Another ugly loss where there wasn’t much defense or resistance by the Thunder. Very tough to watch this complete humiliation of the players out there having to ‘perform’ at this level. I won’t call it human sex trafficking any longer. I don’t want the prudish moderator from the Daily Thunder to go off on another moral guardian-laced lecture of my word usage.
Shai was horrible last night. It didn’t even really look like he cared. Why should he?
Rookie Aaron Wiggins from Maryland had a nice game. I’m bullish on Aaron. I think he could evolve into a solid two-way player for the Thunder or someone else in the league.
There’s some nice young promising players on the roster, but I mean at some point you need to put a legitimate NBA roster together and see what you have when you’re actually trying to win games and make the playoffs. some team building and chemistry need to occur. These pretend games are just that…they’re pretend fantasy games.
I’ll go out on a limb for you people who think the Thunder are going to win an NBA Championship if they tank from now till the end of time:
“It’s not happening. OKC is not only a small market, but one which is viewed as an inferior small market by elite veteran players in the league. This means the window is so narrow…it would take a perfect storm on steroids for this to occur.”
Off the top of my head…I’m trying to think when a small market teamclast won a championship in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or the NHL.
I don’t consider Kansas City a small market so that wipes out the Chiefs and KC Royals winning championships somewhat recently.
I don’t consider Tampa a small market any longer either so that wipes out the Lightning and Bucs winning rings of late.
Cleveland from my view isn’t a small market.
San Antonio? Do we consider that last championship in 2014 a small market triumph? Maybe.
I’m not writing this to put down small markets because I love living in ether a small or medium market. I hate traffic, all the congestion, the smog, etc.
But enough of this nonsense by Sam Presti and these Thunder people. You’re not winning an NBA championship unless you’ve learned a truckload from the last four years of the Kevin Durant era, and probably not even then as well.
I’m going to finish with how I rank Sam Presti’s roster assets as of this writing. Like I was someone taking over for him and turning all this losing into playoff contention next season.
1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
2 Josh Giddey
3 Lottery pick this summer, a big who can shoot
4 Lu Dort
5 Tre Mann
6 Aaron Wiggins
7 Poku
8 a solid vet player, a big who can bang and protect the rim
9 Kenrich Williams
10 Darius Bazely
11 Isaiah Roby
12 Ty Jerome
13 Jerome Robinson-Earl
14 Mike Muscala /player coach, limited minutes
15 Theo Maledon
I think the framework is there to have a nice team in Oklahoma City which the fans can be proud of. But this nonsense the Thunder are the Green Bay Packers of the NBA is just that…nonsense. Come to terms with your realistic prism of sustainability. Strive for that which is attainable.