Ousmane Dieng Shows Potential with 36 PTS, 7 RBS, 10 AST vs. Rockets
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Ousmane put up 36 PTS, 7 RBS, and 10 AST while also guarding Durant last night.
Thunder development staff are on a generation run right now lol
it would be really funny if he ends up being an all star
do the Thunder really get credit when he’s only been breaking out with HALL OF FAME coach Doc Rivers?
Thunder played him at the 4⁄5 and the Bucks are playing him at the 2⁄3 so he’s been much better
We have good depth at 2⁄3, he will never see minutes there.
lol for real. The Thunder were basically begging for Dieng to be a real player for a while.
True. Problem was our rebuild went faster than expected, and Ous was a raw prospect. He’ll always be our G-League Finals MVP 😤
They played him at the 4⁄5 which was just wrong
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i was making a joke about doc rivers, it’s not that deep
And the French are in a generational run, how many more good bball players can they create my god lol.
We’re on a generational run in most team sports. If you follow football/soccer you know we’re one of the favorites for the WC, we have so many talented players we could field 2 or 3 teams that would be contenders, we have 8 or 10 elite offensive players when most countries would love to have 1 or 2 of those. We have the best rugby player in the world along with a lot of other world class players, we won back-to-back gold at the olympics in volleyball and while our handball team flopped hard at the Paris Olympics, they’ve dominated the sport for the past 20 or 30 years and we hope it was just an accident. Of course individual sports are a totally different story as we suck in most of the big ones lol but we can’t win everywhere.
Meanwhile China has the opposite problem of huge individual sports success and very little team sport success even with their insane amounts of investments in them lol.
He is definitely making it into my “All French Team of the Year”
What would be your realistic all french team this season? (by realistic I mean, not just the best players but the best team according to positions)
Probably Hayes at the 1, Coulibaly at the 2, Risacher/Dieng at the 3, Wemby as a stretch 4 and Gobert at the 5. The real issue is there’s a bit of a log jam in the big department (Sarr, Diabaté, Yabusele and now Raynaud)
What a problem to have damn.
Thanks for that. I agree with most of it except maybe with the Wemby/Gobert duo. It sucks because I love Gobert but I remember them not playing so well together when I saw them
I agree tbh, it’s just hard to justify leaving out Gobert because he’s much more impactful defensively than all the other options (Wemby is untouchable in my mind). At the same time, a Wemby-led team might not need to double dip on defense, but I don’t think any of those guys are much better offensively anyway yet. They’re bound to be scary soon if all those prospects develop nicely though
If not positionless, then there’s quite a huge gap in talent between front/back court. This would be my All French team of the Year:
I feel a bit bad for leaving Yabu out, but let’s be honest, his year was a fairly big disappointment.
But if this would be my All French Team of the Year… that would not be my selection for the French national team though. I think for the national team, I would try give a boost to the “golden generation” by giving them as much time on the floor together as possible aiming at LA28. So, I’dd push Gobert to the bench (or not take him at all honestly), then slide Wemby at 5, take Diabaté at 4 and start giving significant minutes to Traoré already at 1 (just because his timeline could align with the others for LA 2028). I would then give a lot of time to Zacch/Sarr/Dieng. I think there’s quite a few rotations you can try with that…
Dieng’s greatest issue was that Dieng could NOT stay healthy when he was a Thunder. Dude was always injured!!! Gotta be healthy to play. From fingers to I think wrist issues to everything in between dude was just…hurt. I think a healthy version of Dieng is the G-league MVP just two years ago and likely is a strong rotational player for the future of the league.
That’s of course….if he can stay healthy. I firmly believe there’s players who just need new environments to shine. I hope the Bucks is his new home and if he can play alongside a healthy Giannis that likely could unlock a version of Dieng that us fans never would have been able to see…as Giannis is a lane clearer and helps everyone eats in a different fashion
The Ous is loose
Great to see him attacking the basket and exploiting mismatches instead of settling for the jumper every time. He’s already shown improvement in the short time he’s been with Milwaukee
Bulls legend Ousmane Dieng.
So glad we traded him away for Nick Richards, another AK masterclass!
One of the few bright moments for Bucks fans in an otherwise miserable season - AK, we appreciate you
Opposition fans usually do appreciate him
damn, that’s brutal.
It pisses me off so, so bad. Nick Richards is genuinely one of the worst centers I have ever seen. He is so incredibly and genuinely ass. But no, yeah, let’s go ahead and trade the young wing that we need for the worst center in the league. Great idea, AK. So smart of you.
25 points for Cormac Ryan who is now shooting 51.7⁄44.4⁄87.5 in his 5 games for us.
We signed him from *check notes* oh yeah, OKC’s G-league team.
so what you’re saying is last night was basically the MilwauKC Bunder
Cool to see him actually playing with confidence and attacking the basket. Never got to see that while he was with us.
I love dieng man the slander I heard from other Thunder fans against him for the year leading up to his trade was beyond fucking ridiculous, there were plenty of people literally putting him in ‘worst in the league’ category
I said all along his only issue was consistent confidence, and that he needed proper minutes to develop it 🙌
My countrymen really thought Kai Sotto was on the same level or better than this dude 😭
He was good last night! That said, ngl, i do feel like it leaves out a little context to not mention that he took 31 shots, and he played 45 minutes while handling the ball like 90% of the time. That’s still impressive in its own way for different reasons but basically it wasn’t quite the same tier of pop off that the counting statline might indicate at first glance. 36 points on 54% TS, 10 AST/5 TO and a -11 for the lowest +/- in the game tied with Aaron Holiday (which means the bucks were a +5 in the 3 minutes he didn’t play lol)
If i’m being real i was actually a lot more impressed by how Cormac Ryan played, especially considering he’s on a two-way. 25/2/4/1 on 82% TS, and just based on the eye test i really liked his game. Dude made a couple of very intelligent dump off passes on drives that i wouldn’t have expected from a rookie on a two-way, good shooter, had a couple of big offensive rebounds as well. That said i also just looked him up and realized he’s 27 years old, which explains a bit i suppose
edit: Pete Nance was pretty nasty too, that one stretch in the 3rd where the entire bucks team turned into Steph Curry clones was kind of stressful and i’m pretty sure Nance and Ryan hit at least half of their 3s in the quarter, maybe more