Thunder have 2 MVP's type players ..... 2 of the top 7 players in the NBA

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2 man teams can still work. All it takes is a good coach/system

I mean just look at Golden State. A team full of good passers/shooters and Mark Jackson had them playing ISO ball. Kerr comes in, sees the personnel and implements a system that plays to their strengths and all of a sudden go from a talented but underachieving squad to goat status

Warriors are not a two man show. In any given game, they can get major contribution from livingston, barnes, iggy, barbosa, speights. They adjust to the other team's defense and find the open man. Yes they have two great shooters in the system, but their system is team ball.
 

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Warriors are not a two man show. In any given game, they can get major contribution from livingston, barnes, iggy, barbosa, speights. They adjust to the other team's defense and find the open man. Yes they have two great shooters in the system, but their system is team ball.

That's called role players playing their role and stepping up when needed. If they aren't a 2-man show (I'll give you 2.5), Dirk's teams were LOADED.

Any team with a superstar plays heavy iso ball. If you're not gonna play iso ball, there's no point in having a superstar. It's really the offense and/or defense that you implement and the type of players you want to compliment your superstar. Even the Spurs were an iso team for 2/5 of their chips. They used to give it to Duncan and let him work. Ginobili is nothing but an isolation player. Kicking the ball out to the open man out the perimeter after you've gotten into the paint is still isolation.

There's no excuse for Westbrook and Durant. They have 2/4 players in the league, so they should be Shaq/Kobe.
 

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Everyone loves okc. Even on the coli. Let the rockets or cavs get blown out. Then it gets entertaining, as we saw with the rockets last series.

My team is out so I'm all in for okc too though. :manny:
 
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It's not in the sense that I can't see them every hoisting the Larry O'Brien trophy in OKC together. Just don't see it and it has NOTHING to do with this series against SA. I've felt this way for the past few seasons.

And stop quoting and not saying nothing. You're better than that :ufdup:
That quote only warranted a smilie - nothing more. I still don't understand why dudes keep pushing this silly shyt that they can't play together or that they can't win together. It's getting quite tiresome.

:manny:
 

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Y'all gotta accept that Russy and KD just isn't going to work. It's just NOT. I've come to accept it

This.... the moment Kahwi came into form and SA went and picked up Aldridge, OKC's window closed. Their window was 3 years ago. They blew the first opportunity, then injury decimated the next 2....

This team is defensively worst than the Scott Brooks era and it still doesn't have a concrete offensive team identity(outside of ISO ball), an issue Donovan was hired to fix.

It's over..... KD is gone..... or he may do a Kobe/Shaq ordeal.
 
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Davis too injury prone
Paul can't win when it counts
Harden fukk NO

Davis is injury prone u rite. But healthy he should fit in there.

Could Westbrook win when it counts? The blame cant really be put on Paul...he's done everything possible.

Lol Harden gets flack for his defense but he is so dominant on the otherwise it doesn't matter. He gives u 29 pts, 8assists, 6 Rebs on a decent % and leads the league in FTs breh. The man almost just won MVP last year.

I think any of them can fit in your list:manny:
 
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