Originally Posted by
Seto
I think the team is poorly constructed around Westbrook and Durant. Honestly this summer some people were shaking their heads at matching Portland's offer on Kanter, my initial reaction was "why not sign him and just go for it since they can go over the cap" but I'm starting to see why.
OKC played some of their best ball in 2012-2014 with Ibaka at the 5. Now that they have Adams and Kanter, we're not seeing any smallball from them anymore. I think Kanter is detrimental to a team if he isn't their number 1 or 2 option on offense. And that will never happen in OKC. He just gives up too many points on the other end to be a #3 or 4 option offensively. Unless you want to just play him and run the offense through him when Westbrook and Durant are on the bench. But you can't pay a guy the max and play him for 10 minutes.
Also enough of fukking Roberson in the starting lineup. He sucks. And given the Thunder's defensive numbers this year, I'd say having him in there for defense doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
New scoring punch off the bench needed too. Dion Waiters doesn't cut it.
I'd start Westbrook Morrow Durant Ibaka Adams
Bench:
Augustin
New scorer
New defensive wing who can make a decent percentage in 3's
New 4 man (enough of Nick Collison)
9 man rotation with Adams playing about 28-30 minutes so 18-20 minutes of smallball.
Then you fill up the roster with Payne Roberson Singler Novak McGary and whoever. Decent enough rotation players for when injuries kick in.