What was okc missing a years ago that made durant want to leave?
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At the end of the day, Westbrook is a ball dominant guard with no real feel for the game and a broke jumper. Combine that with the trash they trotted out at the 2 and no real offensive system you get basically no spacing on the court.
GS' backcourt is a significant upgrade at both positions. Better ball movement and just overall more solid style of play on both sides.
GS' backcourt is a significant upgrade at both positions. Better ball movement and just overall more solid style of play on both sides.
GPBear
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Casuals.
Take it from the top brehs, OKC blatantly stole that franchise, so from the jump any players on that team aren't going to feel the need to stay there their entire careers, because if the front office feels the need to jump around places, why can't the players.
Then they make it to the finals, with James Harden off the bench, Serge Ibaka, I think they had Kendrick Perkins at some point then what happens...
Harden goes to the Rockets because the Thunder frontoffice didn't want to come up with an additional $4 million dollars
That's why he left. The franchise doesn't care about loyalty, to the region it comes from, or to its players and doesn't pay them the money they deserve.
Then it replaces Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins with Stephen Adams and Enes Kantor
And on top of all this, it's in the middle of fukking Oklahoma for christ's sake.
No human being should be asked to spend any amount of time in Oklahoma. Let alone the prime years of your life, playing basketball for a bunch of white supremacists.
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Drip Bayless
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Another guy who only started watching Russ play this year. And he's a pretty good mid range shooter, he's just a below average 3p shooter
KillerB88
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Congrats. You found a fallacy. I shouldn't have used the word "most". Some would have been more appropriate. But I just hopped on bball reference as a refresher, and combining these box scores with my memory of the games just highlights how much KD shyt the bed that series. 42% from the field from Mr 50/40/90. He threw that series.Devil Plisken…CMS
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You're right...A league MVP should demand the ball and not be passive
Devil Plisken…CMS
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Why would they miss James when he has made a name for himself as an unreliable player in the clutch since leaving? OKC dominated The Dubs in every facet once they got home. They were more aggressive on both ends and it showed. Steph looked overwhelmed at times, Dray was rendered useless and it took one of the greatest playoff performances in Klay to get it to a game 7. The problem was always Kevin Durant. Larry, Dream, Magic, Kobe, Jordan, Shaq, Wade, Zeke, Chuck would not stand for their second in command not passing the rock to them or taking shots in crucial moments. This would have been nipped in the bud or a physical altercation would have ensued. Maybe the issue was Russ & KD needed to switch brains. This guy skipped town and was so scared to tell Russ he said why bother? lmao He said Kyrie was better than AI but he wanted to take it back because he didn't want problems with AI lmao You're a man. Stand on your word...your opinion is your opinion...It's really a microcosm of the boy. Great player tho
Casuals.
Take the it from the top brehs, OKC blatantly stole that franchise, so from the jump any players on that team aren't going to feel the need to stay there their entire careers, because if the front office feels the need to jump around places, why can't the players.
Then they make it to the finals, with James Harden off the bench, Serge Ibaka, I think they had Kendrick Perkins at some point then what happens...
Harden goes to the Rockets because the Thunder frontoffice didn't want to come up with an additional $4 million dollars
That's why he left. The franchise doesn't care about loyalty, to the region it comes from, or to its players and doesn't pay them the money they deserve.
Then it replaces Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins with Stephen Adams and Enes Kantor
And on top of all this, it's in the middle of fukking Oklahoma for christ's sake.
No human being should be asked to spend any amount of time in Oklahoma. Let alone the prime years of your life, playing basketball for a bunch of white supremacists.
That franchise gets everything it deserves. Clay Bennett is such a piece of shyt.
fukk the thunder
The only thing that was missing was the easy route and sure thing- path to a ring
Pure Water
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Ain't no bytches in OKC.
Kings County
Law III | Law XXV | Law XV
nikka knew if he went to any other team he was gonna have to work hardhe knew if he went to the warriors. It's the most stacked team in the modern era and it was gon be a cake walk
The floor spacing is unarguable. If you put the 1st all defensive team vs them they'd still put up 130
He won a ring for a team, city that he had no ties to so he wont be a legend there bron won it in his hometown and did something no other team had done come back from a 3-1 that one win means more than if golden state wins the next 3-4 championships
nikka wanted his ring so he did what he had to do
but theres a trade off nikkas wont really care about him unless he goes back to okc or to his hometown dc
#FashionKingProbably didn't wanna live in OKC and play with this angry clown anymore.
TrebleMan
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Like other breh said, the ball moves on GS. They had 400+ more assists than the next team in the season. That's at least 800+ points from assists from the next team. They've scored 9503 total points in the season, 2490 in assists meaning at least 47% of their points came off assists.
OKC in contrast is bottom 5 in the league at 769 assists. That's at least 1500+ more points from assists that GS has.
The shooting and defense is also greatly better.
Versatility also.
OKC in contrast is bottom 5 in the league at 769 assists. That's at least 1500+ more points from assists that GS has.
The shooting and defense is also greatly better.
Versatility also.
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