FreedS[ohh]lave;2039674 said:
Why do you folk keep sayin this? That's what Maynor is for. And Martin can create for himself.
A guy who's career averages of 4 ppg and 3 assists per game is gonna replace what Harden brought?
And im not sold on Kevin Martin i've seen dude play having to watch Houston play the Spurs 4 times a season. He's a volume shooter who got points on terrible teams. Cant defend and cant play off the ball and is nowhere near the creator that Harden is
and now look what happened. The moral of this story is if you want to be the champion you have to spend money. They never made it back to the finals after this trade. They had a natural talent who was already showing signs of elite scoring. You can't let him walk away and hope the other guys could fill up the needs. OKC thought they did that eddie jones and van exel type of trade that would let their two superstars shine without the excess of other ball demanding scorers. It was a miscalculation. And that's a huge karma considering they lost one star player for next years playoffs while having to deal with injuries two years later again, a situation in which Harden would have saved this team.
and now look what happened. The moral of this story is if you want to be the champion you have to spend money. They never made it back to the finals after this trade. They had a natural talent who was already showing signs of elite scoring. You can't let him walk away and hope the other guys could fill up the needs. OKC thought they did that eddie jones and van exel type of trade that would let their two superstars shine without the excess of other ball demanding scorers. It was a miscalculation. And that's a huge karma considering they lost one star player for next years playoffs while having to deal with injuries two years later again, a situation in which Harden would have saved this team.
And its also a karma how bennett who stole the team from seattle by giving fake ass promises in longer term ended up letting other teams rob him by taking away his star players. They may possible never come back to having 3 elite scorers ever again. A golden opportunity missed by a small market team that is actually in one of the worst places for an athlete in America
I don't know why replacing Harden with a bunch of no ones and a has been was expected to work. I do remember the damn over hype Lamb had decreasing more and more every season tho. nikkas thought he was gone be their great facilitator one daywow this thread backfired tremendeously
basically every positive okc predcition in here turned out to be wrong
oh they got kevin martin who fukkin sucked and left them in a year, then they was supposed to give lamb minutes and he ended up leaving okc too, then they said well perry jones will get the minutes and he is out of the league already.
They said okc won this for the long term
meanwhile harden is about to average big numbers this season. Cheap ass ownership tried to get smart with this and ended up destroying the whole team long term
