Love Cason. Just 28 minutes of energy and defense. Dude knows his role, knows his game, love players like that. Not everyone needs to score 25. Dude is like Z Jrue

Damn imagine how depressed hed be if he got traded to the jazz or some shit lol

A winning percentage of 75.58% is ridiculous. I wonder who has the highest winning percentage in the regular season after three seasons, because if they keep on winning, he can have a winning percentage mid 80%, and that’s just insane.

I don’t know if we’re counting record in games he played or not. But James Michael McAdoo had a 207-39 record in his first 3 seasons.

If you set a minimum of like 70 games, all the players with the best career WL record are young guys who spent the last two years on the Thunder and all the worst are young Wizards.

Holy shit lmfao

Truly the best player on the best team

This hit me with big time nostalgia. I remember seeing stats like this all the time during the first few years of the Warriors dynasty

if he’d have a team of his own he be a star, imagine him on the Wizards?

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A championship already immortalized them

Meh, only if they win the finals again.

Thanks but the glazing will continue until your adjectives improve

SGA is a good player

Big if true

bum ass team gave up 89 points to close out their game in phoenix too

They lost 3 games in the Finals too. Total frauds

thinking about it in terms of losses. reducing a 58-win team’s losses from 24 to 22 isn’t too difficult but going from 14 to 12 is proportionally a bit harder. like saying going from 50 to 58 is pretty reasonable but 60 to 68 is getting into historically good territory

When looking at the youth of this team, the injuries they had last year, and the point differential they’re set up better than any team in history to win 70 games.

But historically it’s hard as fuck to do is OP’s point. The KD Warriors never did it, the Bird Celtics only got to 69 (some people claim this is the greatest team ever), The Magic Lakers Dynasty never sniffed it, Kobe and Shaq never sniffed it, MJ-Scottie-Rodman did it once.

You have to win a lot of games when your shots aren’t falling like usual, and find a way to win when the other team gets hot a bunch. You have to win with guys hurt. You gotta play through drama. You’ve got to take the other teams best punch almost every night. You’ve got to deal with the constant media attention. It’s one of the hardest team achievements in sports.

Their pre-season win over under was 62.5. So if they were expected to have 19 or 20 losses and they walk away with even 12 losses that’s still a major difference. It won’t be completely surprising, but it was by no means expected and it’s a massive deal.

You got to keep in mind that teams are going to try hard to beat them for pride. Being known as the team that contributed to one of their losses is gonna make it tough for the Thunder to break that 73 win record.

And they didn’t superteam, they built their roster just by their GM being smart as hell (and other GM’s not being). So watching them dominate is fun.

FTA?

Im sure theyll take their foot off the gas late into the season with the 1 seed clinched. Itll really come down to if limited starter minutes and the bench guys just keep getting dubs anyways and lol they probly will

What toll lol? Check their rotation. SGA plays 3 quarters a game and they have 14 players playing double digit minutes per game. They are doing this on cruise control

Pippen played nearly 37 minutes during that season.

OKC has one player playing above 30 mins thus far.

Also we won’t win 70+ games lol

They get away with it due to their youth and depth but honestly they don’t have another way to play since most of the roster either can’t create shots or make contested ones. They have to swarm on defense and run in transition to generate efficient offense. They play great together but they aren’t great in the half court since they’re mostly one-read players and their stars are sufficient but not extraordinary playmakers.

The Warriors main guys only missed a handful of games in that run, and OKC will have guys who’ve missed 12-15 games of the season before the ASG. SGA doesn’t play 4th quarters and they are so much better than 95% of NBA teams their 3rd string will still win them games.

The Bulls played a different era and the rules were much different about hard fouls and fouls in general. I don’t think this OKC team would have as many miles and stress as either of those 2 other teams.

the thunder don’t have a single player playing over 30mpg besides sga who is at a career low (ignoring his rookie season).

the thunder have also yet to be healthy 1 time this whole season - thought tonight will be the closest that we have been all year (only missing isaiah joe).

idk how better you can manage minutes and games played than what the thunder have done - and we have done it out of necessity rather than greed. the winning is just a side effect of playing good basketball

Honestly the level of talent across the board is so crazy high. Basically everyone on the roster is severely outplaying their contract. SGA could be injured for the rest of the season and they still get 65 wins. Or conversely if SGA stays healthy and the rest of the starters get injured they get to 65. Genuinely feels like they could walk into the record at this point. They might never lose again. I wasn’t around for the Warriors season so I don’t know how it felt then.

r/nbacirclejerk

I care. It’s pretty neat to me