalty of 2015-16.
Under these cir stances we are going to need drastic internal improvement to have a shot at a finals berth, our current ceiling as of now.
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