People are forgetting,...
The thunder are coached by Billy Donovan.
Who is the highest actualized and pedigreed NCAA based and successful nba coach who ramped of this Gen and he also has hardware in the most extreme circumstances after the high school and one and done rules were effective to completely alter the ncaa bball landscape as well.
Not to mention with the possible via collusion compromised asset of kd in okc. almost beat Gs with lesser fire power.
now, Donovan has two of the top forwards in the league by pedigree and skill.
Which includes ramping ability behind a superstar with a similar skill set in pg. After a stint behind and ramping up at the Same time of dual potentcy. effectively as a tandem with an all star granger before injury similar to Carmelo via senority.
Including melo being one of the very few to convert a NCAA title via freshman pedigree during the straight to hs rule era and being lebron's actual rival as well.
People must not have a vast or large pedigree with bball to think gs has this cake walk into the finals via a west coast playoff bracket.
The thunder are completely under-estimated by the general consensus.
Of which I believe is because they do not know the pedigree of the principal players or coaches very well in this discussion.
This whole under-estimation of what the thunder are even on paper via pedigree are completely short sighted.
by the so-called general bball community and its current think tanks.
On paper the warriors only have two pedigreed parts incomparison and on the level of Melo, Russ and pg13.
just the complete oversight by the collective on this is a trip.
Art Barr