Rox over the hump. OKC’s season finally started, Denver’s will soon. And watch out for… the Kings?

We havent beat any healthy good/Top teams. I would love to say we look like contenders but we dont. Its not just schedule.

 

SOS doesn’t really matter for OKC

Jalen Williams is their 2nd best player, and he didn’t even play the 1st 19 games of the season…they still went 18-1 with a +17 point differential

their 2 losses have both been by 2 points

SGA hasn’t even played in 14 4th quarters

catching them just seems like cope

we’ve got a game against Denver tomorrow…let’s see if we can get some much needed revenge

 

This thread is talking about the race for the 1st seed and remaining SOS is it not?

If it is, why is the Pacers taking them to 7 games in the NBA finals relevant at all? OKC won a whopping 68 games last year and will likely win just as many games in the regular season yet again at the very least.

If we’re talking about remaining SOS, why are you talking about what they did on the road last postseason? One, that was last year, and 2, regular season and postseason are 2 completely different things.

 

I don't mind the matchup with the OKC. It's the Spurs who are coming. If our younger players don't improve their shooting (especially Sengun), I don't see this group beating SA very often.

 

the Thunder were 32-8 on the road last season…what happened during the postseason has no bearing on how they fare during the regular season

OKC was also 31-10 against teams above .500 last season

Why would any of those things be different for them this regular season? Because the Pacers took them to 7 games and they lost some road games in Denver in the 2nd round?

 

Chet played just 32 games last season, and they were still a 68 win team with the highest point differential in NBA history

OKC is just dominant in the regular season…it is what it is

our real challenge is staying ahead of Denver…we need HCA in the 2nd round

 

Yeah if we can beat a full strength Denver by a nice margin then I migth say we're contenders. We havent beat anyone at their level this season.

 

Will we even play full strength Denver this season? It will be a while before Gordon/braun are back

 

His biggest strength is how natural his flopping is. A lot of guys when they flop, you can tell they are making a conscious decision to do it so it looks idiotic (think jokic, sengun, lebron back in the day). I think why shai isn’t getting the hate he should get is because of how natural of a flopper he is. On offense he’s easily the most ref reliant player i’ve seen, would be interesting to see if he could adjust if he has to play for real.

 

No, because FVV won’t be back this season. And we are out at least DFS and maybe Tari. Those are at least as impactful as any Denver injuries except Jokic

 

Why are you worried about that? We have 1 non-shooter in our healthy lineup. Sengun is 40%. Amen has dramatically improved his FT% and worked on his jumper, so I expect another year before he's below average from 3 and we're off. He's exactly the same calibre shooter as Harper right now and I would put money on Amen improving within this season in alignment with his FT improvement.

Castle and Harper suck balls at shooting at the moment and there's no positive signs. Fox is a below average shooter too. They don't have any talented big wings so those are their key perimeter guys and none of them are excellent defenders either. Spurs are a next year team. Like OKC and Houston, their first go-round in the playoffs will be disappointing.

Spurs and OKC are going to our rivals for years to come for sure. Right now I'm only worried about Jokic though. Wemby has to have an amazing game to beat us. Jokic just needs an average game to beat us and we have no way of slowing him down whatsoever. None of Sengun, Adams or Capela are decent at guarding him. There's no reason he doesn't average 40 against us. Wemby or SGA likely won't average 30 against us in a playoff series. It's a world of difference.

 

Gimme a break, no NBA player is jumping into other people's feet on purpose without looking down. Can end your career instantly like that.

Why do fans believe anything that goes viral. I get it now how religion was used to control people. Most people don't know they're led.

Btw I'm not saying SGA doesn't receive MVP treatment from refs - just like Harden did and you ignored everyone that was complaining online - I'm just saying this one is completely nitpicking. No one is trying to get 2 FT's at the cost of their ankles.