If you watch the NBA without fan favors, you can’t help but love the project created around the Oklahoma City Thunder; Sam Presti‘s masterpiece is finally reaching its peak, opening the doors to a potential winning dynasty.
So many talented young people and so many choices, with potentially unlimited market opportunities and competent people to manage them: OKC truly seems like the Promised Land for all basketball lovers.
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Key players
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (G, 21.5 CR.) he has been the cornerstone of this project for years and he is responding with champion performances. We are unlikely to see him score 40-50 points in a match, because, as he himself said in the best post-match interview in basketball in recent years, “everything must be consistent” in his life: this maxim on the pitch translates into 30 fixed points reported for each shoe lacing. If we also add 5.5 rebounds and 6-7 assists per game, Shai becomes the emblem of solidity, in the NBA and beyond.
Jalen Williams (A, 12.0 CR.) it was a bolt from the blue: from the first match played in the Summer League in his rookie year he seemed like a different player than the average, always superior to everyone of the same age. Perhaps we are blinded by the enormous esteem we have for this boy, but perhaps only Anthony Edwards and Paolo Banchero have this maturity at his age: their closeness with SGA allows him to grow silently, with peaks around 20 points which he reaches more and more frequently .
The third diamond tip is Chet Holmgren (C, 13.5 CR.): the management of this boy seems truly ideal to put him in the best conditions to do well, removing him from the center role which highlighted his physical limitations. Such a lean and slender structure, with good mobility and good consistency when shooting, makes him decidedly more flexible as a winger, not having to mark titans bigger and heavier than him like Jokic, who up until now has caused him to suffer the pain of hell in direct comparisons.
Possible surprises
Isaiah Joe (G, 7.0 CR.) he was the team’s most efficient shooter last season and has everything to confirm himself, even if coming off the bench. For a team that doesn’t make the 3-point game the main aspect, Joe represents a fundamental tactical variant, which Mark Daigneault has never made a secret of appreciating.
Players to avoid
Given that this is the roster where it is most difficult to find someone to avoid, Jaylin Williams (A, 8.0 CR.) he is the man who will be most affected by the arrival of Isaiah Hartenstein (C, 11.0 CR.); whereas Holmgren will be the center of the small ball quintet and there is the young man Ousmane Dieng (A, 5.0 CR.) which deserves some space, we see the long section too crowded to go fishing too much in the undergrowth.
Probable quintet:
G: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander – 21.5 Credits
G: Luguentz There – 9.0 Credits
A: Jalen Williams – 12.0 Credits
A: Chet Holmgren – 13.5 Credits
C: Isaiah Hartenstein – 11.0 Credits
Power Ranking
The addition of Hartenstein and Caruso, who have done so well in their recent experiences at the Playoffs, provides further elasticity to a varied and well-assorted roster. There are many of them, young and strong: we like these Thunder so much that we see them ready to reach at least the Conference Finals of the West.
