Your team is still in such a hilariously good spot as long as you’re healthy, the only concern would be whether Daigneault plays Dort a little too much. Also gotta say I am surprised by Aaron Wiggins’ regression this season, he was so good last year.

Everyone commenting on the soft schedule is being ridiculous. They were murdering those teams. It wasn’t like they had close matchups. They were doing exactly what an all-time team would do to a soft schedule

I think calling it fools gold is an over correction. Last year they won 68 games, a title, had the best point differential of all time, had the 2nd best Net Rating of all time. I think that is already in the conversation for one of the best teams of all time. Then you follow that up going 24-1, I think the conversations were justifiable

I’m just glad we don’t have to see ten stupid posts a week about how the Thunder are guaranteed to run away with the next 5 titles and how the NBA is a joke.

That shit was so annoying.

Hell, if Haliburton didn’t get hurt they may well have not even won last year.

Tbh only Kawhi was true all star in his prime, the rest were either border line stars (like Siakam), or former all stars (like Lowry and Gasol). I wouldn’t count all 6 you probably meant as all stars, although they were indeed deep

I think there are teams who have a better Top 6 or Top 7 or whatever you want to cut it off at than the current Thunder team, but where they differentiate themselves is they have like by far the greatest 8-12 guys in NBA history. Like last year Ajay Mitchell was 12th on their team in MPG. Guys like Isaiah Joe, Aaron Wiggins, Kenrich Williams and Jaylin Williams would be heavy minute players for a lot of other teams in the league.

Just because they played really well without him, doesn’t mean they were better off without him though.

You lot had a stretch in 2017 where you went on a crazy good run without KD, doesn’t mean you weren’t better off having him.

Fully healthy, their team has like 10 guys who are positive impact players, they would have had a chance because they wouldn’t be playing any bad players, which is a superpower in the 82 game regular season.

JDub was inconsistent when he first got back from wrist surgery but then he was starting to cook just before he pulled his hamstring. If you include time missed from iHart and Mitchell as well the Thunder have definitely been impacted by injury beyond just SGA being out.

I’m not Bill Simmons so I’m not gonna pretend to know where he stacks up, what I’ll say is that SGA over the last 2+ years has a peak that is not really dissimilar what Giannis did from 2019-2021 and not far off what Jokic has done over the last 5 years.

Wtf is that username

Last year I thought we would basically be the Celtics 2 years prior. Get to the show, but lose to the former champs. When the Celtics were out cause Tatum went down I thought we had a decent shot if we got there. But that finals series took years off my life.

I thought that our team doctors were just being overly cautious with everyone this year and then post ASB we start ramping up for the playoffs…but my hand is firmly hovering over the panic button now.

meanwhile you get nothing

I hope to one day reach this level of optimism about anything in my life

Likely true but man it would be great for the league for Ant to win one

i just don’t think it’s a guarantee that a fully rested and healthy okc will exist this season