OKC's Supporting Cast Is Underrated

[BeastMode24]

no excuses for Durant and Westbrook their supporting cast is stacked. OKC's big man rotation of Ibaka, Adams, and Kanter is one of the best in the league. these dudes literally grab every one of durant's bricks and put it back in. no excuses. this team is stacked.

[keep-itreal]

Any franchise player would kill to have a supporting cast Durant has right now.

[imdaman99]

The biggest reason they get all those offensive rebounds is because Durant and Westbrook force the other team to help on them leaving their big men easier position to crash.

[stalkerforlife]

They have enough if they play the right way.

[Nick Young]

They are badly coached.

[stalkerforlife]

They are badly coached.

Westbrook's his own coach.

[SwishSquared]

They don't have a starting caliber SG that has consistently been a positive 2-way player down the stretch. They're a 3&D wing and a real coach away from knocking out anybody. It remains to be seen how Waiters will play against a real playoff team. Also, maybe if their supporting cast and coaching staff were better, WB would actually try defensively.

[KiiiiNG]

They don't have a starting caliber SG that has consistently been a positive 2-way player down the stretch. They're a 3&D wing and a real coach away from knocking out anybody. It remains to be seen how Waiters will play against a real playoff team. Also, maybe if their supporting cast and coaching staff were better, WB would actually try defensively.

Well said coach! Completely agree

[Mike smith]

He's a first year coach give him time before we say he's a bad coach

[thefatmiral]

They have good help. But there type of ball does not win chips. Stack it as you may

[DMAVS41]

They don't have a starting caliber SG that has consistently been a positive 2-way player down the stretch. They're a 3&D wing and a real coach away from knocking out anybody. It remains to be seen how Waiters will play against a real playoff team. Also, maybe if their supporting cast and coaching staff were better, WB would actually try defensively.

This.

Billy has turned out to be worse than Brooks...and their gaping hole at 2 is kryptonite against great teams.

Both of which had easy fixes...but Presti wet the bed since 13 on pretty much every move.

[SwishSquared]

This.

Billy has turned out to be worse than Brooks...and their gaping hole at 2 is kryptonite against great teams.

Both of which had easy fixes...but Presti wet the bed since 13 on pretty much every move.

The Donovan move made little sense considering Thibs maybe could have been had last summer if it was timed better. Or even gotten somebody other than Donovan. I think even D'Antoni would be better than Donovan.

Also the '14 draft is where Presti didn't make up for failing to address holes at the '14 deadline. Took McGary over Hood and Heustis over Jokic (who filled the perfect need of stashing to avoid luxury tax payments). The Waiters trade was a bust (he could have just traded Perk to the Knicks for JR + Shump).

They literally could have had Smith @ starting SG and a smallball bench of X/Hood/Shump/Roberson/Jokic. Not to mention Hood would close out games for them on the wing. Also could have still had Lance Thomas, who can at least D up on the wing and hit a 3 occasionally. I thought he outperformed expectations on a dysfunctional NYK team this year.

[DMAVS41]

The Donovan move made little sense considering Thibs maybe could have been had last summer if it was timed better. Or even gotten somebody other than Donovan. I think even D'Antoni would be better than Donovan.

Also the '14 draft is where Presti didn't make up for failing to address holes at the '14 deadline. Took McGary over Hood and Heustis over Jokic (who filled the perfect need of stashing to avoid luxury tax payments). The Waiters trade was a bust (he could have just traded Perk to the Knicks for JR + Shump).

They literally could have had Smith @ starting SG and a smallball bench of X/Hood/Shump/Roberson/Jokic. Not to mention Hood would close out games for them on the wing. Also could have still had Lance Thomas, who can at least D up on the wing and hit a 3 occasionally. I thought he outperformed expectations on a dysfunctional NYK team this year.

Totally agree about Hood and everything you say. Also, they could have traded for Afflalo in 14...

To me, 14 was the year. The fact that they ran with Fisher/Butler in the playoffs is just one of the dumbest things I've ever seen from a team management position out of a true contender.

Hell, they could have traded for Crowder, Wright, and a pick instead of getting Kanter. Which would have been significantly better and wouldn't have killed their cap.

The Waiters move made absolutely no sense and he doesn't move the needle on that team much at all imo.

Really, this team just stopped playing good defense after 14...and not sure why a team that needs to improve it's defense....brings in Kanter and Waiters.

[SwishSquared]

Totally agree about Hood and everything you say. Also, they could have traded for Afflalo in 14...

To me, 14 was the year. The fact that they ran with Fisher/Butler in the playoffs is just one of the dumbest things I've ever seen from a team management position out of a true contender.

Hell, they could have traded for Crowder, Wright, and a pick instead of getting Kanter. Which would have been significantly better and wouldn't have killed their cap.

The Waiters move made absolutely no sense and he doesn't move the needle on that team much at all imo.

Really, this team just stopped playing good defense after 14...and not sure why a team that needs to improve it's defense....brings in Kanter and Waiters.

I remember we've discussed at length the failure to upgrade from Fisher/Butler back in 2014. And he had little excuse when he had 2 firsts to dangle that deadline and eventually essentially wasted both on guys who don't contribute. That was like the last year Affalo was actually good, too. And he could have been flipped at the '15 deadline (same way the Nuggets did for a mid 1st) anyway.

I felt that in the '14 draft he could have redeemed himself but failed. And failed honestly badly in that Waiters deal and perhaps to an extent in the Kanter deal (I'm still against it because it led to a ridiculous overpay).

Man haha would they be set if they made a move for Wright/Crowder/etc.

Lol yeah they shot themselves in the foot with adding non-defense black hole offensive types

[BlazerRed]

They don't have a starting caliber SG that has consistently been a positive 2-way player down the stretch. They're a 3&D wing and a real coach away from knocking out anybody. It remains to be seen how Waiters will play against a real playoff team. Also, maybe if their supporting cast and coaching staff were better, WB would actually try defensively.

This. Coach in OKC is still terrible. Stupid decision getting rid of Brooks for an unproven coach with this lineup. Really ****ing stupid.. and if Roberson could knock down shots it would be game over, and OKC would be the champs for years to come. No one even defends Roberson, so it leaves other defenders to put more pressure on Durant and Westbrook. If Roberson could hit the open shot.. wow.