OKC front office is the problem

[livinglegend]

Ball movement systems only work when you have players who can shoot the ball and/or dribble the ball.
Who is a good ball handler outside of Durant and Westbrook on OKC? No one.
Who is a good ball shooter on the team? Durant, Ibaka? , Westbrook is very average.
Without good shooters and/or ball handlers, durant and westbrook are forced to play isoball and take tough shots.

[imdaman99]

They need 3 and D guys. Every championship team has them, Heat had them when they won, Spurs got a bunch, Warriors have a bunch.
OKC has NONE. Their role players are either 3 or D. Who can do both for them?

[Underrated KD]

Ball movement systems only work when you have players who can shoot the ball and/or dribble the ball.
Who is a good ball handler outside of Durant and Westbrook on OKC? No one.
Who is a good ball shooter on the team? Durant, Ibaka? , Westbrook is very average.
Without good shooters and/or ball handlers, durant and westbrook are forced to play isoball and take tough shots.

Great post. Yup. Their front office is utter trash.

[livinglegend]

They need 3 and D guys. Every championship team has them, Heat had them when they won, Spurs got a bunch, Warriors have a bunch. OKC has NONE. Their role players are either 3 or D. Who can do both for them?

Who can shoot 3's on their team?
Ibaka is very inconsistent. Payne sucks. Waiters can't shoot 3's.

[Thunderfan86]

Who can shoot 3's on their team?
Ibaka is very inconsistent. Payne sucks. Waiters can't shoot 3's.

Anthony Morrow

[imdaman99]

Who can shoot 3's on their team?
Ibaka is very inconsistent. Payne sucks. Waiters can't shoot 3's.

Yeah I guess they only really have 1 guy that comes off the bench and can hit 3s. The guy is Morrow. Surprisingly enough, even he is inconsistent. Dude had a wide open look tonight and missed it.

[Thunderfan86]

Yeah I guess they only really have 1 guy that comes off the bench and can hit 3s. The guy is Morrow. Surprisingly enough, even he is inconsistent. Dude had a wide open look tonight and missed it.

Yeah, but it was just one shot and he never touched the ball again. Give the guy a break

[warriorfan]

russell "needs more help" westbrook

it's official, this cat is lebron jr

[imdaman99]

Yeah, but it was just one shot and he never touched the ball again. Give the guy a break

He's supposed to be automatic man. I play in a league and I'm a 3 and D role player. Simple enough, if I miss my first wide open look, the stars on my team might not give me the ball again it sucks, but that's the life of a role player. When I make my first shot, I will get a bunch of shots.

[wally_world]

Posted this in another thread

And the thing is... they are such an arrogant and delusional team. Why cant they man up and see that this hero ball offence isnt going to work in the playoffs (as proven again and again and again and again)? Why do we keep going back to an ineffective, unsuccessful gameplan?

- Stagnant offense; hero ball
- Any time we are down more than 3 with <2min to go = KD bail-out 3 OFF A ****ING TIMEOUT
- Ibaka's horrible defense (blocked shots not = good D)
- Andre fkin Roberson in crunch time (idc about the 1 or 2 good defensive possessions when for 8-10 straight possessions he can be left alone to double on KD)
- Not making Westbrook pay for his mistakes. I understand he's the alphadog but you cant let him climb over the head coach

Absolutely disgusting as a fan seeing all these talent squandered

[Mike smith]

They need 3 and D guys. Every championship team has them, Heat had them when they won, Spurs got a bunch, Warriors have a bunch.
OKC has NONE. Their role players are either 3 or D. Who can do both for them?

Well teams aren't just giving away those players they are hard to get.

[livinglegend]

Posted this in another thread

They don't have the players to build a system with lots of ball movement.
With the players they have, they are kind of forced to play that stagnant offense.

[tamaraw08]

Im telling you guys, it's the coaching.
Rick Carlisle's 2nd best player barely played this year and he has to play a bunch of washed up players like Villanueva, Williams, Barea, Felton plus rookies like Mejri and managed to maximize what they have and get into the playoffs.

[imdaman99]

Well teams aren't just giving away those players they are hard to get.

Well, they should have started drafting them after they got Harden. At this point, they can't draft them anymore since their clock is ticking with the 2 stars. And you know they are not overpaying to steal a 3 and D guy away from anyone, are you saying there is no hope?

[tamaraw08]

He's supposed to be automatic man. I play in a league and I'm a 3 and D role player. Simple enough, if I miss my first wide open look, the stars on my team might not give me the ball again it sucks, but that's the life of a role player. When I make my first shot, I will get a bunch of shots.

What about Waiters? this guy has been struggling the whole year and still manage to play longs minutes and take several shots/game.