I wouldn't expect them to win without Westbrook.
They've had other chances with a healthy Westbrook and Durant and even with Harden and failed to do so. This year they are struggling to even make the playoffs.
Did the Bulls wilt away without Rose?
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I wouldn't expect them to win without Westbrook.
They've had other chances with a healthy Westbrook and Durant and even with Harden and failed to do so. This year they are struggling to even make the playoffs.
Did the Bulls wilt away without Rose?
So they should have beat a Heat team with a prime Lebron (arguably the second best player of all time) and a healthy Wade and Bosh in their primes with a bunch of 22/21 years old? I just want to see where you stand overall.
Of course they shouldn't have won without Westbrook. I just want to see how unrealistic your guys expectations are and how it translates to the Thunder underacheiving.
As for this year? Seriously? Its those kind of comments that make it clear you guys are not being fair about the Thunder.
The Thunder will make the playoffs and if they continue to play how they are playing now I expect them to be in the discussion for a championship. I still need to see a more sustained run before I go all in but as long as they don't have any injuries to their big three it iwll be a great season.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
They're struggling to make it b/c Russ and KD both missed 20+ games.
They've only had 25 games in which KD and Russ play together.
Stop it.
They're in the 2 or 3 spot if Russ/KD are healthy all year.
They lost to LAL, in 6 who won the title.
Dal, won the title, beat Miami.
Expecting them to beat a prime/peak Miami team with Wade, Bron, and Bosh in their primes is delusional talk.
Harden was 19-21 then.
I guess they were supposed to be the youngest team of all-time to win a title though.
Regarding the Bulls, they competed, they still had Butler, Deng, Taj, Noah, Boozer, and other pieces on that team w/o Rose.
NinersSBChamps
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br> 2015 (Co-Winner)</BR>20
Yeah I don't get this whole "Thunder underachieved" talk. Show me a team who won the finals with their core players barely legal to drink alcohol.
It doesn't happen in the NBA.
SO that basically leaves last year as the only year where even the smallest of arguments could be made that the Thunder didn't win when they "Should have" won. But even that is debateable when you realize just how important Ibaka is to how the Thunder play defense.
So this whole narrative that the Thunder have underachieved or the Thunder haven't won because of the Harden trade is pure BS. Yes, lets debate the merits of the Harden deal or if the Thunder should have kept Harden over Ibaka. All valid arguments but the Thunder when healthy have been the best team in basketball the last years prior to this season but have had their seasons derailed by injuries at the most inopportuned times.
Its funny that someone can hype up the THunder the way you do. All the guys yet don't think they under achieve. It doesn't make sense.
The team is full of studs, in your mind.
Nothing I've said in the past is contradictory what I've said now. If you think that any team should be able to win after suffering an injury to the defensive anchor in the playoffs then we have a different understanding of how basketball is played. You've already admitted that when RW went down that wasn't underachieving and I would love for you to find another example in NBA history of a team winning with a core as young as the Thunders prior to Harden being traded.
NinersSBChamps
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br> 2015 (Co-Winner)</BR>20
I don't care about the All Star game, but this should confirm to anyone who likes Carmelo. What a selfish pile of trash he is. Doesn't play regular season games and is thinking about shutting it down for the rest of the season and he is playing tonight.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
So the years they underachieved were losing to Miami when their Big 3 were at their prime.
And losing to SA who had a better record than OKC and assraped Miami in the Finals.
Weak trolling, i've seen better.
So the Thunder just arent good?
One min yall arent they are great, the next every excuse in the book fornwhy they arent.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
Injuries to a top 5-10 player and the defensive anchor mean nothing
I'll remember this if any of your teams lose key players since injuries dont mean anything.
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
Magic is a top 2-3 player ever, Kareem top 5-7, and Worthy was a great one as well, you serious Clark?
Not winning with injured westbrook is understandable as I said. Theyve been together how many years?
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
NinersSBChamps
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br> 2015 (Co-Winner)</BR>20
Is someone asking how the Lakers won in 88? Magic, Kareem, Worthy, Cooper, Thompson, AC Green, and Byron Scott.
Yeah I don't get how this team ever won games.
Yeah I don't get how this team ever won games.
Sometimes i wonder if younand heyward battle for dumb. 88?
Heyward
<B>Voted Worst Poster <br>'13, '14, '15 (Co-Winner
They arent even at their primes yet, i guess you have unrealistic expectations.