The thing with most of those picks is they will be out of the lottery ... which means they may lead to rotation players instead of StarsOnly way they get stars is to bottom out and win the lottery ... Westbrook swapped w CP3 is the direction that I expect How will okc bottoming out affect the picks they are getting from the clippers?? They still have their own picks Teq fs was referencing the clippers picks though. I didn't read it that way. He said they aren't getting stars with the OKC picks, then said the only way to get stars is to bottom out.It could have been stated more clearly but I support Teq brevity. IF this was baseball I could understand the whole process more clearly, because you have so many players on a roster and you're trying to add assets everywhere. In the NBA, the draft is watered down after the top 4-5 every year where statistics show you have around a 30% chances of drafting a star within the top 10 and that gets flushed even further as the draft goes down. Getting down to picks 15+(where most of the 1st rounders they have will be) and you're hoping you have a player who can stay on your roster past their rookie deal. They would have to not only bottom out, but get lucky in the lottery to be top 3 multiple times to obtain the stars that might compliment the role players they will be getting. Long term, fine, someone could argue completely against the above, but also consider you just told your fan base that your team will not be, nor try to be competitive for the next 7 years. Please pay for all our tickets, but we'll be putting an abortion on the floor for the next 5 years and hope we can be competitive in year 6 or 7. Some may say, well the sixers. The new model of draft picks isn't going to allow for completely mailing in a season, or at least largely reduces your chances of gaining a top 3 pick as in previous years. When OKC trades Paul, and likely Adams, they literally will have zero contracts worth a shit on the board after this year. Gallinari will be gone, the rest of the roster will be gutted. I believe they'd have around $20M on the books. George is the only good player to sign there and he wanted out in a year. Even with space, I'll believe "Max" guys signing in OKC when i see it. The only thing I disagree with here is I think the general narrative that the picks will be worthless is short sighted. They *could* be worthless, but things change so incredibly fast in this league that the Clips could be out of the playoffs in three to four years. It's unlikely, but far from impossible. And they have enough picks accumulated that they'll always be a threat to move up.All that being said, its' going to be a long time before OKC makes the playoffs again unless something really weird happens. I can't wait for their arena to start sitting empty.FCBWARCG
The thing with most of those picks is they will be out of the lottery ... which means they may lead to rotation players instead of StarsOnly way they get stars is to bottom out and win the lottery ... Westbrook swapped w CP3 is the direction that I expect How will okc bottoming out affect the picks they are getting from the clippers?? They still have their own picks Teq fs was referencing the clippers picks though. I didn't read it that way. He said they aren't getting stars with the OKC picks, then said the only way to get stars is to bottom out.It could have been stated more clearly but I support Teq brevity. IF this was baseball I could understand the whole process more clearly, because you have so many players on a roster and you're trying to add assets everywhere. In the NBA, the draft is watered down after the top 4-5 every year where statistics show you have around a 30% chances of drafting a star within the top 10 and that gets flushed even further as the draft goes down. Getting down to picks 15+(where most of the 1st rounders they have will be) and you're hoping you have a player who can stay on your roster past their rookie deal. They would have to not only bottom out, but get lucky in the lottery to be top 3 multiple times to obtain the stars that might compliment the role players they will be getting. Long term, fine, someone could argue completely against the above, but also consider you just told your fan base that your team will not be, nor try to be competitive for the next 7 years. Please pay for all our tickets, but we'll be putting an abortion on the floor for the next 5 years and hope we can be competitive in year 6 or 7. Some may say, well the sixers. The new model of draft picks isn't going to allow for completely mailing in a season, or at least largely reduces your chances of gaining a top 3 pick as in previous years. When OKC trades Paul, and likely Adams, they literally will have zero contracts worth a shit on the board after this year. Gallinari will be gone, the rest of the roster will be gutted. I believe they'd have around $20M on the books. George is the only good player to sign there and he wanted out in a year. Even with space, I'll believe "Max" guys signing in OKC when i see it.
The thing with most of those picks is they will be out of the lottery ... which means they may lead to rotation players instead of StarsOnly way they get stars is to bottom out and win the lottery ... Westbrook swapped w CP3 is the direction that I expect How will okc bottoming out affect the picks they are getting from the clippers?? They still have their own picks Teq fs was referencing the clippers picks though. I didn't read it that way. He said they aren't getting stars with the OKC picks, then said the only way to get stars is to bottom out.It could have been stated more clearly but I support Teq brevity.
The thing with most of those picks is they will be out of the lottery ... which means they may lead to rotation players instead of StarsOnly way they get stars is to bottom out and win the lottery ... Westbrook swapped w CP3 is the direction that I expect How will okc bottoming out affect the picks they are getting from the clippers?? They still have their own picks Teq fs was referencing the clippers picks though.
The thing with most of those picks is they will be out of the lottery ... which means they may lead to rotation players instead of StarsOnly way they get stars is to bottom out and win the lottery ... Westbrook swapped w CP3 is the direction that I expect How will okc bottoming out affect the picks they are getting from the clippers?? They still have their own picks
The thing with most of those picks is they will be out of the lottery ... which means they may lead to rotation players instead of StarsOnly way they get stars is to bottom out and win the lottery ... Westbrook swapped w CP3 is the direction that I expect How will okc bottoming out affect the picks they are getting from the clippers??
The thing with most of those picks is they will be out of the lottery ... which means they may lead to rotation players instead of StarsOnly way they get stars is to bottom out and win the lottery ... Westbrook swapped w CP3 is the direction that I expect
The Raptors just won a natty without a lottery pick on their roster.With this many 1st rounders, Thunder should get lucky with at least a couple of those late 1st picks unless they suck at evals
Instead of appreciating Presti it could easily argue that OKC has been incompetently run
Instead of appreciating Presti it could easily argue that OKC has been incompetently run That’s on ownership not Presti IMO
The thing with most of those picks is they will be out of the lottery ... which means they may lead to rotation players instead of StarsOnly way they get stars is to bottom out and win the lottery ... Westbrook swapped w CP3 is the direction that I expect How will okc bottoming out affect the picks they are getting from the clippers?? They still have their own picks Teq fs was referencing the clippers picks though. I didn't read it that way. He said they aren't getting stars with the OKC picks, then said the only way to get stars is to bottom out.It could have been stated more clearly but I support Teq brevity. IF this was baseball I could understand the whole process more clearly, because you have so many players on a roster and you're trying to add assets everywhere. In the NBA, the draft is watered down after the top 4-5 every year where statistics show you have around a 30% chances of drafting a star within the top 10 and that gets flushed even further as the draft goes down. Getting down to picks 15+(where most of the 1st rounders they have will be) and you're hoping you have a player who can stay on your roster past their rookie deal. They would have to not only bottom out, but get lucky in the lottery to be top 3 multiple times to obtain the stars that might compliment the role players they will be getting. Long term, fine, someone could argue completely against the above, but also consider you just told your fan base that your team will not be, nor try to be competitive for the next 7 years. Please pay for all our tickets, but we'll be putting an abortion on the floor for the next 5 years and hope we can be competitive in year 6 or 7. Some may say, well the sixers. The new model of draft picks isn't going to allow for completely mailing in a season, or at least largely reduces your chances of gaining a top 3 pick as in previous years. When OKC trades Paul, and likely Adams, they literally will have zero contracts worth a shit on the board after this year. Gallinari will be gone, the rest of the roster will be gutted. I believe they'd have around $20M on the books. George is the only good player to sign there and he wanted out in a year. Even with space, I'll believe "Max" guys signing in OKC when i see it. The only thing I disagree with here is I think the general narrative that the picks will be worthless is short sighted. They *could* be worthless, but things change so incredibly fast in this league that the Clips could be out of the playoffs in three to four years. It's unlikely, but far from impossible. And they have enough picks accumulated that they'll always be a threat to move up.All that being said, its' going to be a long time before OKC makes the playoffs again unless something really weird happens. I can't wait for their arena to start sitting empty.FCBWARCG The Thunder have some Miami picks too. They aren’t going to be good. Butler’s contract is huge and they really don’t have many, if any young players that are worth a shit.
