What Kyrie & Luka wants vs What Shai & Chet needs - Official (1) OKC Thunder vs. (5) Mavericks Round 2 Thread

Who will win this series?

  • OKC Thunder in 4

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • OKC Thunder in 5

    Votes: 10 9.8%
  • OKC Thunder in 6

    Votes: 10 9.8%
  • OKC Thunder in 7

    Votes: 14 13.7%
  • Mavericks in 4

    Votes: 2 2.0%
  • Mavericks in 5

    Votes: 3 2.9%
  • Mavericks in 6

    Votes: 47 46.1%
  • Mavericks in 7

    Votes: 15 14.7%

  • Total voters
    102

Miggs

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That Chet contract is three years away from kicking inevitably kicking in, they can afford Lauri for the time being.

Dudes also do realize that Utah is looking to cash Lauri out themselves and not do OKC the favor in trading him right?


The other reason they should be going for it right now all these re ups are gonna force them to sell off someone when you have SGA and ascending guys who havent got paid yet is the time to go all in on the team.....
 
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OKC now knows what works and what they need to do going forward
They knew what they needed. Rebounding. Have the lightest center and don't get him a backup.
People get too optimistic about these young squads
One bad injury can shave years off a teams window
When you have the 1 seed you go all in smh
Gordon Hayward being the move at the deadline is still :snoop:
He scored ZERO POINTS in the playoffs. ZERO
True. OKC lost time when Russ got hurt one year and then KD. Then got healthy and got eliminated by 73 win GS, KD left window closed. He could've went for ANY big and that would've been an improvement.
 

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The other reason they should be going for it right now all these re ups are gonna force them to sell off someone when you have SGA and ascending guys who havent got paid yet is the time to go all in on the team.....
I agree, but Lauri isn't going to happen so he shouldn't be in the hypothetical topic of conversation
 

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Thunder could have easily gotten Gafford instead of Dallas, he was given away for nothing.

With the picks they have they could have gotten anyone that was available...

Siakam,Gafford,PJ,Anunoby,Bruce Brown,Markkanen..theres guys that werent talked about they could have gotten by throwing some of there 1sts around.

5 years from now they will have nothing to show for this and one of the SGA,Holmgren,JDubb will have moved on....
 

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"Coach of the year" burns his final timeout on a bad challenge :laff:
You gotta be fukking kidding me.
Worst case scenario if they didn't challenge, they were down 2, with ball at half court and a chance to tie or win
That blown challenge basically robbed them of a chance
Horrible decision

Jamahl Mosley should have won coach of the year
 

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"Coach of the year" burns his final timeout on a bad challenge :laff:
You gotta be fukking kidding me.
Worst case scenario if they didn't challenge, they were down 2, with ball at half court and a chance to tie or win
That blown challenge basically robbed them of a chance
Horrible decision
Daigenault was getting outcoached by Jason fukking Kidd all series long.
 
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