Do you feel like the Thunder’s historic season is getting enough attention?

[Roid Jones]

Face of the league

Team of the decade

 

[Taadow]

I literally have not been paying any attention to basketball since opening night.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

If they would play ball without the BS, then they might get respect

 

[Big Mountain Hélà]

 

[bl2k8]

I would say that guys like Shai, Giannis and Jokic are living proof that NBA “fans” are fickle bytches who don’t actually know what they want. So much complaining about 3 point spam and the death of post/mid range game and yet these 3 are the best players in the league doing none of those things.

Shai lives in the mid range and has a lot of the Kobe footwork you dudes drool over. Yeah yeah free throws guess what MJ, Kobe, Wade all them mfs were on the same timing. Jokic a low post god who can score at all levels and distribute. Giannis is basically the love child of Shaq and LeBron.

Despite all that, mfs claim the new crop of stars are “boring”. And that’s your main reason the OKC chatter isn’t there.

nikkas also used to complain NBA lacks parity, favors big markets, and every season you know who’s gonna win but we have data that consistently show that fans prefer big market dynasties and the thrill that comes from hoping an underdog can take them down. The league has had like 7 diff champions in the last 7 years or some shyt with many of them being small market teams and interest is at its lowest in a while.

Silver needs to figure out what it is about basketball in particular that causes these fickle fans who “age out” when the gen they like is old and gone.

The we need parity group and the these stars are boring group are two different sets of nba fans.

Silver listened to a loud minority with the parity shyt and now we have all these dumb ass apron rules.

As far as the boring complaints. Shai is playing like Kobe and MJ when they were in their early 30s not mid 20s and still doesn’t have the explosiveness/flair they had at that age. Somebody in here already mentioned this. There’s a reason Ant fans are begging for him to add a shai/kobe/mj type bag to his game

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

They are 23-1, winners of 15 straight, winning by 15 plus every night. When the warriors broke the bulls record in 2016, so you remember it being a bigger deal?

Nobody cares until you win the ring...

GS nobody cared... They talked about it but the main point was, even after breaking it................ "It don't mean a thing without the ring"


And still, nobody cares about that team... Cause they didn't fukking win

 

[JoelB]

SGA is not Steph

/thread

 

[Blackrogue]

the bigger story is they might break the 73-9 record AND have a top 3 pick

It's worse than that They might break that record, get a top 3 pick AND they still have two more first rounders next year aside from that potential top 3, AND the last lotto picks in Sorber and Jokic have been injured and haven't even played. AND they are beating people with a wide margin despite missing main guys at points AND they are not even in that 27-30 age range which is their prime. They are collectively three years from their prime.

OKC did this with Harden, KD and Russ getting there way early.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

OKC is just such a boring team to watch. It’s like watching the Tush push all day.

 

[mvp_status]

We just seen the Cavs start last year 33-4 and get smoked in the 2nd round

It's mad early to call this a historic season

 

[Formerly known as...]

Too early to mean anything right now. Season still young.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Just won by 49 points

 

[fifth column]

We just seen the Cavs start last year 33-4 and get smoked in the 2nd round

It's mad early to call this a historic season

They the defending champs, it’s different

 

[Michael's Black Son]

81-1

 

[In The Zone '98]

Keep your foot on the gas. Goal should be to sweep the playoffs