How did we go from this...
How did we go from this
to this...
to this....
this team was poised to be a dynasty in 2012. what the fuck happened
and finally this?????????
you need an all time great in position to be a dynasty and none of those players are going to be all time great, they're all just "pretty good"
russ and kevin are a cut above "pretty good" my southern friend. ibaka is by definition "pretty good".
They are pretty good, not all time great good. They don't even scratch any top 10 lists of their position unless you're a cuck.
It's why it never happened, the dynasties are built on all time greats. These players didnt have the confidence and skill.
>he didn't name the jew
it's the orlando magic all over again
they were all in their early twenties. this was before kevin became MVP, before russ became westGOD, before harden became the star he is. they were poised to all come into their primes together and go to the finals every year. you're seriously devaluing these players, only ibaka fits the bill for what you're saying.
They would've won a championship if Harden wasn't a disappearing faggot
Fuck off newfags
It's called multiple season ending injuries. There's nothing you can do when all your best players are injured every year.
And now they are 28 and all are relatively mediocre shit players with zero accomplishments wew
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Durant was being shaped up to be the next thing but westbrook got injured, then he got injured, then westbrook and ibaka got injured and then the warriors and steph rise came and then the people of okc started liking westbrook more than him. so he joined the bandwagon
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it kinda makes sense he would go to the Warriors now if you put things into context
>spotted the faggot
Harden was let go cause presti wouldn't give him money
it could be said they probably would never have gone down to injury if Harden was still there taking some of the workload off Kevin and Russell.
this was the real problem. every year post-2012, one of the big 3 was injured every year. they never got a full crack at it. the only time they did was this year, and they went up 3-1 on the warriors. needless to say 3-1 is the most dangerous lead. and that was the end of the era.
they literally paid ibaka over harden. ibaka who never got any better than his 2012 year, in fact, that was the best year of his career. every year after he got less blocks and was just out on the perimeter shooting 3's. meanwhile harden flourished in houston and IMO should have won MVP the year curry got his first.
basically presti doubled down on the wrong guy. on a guy who never became an all star.
but it makes you wonder if 3 ball dominant players could have made it work anyways.
Harden doesn't fit well with Westbrook and Durant though. He's a ball dominant volume shooter who plays terrible defense, they needed the opposite of that, which is exactly what Ibaka was. Westbrook and Durant were already enough to score every point for the team, they needed a dude to do the dirty work. Plus the Thunder got Steven Adams out of the trade.
Trading Harden wasn't the nail in the coffin for them, it was the combination of constantly getting injured and going up against ridiculous competition in every single round. Their prime contending years forced them to play the prime Spurs, Trail Blazers, Clippers, Warriors, Grizzlies, and Heat. The Heat team that beat them in 2012 and the Spurs team that beat them in 2014 are 2 of the top 10 best teams of all time. They just got fucked over by a combination of injury and fierce competition.
This last season was the only time it ever came together, and Durant choked it away by turning the ball over so much. Ironically if Durant stayed, this could have been the year that they won it all.
Ibaka was never that good after the Finals season. Harden left because he didn't know his limitations. Westbrick was never that good anyway. Durant did nothing wrong with leaving.
Also, Scott Brooks was a terrible HC.
>Their prime contending years forced them to play the prime Spurs, Trail Blazers, Clippers, Warriors, Grizzlies, and Heat.
Not an excuse.
>t-they had to play them big boys
Their prime got wasted on Scott fucking Brooks.
Also don't forget, they refused to amnesty Perkins and fucking Brooks played him like 35 minutes against Heat's small ball line up.
Maybe the organization is just shit?
I'm sure Westbrook actually wants out too
it's karma for killing the supersonics
>thunder is now the most cursed professional team
You are now aware that the Thunder are the West's Raptors
ah, coach brooks. the master of the clogged-toilet offense.