If Green even approaches that production at age 22 it will surpass the current consensus. Hopefully he makes the same progress Alexander has made.
Meh I'm usually not a fan of signing someone to a big contract without securing your main star first. There's paths and ways to make it work and I don't doubt Presti could get something done
Idk if it’s just bias with SGA because he was the 11th pick in the draft and isn’t super fast or athletic, but the numbers he put up in his 3rd season were simply phenomenal, and he can still continue to get better…if Jalen Green put up those numbers in his 3rd year, he’d be getting a max extension without question who knows what SGA will be averaging 3 or 4 years from now OKC finished 22-50 this past season, but had a 16-19 record with Shai in the lineup, so the impact is there as well
How much of that is just being on a bad team? Does it matter if he shoots lights out and they lose by more than 10? The assumption is that he'd be the same player, or close to it, on a competitive team. I actually think the answer to that is no, he wouldn't.
Most people are forgetting that OKC actually had Shai fake an injury because they were winning too many games midway into the season. If their plan worked out and they got a top 3 pick for Mobley or something to pair with him they'd be looking great. They got a bad draw and that pushed back their timeline. Shai deserves every cent.
OKC and Presti are being predictable and smart. Everyone knows what they know. No max FA is ever going there. Look at how far the Spurs are about to fall without those picks. They have nothing. Presti needs lightning to strike again and the only that can happen is with all those picks. He is going to have to get more SGAs and trade for a star in distress. He NEEDS that ammo. He also can only recycle so many Kemba's and Horfords and CP3s. He needs to get minutes to his young guys and he stopped getting more young players because he cannot find them minutes. We need to jettison Wall, EGo, and Augustin ASAP or we are going to lose a lot of development time.
