OKC Are Doing Something the NBA Has NEVER Seen Before..
OKC Are Doing Something the NBA Has NEVER Seen Before..
The OKC Thunder are on a 15-game winning streak, holding the top seed in the West. They boast the NBA’s best defense and lead the league in net rating, all while missing one of their best players, Chet Holmgren.
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Has this 15 game win streak cemented the Thunder as the best team in the NBA?
Their adjusted net rating is 12.04, next team down is Celtics with 9.65 😮
I think they’re the most likely to win. With Chet and Alex Caruso out there’s a good chance they won’t be less healthy in playoffs – even if someone else gets hurt before then, you got those two guys coming back. Just as long as it’s not SGA.
I honestly think even Jdub could get hurt and they’d still win, provided everyone else was healthy. Starting 5 of SGA, Caruso, Dort, Chet, Ihart. Or maybe there’s someone better than Caruso.
And they have so many top draft picks to come 🤯
Craziest part is Chet and Ihart haven’t played together. OKC hasn’t played at its full potential yet. Besides experience I don’t think they have one fault when healthy. 8-2 with Chet (8-1 in games Chet played the full game).
Chet’s stats: 16.4 PPG- 8.7 RPG- 2.4 APG- 2.6 BPG, with 50.5 FG%, 37.8 3P% in just 26.5 minutes a game
So now imagine the endless possibilities with line ups,
Being able to have 2 big man line ups when teams try and play big with us, being able to play with Chet as a main big man to stretch the floor and open the paint. Being able to always have a big on the floor by rotating both.
Being able to assign Durt, Caruso, Cason Wallace even J dub, to be able to lockdown other teams wings/gaurds
Chet or ihart being able to give weak side help in the paint on bigs or drivers.
Leading shot blockers back, less wear and tear on Chet now he doesn’t always have to bang with the big men he can play that unicorn role better as his body grows.
We don’t have to worry that when our big man goes to the bench that teams are gonna do what they’ve been doing the last 2 years which is make our gaurds have to foul or risk fouls when posted up deep by a larger big.
We have small ball line ups, all defensive line ups, twin tower line ups, 5 out offence line ups, offensive shooting line ups, balanced line ups, pick and roll line ups, big man facilitating the offence line ups. When fully healthy.
Our defence is like that now without Caruso a lot of the times and Chet imaging getting that veteran defender and our leading shot blockers back how much that defence will get even better.
Can run Chet and j dub or J dub and ihart when shais on the bench. Can run Shai and Chet or Shai and ihart when j dubs on the bench. When the offence slows down line ups won’t be our worry anymore.
okc has the potential to put out any line up so they can gameplan against you but you can’t game plan against them. And yet they have all these picks and can add anyone they want to let that sink in. And our offence hasn’t even Been clicking yet. And oh don’t forget OKC is still the youngest team in league average….
Love OKC but waiting in the second half to perform will not aways work against other teams. The Bucks is a reminder to that fact.
Worst case scenario for NBA ratings:
Cavaliers
vs
OKC
in the finals. only real NBA fans would relish something like this happening!!!
We ain't lose because of experience in the playoffs it was offensive rebounding that why presti went and got hartienstein we lost game six off a offensive rebound or series go 7 back in okc thunder winning it all this yr
It blows my mind that player of the week was given to Jokic. SGA's thunder beat Minnesota, Clippers, New York and Boston. He averaged 34 on 52% from the field and 3, while playing hard defence.
Theyre absolutely terrifying
SGA being the Thunder's weak link on defence is like Jaylen Brown being the Celtics' weakest link. Good luck with that shit.
Last year the problem was they only had 1 great big man, if they had another 6'10 or taller guy that had some size to him they could have won it all. There's not a doubt in my mind OKC can win it this year
There’s no way jokic got player of the week over SGA! I stg the league is trying to pick jokic into mvp meanwhile SGA out here earning it. What a joke
We gotta put some respect on the coach too i think he is really important
1:47 really? I'd argue Shai is the second best defender in the starting 5
I think you run Chet as the starting center and then have Isaiah Hartenstein come off the bench and you can sometimes have them run a lineup together because it doesn't hurt to try something new. Also I think if Chet is a little to slow footed I think he can adapt because he is still relatively young
It’s the highest level of casual to say “too young to perform”. we got beat in the playoffs because we had 2 big weaknesses. Rebounding/ size: addressed with Ihart, and a bad defender/ shooter: addresssed with replacing giddey.
0:55 massive you say?👀
Can't wait to see them play my Cavs tonight. Let's go CAVSSS ⚔️
? Last post season ended in a foul that Shai could have not drawn and it wouldn’t have gone in. Last post season couldn’t have been less about them “not being ready” if they wrote it out. Idk why there’s all this revisionist history about the playoffs last season. I guess I do, you don’t want to take the swing because you haven’t seen enough because the NBA has been shoving generic 3 chucking games down your throat because it isn’t about the game, it’s about the market for them.
Get ready to admit you’re wrong about experience, buddy.
The Thunder are very impressive this year. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get to the finals or at least make a deep playoff run. If I were an OKC fan my main concern would be they’re taking the regular season way too seriously and playing way too hard and are going to end up with a lot of injuries come playoff time. I’m not saying that’s going to happen but I’ve watched quite a few of their games and they’re playing a lot of them like it’s a game 7 win or go home scenario. It could pay off but it’s not typically sustainable with this much basketball left in the regular season.
The thing with OKC line up, is they aren't static. The double big line up comes in for a couple of plays, maybe to stop bigs your opponent has, then maybe they go back to all guards to go fast. Or swap out one big. That's the key to OKC. Know Your Personnel (KYP) is a defensive strategy, and OKC shakes it up to be unpredictable, and to stop the other teams personnel.
This is a new era of basketball and things are changing quickly. I think the Thunder are poised to accomplish something shocking this season. Yes, they can win it all. 🏆
Move Chet to the 4, iHart to 5. As much as I admire Chet, I'm afraid he gets out bodied and boxed out easily due to his body size.
Sayin SGA is the weakest link defensively is absurd. Mans is 2nd in defensive rating. 6 of the top 10 are OKC players lol.
Do you realize, all three guys in the thumbnail, were property of the Los Angeles Clippers? Every year we are told that Ballmer is the best owner and that they have the best personnel in the league. Are you kidding me!? What type of GM trades SGA, Gallo and 5 first round picks for Paul George? One of those picks was J. Williams and they did not retain I. Hartenstein.
Too inexperienced? OKC's Alex Caruso already has an NBA Championship ring, and Isaiah Hartenstein is 26 years old.
So they're 30-5, and 19-1 in their last 20 games. Meaning they were 10-4 to start the season. Winning 71% is pretty darn good, which would be 58 wins on the year, but then they win 95% of the next 20 games they play. That's insane.
they got beat by the mavs because they lacked size. they addressed that last offseason. hope everyone stays healthy
SGA is just so consistent❤
theyre gonna run chet at the 4 with hart in the same role
Great vid but one thing you said stuck to me sayin dort was great offensively all around the game was just incorrect he went 0/3 3pt first half and a total of 20% 2pts other than that he clutched up
There is definitely the question of playoff experience coming into play again, however last year most of the team had little to no playoff experience. Now that’s changed, since this is the squad that played together last year. Plus the addition of two guys who both have playoff experience. I think they have enough to make the finals. They might not win it all this year, but I think it’s only a matter of time. If not this year it will certainly be next year that this group is fully established, experienced, and tested. It’s only a matter of execution in the big moments but they certainly have the right pieces. Not to mention if they need to make some adjustments to their squad, they pretty much have control of the trade market for the next decade.