OKC being out of title contention appreciation thread!

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Thunder fans please stop acting like you wouldn't take that trade back in a heart beat. Jeremy Lamb?? He spent the whole year in the D-League & Stephen Adams is gonna spend this year in the D-league. They traded arguably a top 15 NBA player for that?? Theyre gonna waste a few years when their championship window was open to develop guys who may not even pan out? Even Thunder management knows this didn't work out & they expected to get better talent with those picks.

If we get Dorrell Wright i could careless about the trade, if not yea i agree. Lamb will pan out Adams possibly he has a huge upside not worried about him right now.
 

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But try to act like Harden was a second rate nikka, compared to this career bum:beli:

On top of that OKC fans refuse to acknowledge that could've kept harden had they not resign perkins, and Ibaka, but want to use the money this and money that argument. Then they pretend Ibaka is still a far better choice despite Harden putting up MVP caliber stats:snoop:

OKC got rid of Harden before they actually tried to insert all 3 stars in the lineup to see how great they could play together, thats a franchise crippling L, horrible organization, and a shytty stupid coach to boot

Who said Harden wasn't good?

I obviously would have rather kept the core 4 together but it is what it is. Perk was signed years ago so I assume you mean we should have amnestied him. I would have been all for it but it still wouldn't have solved the problem of going into the luxury tax. Ibaka is making more than he should be, but again if he was making $2M less a season it wouldn't have solved the luxury tax problem. My only problem with the trade is I don't think Presti looked all around the league before agreeing with Houston.

The biggest problem with this trade is people see what Harden did last season in Houston & think he was going to do that in OKC. He wasn't going to do that just like the Miami big 3 weren't all going to do what they did before joining. What he did in Houston wasn't going to happen with Russy & KD around.

Brooks is a terrible coach. As far as franchise crippling, they just won 60 games & had a good shot at making it back to the Finals (before Russy went down) after trading away a superstar for a guy we used as nothing more than a jump shooter(which is all Lamb has to do). Thunder are going to be alright barring injuries.
 

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I'm content with adams, he looks like the best center in the draft imo.

looking at how well jackson and lamb have played, combined with adams being decent, i think okc woulda been my pick to win it all had they picked up michael beasley for the minimum like durant wanted them to
 
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