Presti loves picking up guys who never reached potential despite high draft picks. Here's to hoping Oladipo follows in Waiters' footsteps and Kanter's defensive half.
Stop overrating him because he was the second overall pick. He can't shoot. That's a problem when you need to spread the floor. Ibaka is a MUCH better shooter.
I agree on ORL's need for a rim protector, but still feel like they gave away too much for a regressing Ibaka that might be gone next year anyway.
Oladipo is a talented player, still with potential. I still had hope he could improve his shooting.
On top of that Sabonis is a lottery pick too.
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Agree. But also, there is no way OKC made this move without knowing Durant intentions. Presti knows they're losing KD and now he's trying to get young pieces, very similar to Portland and LMA last offseason, trading everyone because they lost their best player.
Oladipo is like a bigger, more athletic that can play the two Reggie Jackson who they lost and was a Spurs killer, great deal for OKC, Spurs are so ed!!! OKC keep their front court of Kanter and Adams that murdered the Spurs(with Sabonis that could also help and be an upgrade over Kanter some day) and adding high level perimeter guy long side the big 2...
How quickly you forget what a big piece of the front court Ibaka was. By the Warriors series, Kanter barely saw the floor. Ibaka's shooting percentage was lower but don't forget he was LITERALLY the only reliable shooter outside of Durant ... Morrow doesn't count because he plays zero D.
Stop overrating Oladipo based on athleticism. He's shown flashes but is pretty inefficient. Maybe he gets better with more limited touches - I expect he does, as well as while he ages - but still risky to move Ibaka.
Probably more of a deal to move Ibaka before it got too expensive to resign him next summer while having Oladipo under team control. Sabonis was a nice bonus in the deal.
Magic moves make me scratch my head. Why not just see if you can develop a young Tobias Harris into something competent instead of panicking on Ibaka?
you forgot if Chuckbrook and Durant can stay healthy or any player on that OKC team....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAN9ORwsiVA
if you wanna crown em then crown thier ass!!!!
LMAO at the Hype
Last time I checked you need 4 big men in your rotation, so Adams, Kanter, Sabonis and McGary equals four. It'll be interesting what happens with Nick Collison and if he even has a spot in the rotation anymore.
The issue is that they don't have a starting quality PF
I think Sabonis or McGary can play the 4 in stretchs, but you're right that they lack any true power forward with this current 4 man group.
Probably going to see a lot of Roberson playing at the 4 spot against mobile PFs.
They have Ilyasova as a solid stretch four, they could always use durant at the 4... And against the Spurs moustache brothers front court work great for them...
The team to beat in the West are the Duds & Ibaka had the best net rating in the WCF. Ilyasova is D-Worst status on defense & has no chance against Draymond.
lol, like you wanted the Spurs playing the Thunder instead of Clippers, you should retire from this site!!!
I don't understand what the Magic is doing, they already have Gordon who's a four and i really like Oladipo.
But for us it's a good thing, Ibaka was a problem for the Spurs.
Grand theft Orlando.
Last I checked Cripples beat the Spurs when the Spurs actually had a bench & Tim wasn't a dead man walking.
Cripples knocked off the defending champs in Gm 7 despite Chris Paul playing on one leg meanwhile Meth City blew a 3-1 lead despite Curry playing w/ a torn MCL for the ENTIRE series.
Last edited by Kawhitstorm; 06-24-2016 at 12:41 PM.
Well you prove wrong bigtime with your disrespect of thunder, all this just show how much superficial you are with your takes, you can't read behind anything! At least if you only been stupid, but not, you also arrogant on top of it...Last I checked Cripples beat the Spurs when the Spurs actually had a bench & Tim wasn't a dead man walking.
Cripples knocked off the defending champs in Gm 7 despite Chris Paul playing on one leg meanwhile Meth City blew a 3-1 lead despite Curry playing w/ a torn MCL for the ENTIRE series.
Last edited by kobyz; 06-24-2016 at 12:57 PM.
I ACTUALLY happened so there is NOTHING superficial about it.
What happened is thunder on the Spurs...I ACTUALLY happened so there is NOTHING superficial about it.
Meth City did nothing the Cripples didn't do, beat the Spurs then choke away a 3-1 lead.
You looked to much into 2015 series when it was a season with the most bad coaching job season in history of any coach... You faild to understand how much scary thunder was even after all our history with them, you preferred them over Clippers with Blake coming to playoff injured, you are a stupid ...Meth City did nothing the Cripples didn't do, beat the Spurs then choke away a 3-1 lead.
Dumbass, I said Cripples w/ a HEALTHY Blake who was supposedly rehabbing before it was revealed otherwise two weeks before the start of the postseason. Last I checked, Blake killed the Spurs in 2015 so only an idiot would assume I said Cripples w/o a healthy Blake > Meth City.
Your dumbass is out here playing Monday Night QB when Blake/CP3 were knocked out of the 1st rd due to injuries. That would be the equivalent of me clowning folks for OKC losing to the Grizz in 2013 after WestBrick got injured in the 1st rd.
You lying, you still preferred thunder after Blake got injured in regular season...Dumbass, I said Cripples w/ a HEALTHY Blake who was supposedly rehabbing before it was revealed otherwise two weeks before the start of the postseason. Last I checked Blake killed the Spurs in 2015 so only an idiot would assume I said Cripples w/o a healthy Blake > Meth City.
Your dumbass is out here playing Monday Night QB when Blake/CP3 were knocked out of the 1st due to injuries. That would be the equivalent of me clowning folks for OKC missing the postseason in 2015 when Dominos missed 75% of the season.
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