RANKING OKC THUNDER PLAYOFF ROTATION | NBA MVP Race | How OKC Can Survive The Week
The Oklahoma City Thunder have a crowded potential playoff rotation. If this OKC Thunder team gets healthy, they can be able to go 11-13 players deep even in the NBA Playoffs. How will Mark Daigneault manage the depth? Who will the Thunder elect to start alongside Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein? Has Cason Wallace surpassed Lu Dort? Where does Jared McCain fit into all of this? Is Isaiah Joe’s hot stretch sustainable? What does Ajay Mitchell provide to a playoff run? Is Alex Caruso one of the team’s most valuable pieces? Justin Martinez of the Oklahoman drops by to discuss this topic and more with Locked on Thunder host Rylan Stiles. Plus, the duo dives into the fact that the NBA MVP race is heating up, will Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic remain eligible for the NBA MVP award? Who would step up in their place? Plus, the Bricktown Ballers week ahead.
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Wallace is the dude
So my hot take is that if you drop LU from the starting lineup he plummets to 10 in the line up. He drops below AJ Mitchell and McCain and Caruso and probably Isaiah Joe because in the absence of his on-ball man-to-man defence against the best player the impact of his skill set is diminished greatly.
I think you start Cason and if we’re genuinely talking play-offs, then Caruso is six. He has to be ahead of Mitchell and McCain because while both of them are amazing players, play-off Caruso is on another level completely. Can score comparable to either to during playoff sand arguably is one of the only players in the league at the moment who can single-handedly blow up the entire offence of the other side. It’s what drives his ridiculous plus minus that regularly exceeded Shai last playoffs.
The players outside the rotation imo are Wiggins, Kenrich Williams, Topic, and of course Sorber. Possibly the most talented roster ever top to bottom.
IM GLAD IM NOT COACH MARK😳 TOUGH DECISIONS but I think he would go 11 or 12 deep in the Playoffs
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