What do you mean? The thunder has the easiest schedule for the rest of the year lol. Every team is essentially easy for the thunder

I don’t think it’s an easy schedule. They have played B2B 3 times. They beat up the Lakers and Warriors on back-to-back nights. Houston has played three fewer games and has easier opponents

They are very clearly in their own tier as the best team in the league by a good margin. Yet I would definitely still bet on the field winning the chip over just OKC. My hope as a warriors fan is that the spurs or wolves or something upset okc or denver and we only have to beat 1 of the 2 to win the west.

And without their 2nd best player

Because Chet missed so much of last year and they still won at a 70win pace with a all time defense and also was recovering while he came back so didn’t look as good everyone acted like it was a fact he was 3rd on their squad lol no Chet is the 2 most important player and this is what defense looks like with a real DPOY candidate. 

Injured for like 10 games, Wemby should still be the frontrunner, it’s just a classic overreaction. But even besides that, Chet is currently on a tear defensively. Although OKC wasn’t really reliant on him the previous two years (their defense was as good without him as they were with him), he’s currently at -6.2 on/off. They go from 106 DRTG to an insane 100 DRTG with him.

Dort has also missed a bunch of games and he was first team all defence last year

They’re so stacked it’s crazy and they still got the deepest war chest in the league.

If these Thunders don’t become a dynasty nobody can under these new rules.

Agree. Would be a massive f-you to the big teams that think they can just poach/buy a team constantly.

I’d love to see it (Canadian b-ball fan here)

To be fair to the Clippers, I don’t think anyone expected Shai to turn into the player he is. He was a late lotto pick with a pretty decent first season.

It’s annoying how good they are though and still they have a ton of future picks.

My only hope is that we can snag one more in the Jokic era and maybe having Shai and JDub on super maxes kills the rest of the roster (it won’t)

Gonna have to really pay to keep those boys in a couple years tho. Every team struggles w that. Even w how many they drafted

I’ll pass. Too many fts for sga and Brunson. Can’t watch either

I think the scariest thing is the team getting older and more mentally locked in. They won a ring whilst not playing anywhere close to their potential. Obviously some drop off is to be expected going into the playoffs, but they were extremely poor for large chunks of the playoffs. And they just out talented everyone anyway.

That’s freaky.

That series was always a collision of Championship pedigree vs. More talented young team. God it was a stressful watch.

And then G1 happened. That was an absolute brain explosion and poor execution down the stretch that could have cost them. Ultimately G2, G5 and G7 were more illustrative of the gap between the teams (last year due to Nuggets roster). 

It will be a battle Royale again this year, but im confident largely because im very confident THJ and JV will get played off the floor. That’s not to say we won’t lose, but we are so much better offensively this years, there isn’t a comparison.

It was their youth, inexperience and hardly ever playing a close game last year. Feels like they already had more close games this year. I love watching them play. Hope thunder and nuggets have another round this year.

I see a lot of the players still referencing that series especially the zone. Built a lot of confidence when they got out of that but Nuggets also got better. Interested to see what Adelman cooks up this time

Two buzzer beaters that i still have aaron gordon nightmares about

1. Jokic is a game changer that is hard to defend.

2. Like most of the playoffs, OKC couldn’t hit the broad side of the barn from 3

Man we were up on the trailblazers by like 20 in the first quarter. Then we lost the game lol

They also play disciplined defense, never get caught in the air for fouls. Disciplined all-around.

idk they just have the best bench in the league

Last season alone already puts them in the conversations for one of the best seasons of all time.

#1 point differential in history, #2 best net rating, #3 best defense compared with league average, #6 best record of all time, won the title with a 8.6 netrating in the playoffs. Their playoff play dropped offensively, but that netrating is still one of the best ever for a title winner.

They made their lives harder with some choked losses vs Indy and specially Denver, but they still made it work

If they follow up with a season of the same caliber or even better, it’s undeniable that they are one of the best teams of all time and it’s not really debatable. The fact that if they win 70+ no one is really that surprised should tell you enough about how good they are

Not Portland xD

In the last month? The season started just less than a month ago…

I love the Raps as much as the next guy… but stop it.

Nah we don’t need any more guards lol. Need to continue developing ajay and still waiting on topic

he sucks

This is something you say about the 13-2 Detroit Pistons, not the reigning champions who won 68 games the previous season.

Lakers are a good team my guy. Rockets too.