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Lmao!!!!! Heat won a chip BEFORE Lebron got there (2006). Riley knows what hes doing. Dork Elvis has no clue
KD ain't staying in OKC. He's sore about the Harden trade and will never get over it. If he had to do it all over again, KD wouldn't lock into 5 years without an option after 4. Stay in denial all you want, but they aren't going anywhere the next couple of years, KD will walk, the Thunder will be an irrelevant franchise thereafter and nobody outside of OKC will care about them. They will become Milwaukee south.
Between the time they'd won that championship and Lebron signing there, they'd done nothing, even gone so far as wasting a #2 pick (which as you'd be aware, you get from being very very bad)
How the hell is this an argument, the Rox won two rings BEFORE Howard and Harden got there. Also it seems pretty ridiculous you'd say Dork Elvis doesn't know what he's doing when he just got DH, Harden, Parsons, Lin and Asik on a team without using any top 5 lottery picks. Presti had Durant in year 1 of OKC, and 5 years later and several top 5 picks later they still haven't won a ring
Just keep telling yourself Jeremy Lamb is better at Harden before you go to bed, maybe one day the fairy god mother will answer your prayers.
I think it goes something like this: 1) Make it to the WCF once or twice, never get back to the finals 2) Lose Durant and Westbrook in free agency 3) Trade Ibaka for pennies on the dollar, watch him turn into an all star with another franchise 4) Fans lose interest and org starts bleeding money 5) Ownership group sells the franchise and the new owner moves it back to Seattle where it belongs
As long as they have Perkins, they are in trouble. He has no value on the court or as a trade chip as long as he is not expiring. Their cap situation is not looking good at all. Adams and Lamb look promising but how competitive can they be with them? Unless one or both step up in a major way, then it's still going to be on Durant and Westbrook. Ibaka is good but you can't run offense through him. He blocks a lot of shots, but he is only a slightly above average rebounder (8rph) and post defender. Omer beat him in the post in the playoffs at times. And who knows how patient Durant will be when he keeps seeing Lebron winning everything, Harden and the Rockets improving, and so on? The Thunder have been the only team that hasn't made positive moves since their Finals appearance. And unless you're the Spurs, you must keep improving to win.
I don't think they would have beaten the Spurs even with Westbrook. Parker was playing at a superstar level in the playoffs and they were not going to beat the Heat anyway. The Thunder play really selfishly. Granted, when you have Durant and Westbrook, playing selfishly can look good but you won't win championships like that. The Thunders offense when the game gets close is "give the ball to Durant and get the ***** out of the way!" Really good teams, like the Spurs and Heat, will focus on Durant and make things hard for him to score and even get the ball. (Doesn't hurt having Lebron and Leonard to guard him either). And we all know how sporadic Westbrook is during tight moments. He will either be almost lucky good or really really bad. He isn't dependable.
Durant avged 30ppg on 50% shooting on both Leonard and Lebron. They can't guard him. No one can. Spurs didnt win one game in OKC last yr and we had home court. We wouldve sent them home again and they know it. We lost because Harden decided not to show up. Westbrook and Durant did
Durant is unguardable. You people saw how we had 4 damn guys collapsing on him whenever in the playoffs, but still torched us
