Why are you lying? Did you just claim that OKC had the best roster in the league without James Harden? nikka what? Go read their roster right now in 2016 and tell me how they were more talented than GSW, Cleveland, the Spurs or Clippers. They stayed with a top 5 roster? They had Russ and KD and some mid post-Harden. Ibaka was their third best player. Management trading away James Harden isn’t a failure?
You nikkas love your narratives more than facts so I’ll let you stick to it.
Lol bruh other than Cleveland, no team on paper was comparable to OKC in terms of just raw talent in 2016. GS was not more talented, they were just ahead of the curve and operated a system the league wasn't ready for yet. The spurs, bruh, stop lol. Timmy was washed at that point, and so was Ginoboli. Them dudes just played hellacious defense that season
We're not talking the best functioning team...just raw talent. Team won 55 games that year and it should've easily been about 65...blew well over double digit fourth quarter leads that year. That roster was immensely talented and long and athletic. Not to mention, what other team in the league had two top 10 players bro? None. And they were not top heavy, plenty of depth, just below avg shooting and a no structure to the offense
And yes, when as just stated, you have two top 10 players (15 depending on when you wanna say Russ took a top 10 leap) and good to great role players up and down the roster and you're routinely a contender...yes you have a top 5 roster. You tryna rewrite history bro.
KD did not fail to lead his team to a ring for a dirth of talent. It was a conjunction of 1. He's just not an alpha, and can be mentally and physically beat up in a series when he has to cosplay as one; 2. Lack of coaching. Him and Russ just played streetball while everyone else just watched; 3. Injuries.
2012 finals
2013 Semis (Believe Russ was hurt, was a #1 seed)
2014 WCF, nobody was beating SAS that yr to be fair. But they could have if KD plays above his season averages that series
2015 Injuries
2016 blew a 3-1 lead in the conf.finals
Those weren't management problems. Just bad luck, bad coaching, and their best player NOT being the nikka you need heading the troops.
fukk all that Harden shyt you talking, it doesn't take 3 MVPs to win a chip.
Quit babying him. Chuck is right, he's just a hypocrite