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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla
Man, OKC is so good and a blast to watch. Incredibly deep and play great basketball. No JDub, no Wiggins? No problem.
With them getting significant contributions from guys up and down the roster, it makes me wonder: Is the player identification, player development, or both? UDFAs, 2nd rounders, late firsts. They all play well.
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The Clippers made a Hershel Walker trade with them and that helped. A lot. It netted them SGA and Jalen Williams (and more, though they make so many trades, some of that's hard to track).
Then they picked a good year to suck and the lotto balls fell their way to get the 2nd overall pick in a 2 player draft to land Chet.
They've missed plenty. Mann, Jaquez and Jones were pretty much nothingburgers for them. But they just got so damn many picks when Presti blew it up that they just kept swinging and with an average hit rate managed to do pretty well for themselves.
And i think they're pretty well coached. I mean Hartenstein is a nothing of a ballplayer having a great year because he's in a great situation. Jaylin Williams is an efficient player because they use him in a specific role. Wiggins is pretty similar though I could see him being decent with higher volume (just nowhere near this efficient).
Dortz is a JAG but he was a JAG that didn't cost them anything to speak of so that's a good get. Wallace is another nice fit in that they were able to get a nice defensive wing for but he was essentially a lottery pick (swapped with the Mavericks and took him).
They just had so much capital that when you combine that with a superstar that fell in their laps in SGA, they're gonna have a really good team.