Jared McCain since joining okc: 13/3/1 on 50/50/92 splits 4-1 record
Last 5 games as an okc thunder Jared McCain is averaging
13 points
3 rebounds
1 assists
50% FG
50% 3pt
92% free throws
Okc has a 4-1 record
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/jared-mccain-last-5-games
This kid was never bad dont understand the trade
I don’t either but I like it
He was pretty bad before the trade. Not many small guards that can’t play defense who’ll stay in the league scoring 7ppg on 50% TS
He’s also never going to be a starter for the 76ers as they have 3 guards who are better than him on both ends of the court
Bro he’s not going to be a starter for us either and yet this is an excellent player to have
Yeah, he seems like he’ll be really good.
Like, even better than Isaiah Joe good.
Congrats. Happy for you.
I’m glad he’s doing better and I think we should have gotten more for him if we were selling. But he’s going to get more minutes in OKC for sure.
You are narrowly under tax line and have about $63m kicking in from JDub and Chet extensions next year, with 3-4 FRPs this year. You will be almost 40m over the 2nd Apron for next season as constructed currently.
I’m expecting a mini fire sale in OKC this offseason, with Isaiah Joe and Lu Dort leaving. McCain was probably a cost controlled replacement for both. There’s a real chance he is your 3rd guard, and first one off the bench from next season on.
Nah he’s still behind Ajay
Maybe, but will Ajay still be there? The ones I’m definitely expecting to leave are:
-Kenrich TO declined
-Joe dump
-Jaylin trade
-Dort either TO decline or trade
-Topic trade
Those at minimum will be moved imo. But that’s still not enough, and you’re still a 2nd Apron team after using all FRPs and SRPs. With the ownership’s track record, I’m not sure they will be comfortable being $30m over LT line, and be a 2nd Apron team. Should probably expect more to leave or be dumped and replaced with SRPs or vet mins.
I mean this respectfully, but you don’t know wtf you’re talking about.
Probably not, but there’s a real chance Ajay is starting next year if the team decides to move on from Dort, Cas and Caruso contracts
yeah you definitely don’t know what you’re talking about considering the Caruso contract is set up perfectly with these extensions for Chet and Dub and Wallace is literally on a rookie deal
Ajay is under contract til 2028 at $3M a season
The ownership’s track record is paying $60 million in tax for a mediocre russ/pg team at the end of the last era.
That was the highest luxury tax payment in history at the time.
Yeah you are just not informed enough. There will be moves, but it wont be nearly as dramatic as you think
He was coming back from a meniscus tear that ended his rookie season, he was functionally still a rookie, there’s no reason to judge him entirely on his first stretch of play (on extremely inconsistent minutes with no plays being run for him) as what he was going to be. They didn’t need him to be a starter, Nurse had no interest in playing him because he’d rather play his starters 40 mpg. Jared’s pairings with Tyrese or Joel were very very good statistically, he could’ve played 20 mpg. I don’t get why anyone’s saying he wouldn’t start, it’s not like he was demanding to start, they could’ve easily sold far higher on him down the line.
If he was bad they wouldn’t have gotten a 1st and 2 2nds lol
those were some ass first and 2 2nds been a terrible trade on the 76ers part.
makes 0 sense. gave the champs the ROY.
Neither do we
Ownership is cheap.
it’s Morey there’s not much to understand lol
Salary cap
Do you want to see a competitive Sixers team or Josh Harris duck the salary cap?
They have Grimes, Maxey, and VJ. Not enough playtime and they get picks I guess.
We have SGA/dort/wiggins/joe/topic/caso/caruso etc constantly paying small ball when Chet and hart sit. You make it work
Yeah but tbf a lot of those guys can’t create. You really only have 3 dudes who can create on the offensive end consistently so it makes sense to get another.
And Philly have Tyrese, PG, and Joel that can consistently create. That’s it. And one had just gotten suspended for 25 games, another is often injured and rests, and the third is leading the league in minutes per game. Philly need him far more than OKC did.
Grimes, VJ and Oubre on occasion can create far better than anybody outside of the 3 i listed
Especially since they’re all dealing with injuries lol and our fourth best ball handler is Caruso and he’s also out
He is not gonna play that much once Ajay, SGA, and Jdubb come back. He is getting those mins and opportunities with those 3 out.
We just signed Cam Payne away from Serbia and he’s playing actual minutes now.
McCain might not have had as much minutes as he would’ve in an ideal situation, but he definitely would’ve had some.
Nurse seemed not to like him for some reason, and Daryl clearly had a mandate to save Josh Harris a few million dollars by trading him.
Nurse absolutely hated him
IMO, the only redemption for keeping Grimes over McCain is if that 1st round pick ends up turning into a great player for the 76ers.
Advanced stats between the two were identical, but McCain is younger, gets paid less, and isn’t an unrestricted free agent after this year.
The 76ers will either be resigning Grimes for several times as much money as McCain was set to make for similar production OR they’ll be letting Grimes walk for nothing. So that 1st round pick really needs to hit.
I mean advanced stats were the same if you count a 23 game sample size last year, this year pre-trade he was awful
Now obviously the other end of that was ALSO a small sample size of him coming back after injury, but it’s sort of a battle of small sample sizes and the 76ers felt like the more recent one meant more, who knows if that ends up being correct
For how good he was last year, it makes no sense. And he is truly young talent. Grimes is solid and been in the league for years now. As a Knicks fan I was shocked and honestly extremely happy about it
I mean not recently, the last 10 game sample is beautiful
advanced stats between the two were identical.
Um, what?
I mean, I’ll happily acknowledge that McCain looked pretty rough coming back from injury this season, and didn’t even show real flashes of the guy he was last season until the calendar clicked over into ‘26, but you can go to cleaningtheglass and see that the on/off net ratings for Grimes and McCain are wildly divergent — +3.8 pp/100 for McCain and -1.9 for Grimes.
I like Grimes, btw, and think he’s definitely been a more useful player than McCain for the Sixers this season, warts and all, but I don’t really see how their advanced stats are identical. TS%, DRTG, VORP, BPM, whatever alphabet soup you want to look at — they’re actually pretty distinct.
Why would Grimes want to play in Philly? Why would anyone?
Embiid can’t stay on the court. He is a cloud hanging over the team.
Money?
Possible a trade in the offseason is looming for the Sixers
Maxey VJ and McCain is way better for the future. I think grimes is a free agent after this year?
Nurse is giving 40 mins to Maxey and VJ per game
That is a serious lack of guards which is why they just signed Cameron Payne off the scrap heap
Grimes is gone after this year though
They traded him and gave those minutes to Cam Payne, I’m just not understanding this
That’s Terry Johnson to you!
Darryl Morey is a liar.
There has been literally nothing to say from this stretch to say that he has ‘peaked’.
He has been very very good in his role as a second year player and cpuld basically plug in to any team with his shooting and ball movement.
To the point his defense has been more than passable. He tries, closes out and is generally in good positions.
I cannot believe we got him for a late FRP and some seconds. Its outrageous.
It is insane how Morey treated this dude like a bag of chips.
Daryl Morey is a liar
Let me say that again
Crazy how he already peaked though
Is he just getting better looks or is he playing better?
He was already looking a lot better the last 3 games before they traded him
Both. He’s getting much better spacing with Joe and Wiggins on the floor and he’s knocking down his shots
He’s also a huge confidence player, getting plays ran for him and knowing he’s both going to get some guaranteed run and not going to just get hooked randomly would help quite a lot. Then there’s the spite factor and all.
That really should point a lot of credit to the OKC coach Mark.
He’s been criticized for running 1-15 sometimes due to people wanting to see the “statistically strongest” lineups stay on the court longer.
But because he puts minutes on everyone’s shoulders, they all feel like they contribute and he gets to learn which lineups he can run against which opponents.
I’d say it’s that very thing that allowed him to put Caruso on Jokic in game 7 for example.
He was already playing better on 76ers. Last 10 games with them, he was shooting +40% from 3
The “sold high” comment just remind me of the Dallas saga, when slanders articles about Doncic where coming and they were like “Mf might never played basketball at high level again lol”
I don’t know seems like a drastically different type of talent. That comparison absurd
Nothing about comparaison, I’m talking about the post-trade comment. I like Morey as a GM, but his “sold high comment” was out of touch, same way outing acting about Luka prime being over was dumb.
I mean it’s not like he said it out of nowhere he was asked the reasoning behind the pick and he said it. He could have been more political about it but people also love to complain about generic answers
What’s the actual reason this sub treats him like a make a wish, I truly don’t get it
I dunno but the Thunder get shit on so much for smashing the league so I’ll take it, lol.
it’s mostly his tiktok dances lol they feel a need to support him because of the people who hate on him on social media
Watching his YouTube stuff he just seems like a genuinely nice guy and fun to be around too.
Daryl Morey is going to get fired for this.
Morey is a clown
This kid hasn’t even begun to peak.
It’s the perfect situation for Jared, he’s gonna get the bag
darryl “we sold high” morrey
This trade was an admittance by Morey that this team is not a title contender. He has talked before about how he and his staff grade their teams by % of title chances - I suspect his number for the 25⁄26 Sixers was very low.
Is 13pts for 5 games considered an impressive run for this guy?
Given we play him at most like 15ish minutes yeah I would say so he is close enough to a point per minute and when he is on the court you can tell the offense gets better just from his 3pt gravity he has to always be covered he does a lot of off ball movement like what curry does for you guys to try to get open, with more minutes the numbers likely go up, we likely need to improve his defense a bit more in order to give him that extra uptick in minutes
We’re really posting W-L records for bench players?
Relevant considering OKC has been struggling and needed offense bad with SGA and JDub out. Offense and vibes have been much better since he came over. A win vs the cavs is really solid
Immensely impressive by OKC but he played 15 mins against the Cavs. He’s not exactly spearheading the 4-1 record playing the 9th most minutes on the team.
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Insufferable because we posted that our new fan favorite is playing well?
I think you’re just still hurt about the trade lol
Because yall gave us what we needed. A shot creator off the bench with tremendous upside for nothing. And it’s great
And he’s a celebrity
Because Darryl Morey is an insufferable prick without the decency to speak nicely about players he trades away, so when said players play well, it feels like karma.
We like him
And he’s online a lot
He deserves a fair welcome after crying when he got traded
He was like I need to get underwear because they traded me in the middle of a road trip. That just has to be brutal to be playing on a team and they say we don’t want you anymore.
I love that the fans gave him a standing ovation when he checked in for his debut.
I didn’t really like McCain but you just gotta scroll down bro lol. My gripe is that we didn’t get enough in that trade.
I love Morey but “sold high” is straight up false. OKC traded for him at his lowest (6ppg on low efficiency)
I don’t agree but I guess will see. I didn’t like the trade because it hurts us now but I think the return is good. I can’t see him being more than the 7th guy off the bench. He can’t guard anyone and is weak.
Same things could have been said about Isaiah Joe and now he’s a great team defender who holds his own 1 on 1.
No disagree. He has size. Joe was always a 3 and D guy. I would rather have him than McCain
And we have them both. Thanks again
He is my sunshine.
a whopping 13 points lol. is it really needed to make a post about this?
Too bad his defense is fucking atrocious. This sub only cares about one side of the court though, nothing new.
Luckily we don’t need him for that.
And he got sat by Mark a few times tonight because of his D, he’ll probably improve lol