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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- The Oklahoma City Thunder are in the midst of one of the best seasons in franchise history. They're on pace for 58 wins, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is possibly the MVP of the NBA, Chet Holmgren is looking like a DPOY candidate and a borderline All Star as a rookie, Jalen Williams is blossoming into an All Star level second option, the supporting cast is fantastic, coach Mark Daigneault is the Coach of the Year frontrunner, and everything is really coming together. However, the path that they took to get to this point was unconventional and much quicker than one would expect. After just two seasons below 40 wins, the Thunder made the play in last year and now look the part of championship contenders while some of their contemporaries are still trying to find footing in their rebuilding process. It's insane how quickly the Thunder put this together and I feel like not enough people realize that. Let's talk about it.
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0:00 - Intro
1:06 - The Start of the Rebuild
2:55 - Rapid Progression
3:50 - Other Rebuilds
5:29 - Perfect Timing
7:01 - Great Drafting
9:15 - Sam Presti and Draft Picks
11:25 - Finding Hidden Gems
12:22 - Getting Lucky
14:38 - The Team Today
15:48 - Outro - กีฬา
Quite possibly. They just need to win that championship and complete the thing. Come full circle from the KD-Westbrook-Harden era.
Yeah and they'd be the best thunder team of all time if they win too which would be kind of funny since they've had so much talent over the years
The Thunder have the rest of league on notice! Probably the best rebuild of all time
Answer me this. Can OKC pay SGA, J-Dub and Chet as superstars? I really really hope they can man.
@@MrKwatts27 it will be hard, probably 2! It helps having bird rights so OKC could go over the cap to resign all 3 after each of their 1st extensions
There’s no way Presti will make the same mistake twice, the predator is the odd man out
@@MrKwatts27they can because they have all their picks, they don’t need to sign expensive role players when they can draft rookies to fill the role
Not the thunder/ SuperSonics drafted kd Russ and James harden in back to back back years and
Thank you for posting this today as we lose embarrassingly to the spurs lol
It’s the nba, it happens.
It made me cry. Not just beat but Wemby balled out on chet.
This is my favorite new channel I have found. Love the OKC content. TtFU!
Honestly what I'm super impressed by are the young guys that they drafted doing their part off the bench. One of the most impossible things in sports is drafting a young guy then convincing him "Your role is off the bench, not a starter". The Thunder not only did that with one guy, but they were able to get multiple young pieces to buy into that. Massive props.
Jalen and Chet are amazing. SGA is overrated. OKC can get cheaper role players who can shoot
Again, you guys have ZERO understanding of how the NBA operates.
The only reason that situation APPEARS to be happening is that ALL of those guys are on ROOKIE CONTRACTS, AND THERE ARE NO DVPC PLAYERS ON THE TEAM. At the moment, there is no contractual hierarchy on the team. That is going to change soon.
As the contract extension come due, and the premium rookies move on to DVPC's, then all of the "joy and goodwill" disappears.
TWO of those premium rookies (Chet/Shai) will get the supermax contracts and the other players will only be offered standard pay, at which point those other players will move on to other teams.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.
It always looks good when everyone in on a low paid contract, and thus everyone is equal.
But once the team has to decided who gets max money and who gets standard money, the contractual hierarchy is set and those standard contracted players, who feel like they are an equal part of the team, will not be happy being saddled with contracts that pay them HALF of the money of the DVPC players.
When that occurs in the next season and a half, then we'll see how "family" oriented everyone is.
If history is reliable, and it is, none of those now equal players who will then be making half of the pay of the top two player, will be happy nor content with that "dis" from management, and all the lovey-dovey stuff will be out of the window, and those players will either become disruptive, and or become disruptive and move on to other teams.
And just that quickly, the amazing "rebuild" will be over.
All respect to the Thunder but the Celtics traded away Paul Pierce, KG, and Jason Terry for picks that immediately turned into Tatum and Brown, haven’t won a chip yet but they clearly are going to. Better rebuild as of right now Thunder have a chance to match that tho for sure
4 years before Tatum even got there. They made the conference finals with a 27yo IT the year before Tatum even got there. It hardly counts as a rebuild, considering they only missed the playoffs once in that time span
Please win a 1st round series first.
As long as they don’t face Dallas or Denver, they have a chance.
@@emmanuelmondesir8677I think they beat dallas but it would be a great series
@@emmanuelmondesir8677uh thunder have beaten nuggets more than and have split 50/50 with mavs. not concerned there.
What 7 or 8 seed is going to beat them? This team is complete and no one who isn’t a top tier in the West is going to knock them out.
@@chalnervassor9430tonight was a prime example of our main weakness no back up big
As a fan I have been where Thunder fans are now. Everything seems awesome because your young team is doing fantastic in the regular season for the first time. But, the front office HAS to take advantage, regardless of how promising the future looks. If you sit back and wait to develop, you never know what could go wrong. Injuries, locker room issues, the desire for change after a few years if they don't make it to a conference finals. Plus eventually these players are going to get their second contracts, and it will be harder to add good pieces once the core gets paid. Long time Thunder fans should remember what happened with KD, Russ, and Harden. This offseason will be key, they need to cash in the draft picks to address their weaknesses (particularly rebounding), and get more star power.
great video i have enjoyed watching OKC on league pass. Sam Presti is GM of the year without a doubt.
I know that young teams usually dont go far in the playoffs, and theyre not supposed to win at this stage... but, i think Thunder are an anomaly. I fully expect them to make a deep playoff run this year (probably not win the chip, tho, theyere still 2-3 years away from that imo)
Boricua Hispanic indian n black IAM. OKC is the favorite team of the year. They have 3 all-star players, Shai chet Jalen, the back up is great dort josh joe Jaylin Wallace Aaron Gordon . I hope they win the championship. Going to the final playoffs is great n they let the NBA next year they be more stronger . Shai is the MVP. God bless you young talented players.
We HIT With Josh Giddey He Just Didn’t End Up Being A Fit Wit Chet In The Lineup & Us Being One Of The Best Shooting Teams .. But Send Him To The Spurs You’ll See Him Thrive
Are you stupid? Pops WILL NOT BRING IN A PLAYER WHO WAS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
OKC has had an insane rebuild and that's coming from a Rockets fan. And yall are still gonna get another solid pick from us this year unless we somehow make it into the top 4
this video gave us bad luck for the spurs game
Sam Presti is the 🐐 at MyGM in 2K
Choosing Westbrook over Harden was his biggest mistake. Lost a dynasty. He is repeating by choosing SGA over Jalen. SGA is overrated
@@carlocalingasan998 Jalen is better, thank you! They'll see
Nba world on notice 🙏🏽
there is a nonzero chance Josh doesn’t work out and we STILL made out crazy between Dub, Chet, Wiggs and Lu
SGA has to be one of the BEST abreveations of the NBA
Win a championship first. I do think they will eventually but need to win one first to even be considered that. And probably multiply to actually be the best ever since the potential these players have
Honestly even if they don’t win anytime soon they have so many picks in both rounds they can move on from players with ease and have two huge trade where they are giving away 2-4 first rounds and pick swaps that really at pointless to me but it looks nice on paper.
Clueless. Rookie contracted players are irrelevant in the playoffs. The union contract says so.
Also, "moving on from players with ease" is the absolute opposite of "building a team", because that demonstrates a complete lack of loyalty by the team and keeps the team loaded with rookie contracted players, who are irrelevant in the playoffs.
Great scouting and even better players development, that is not talked about enough. Honestly, apart from a few Clippers fans (who are so rare anyway) I did not see anybody saying Shai would develop to be an all-NBA player, let alone a MVP favorite! I had him at best as similar to Jazz Donovan Mitchell, and he has already surpassed Cavs Donovan Mitchell! I thought Lu Dort would be Andre Roberson 2.0, not a high salary, good pick for his value, but no offensive capability, and he's so much better. I did not think Chet would be able to have such an impact with his thin frame. Jalen Williams and Josh Giddie are the only ones who perform roughly to the level I expected, even a little bit better.
I don't know about any top picks they made that really missed these last years. They have built a great culture, their players seem to all enjoy playing with each other and under Daigneault's coaching, behind the leadership of SGA!
It is really the perfect rebuild.
They fastest rebuilds always come from one team swindling another Parrish to Celtics Pau to the Lakers pierce and garnett to the nets this is one of the few times a team swindle themselves
I love this. A twelve-year-old who has yet to see even one generational cycle of the NBA, let alone the understanding that comes with the experience of seeing 4/5 generational cycles, anointing a team that has yet to win a playoff game, as the best rebuild of all time.
So let me help you out. The new, vicious, Tax Apron penalties kick in this off-season.
The Thunder have all this talent (again, who have yet to win even one playoff game together), but because of the new Tax Apron penalties, they will not be able to keep (pay) all of that talent. So the team you see today will not be the team on the court two seasons from now.
Because of these Tax Apron considerations, the OKC "rebuild" will turn into the OKC "tear down" maybe even before this team even wins a couple of playoff series.
It's not about "basketball". It's about money and union contracts.
The Tax Apron is forcing a situation in which teams will only be able to pay top dollar to two of it's players, and the rest have to take a vastly lower salary to stay on the team.
So obviously Chet and Shai will get their max contracts. But the other guys simply won't stay on a team in which Chet/Shai get all the money and they get basically get "supporting cast" dollars, when they will feel as if they are an equal part of the team.
That's not how money and human emotions operate.
The NBA is changing over the next couple of seasons. Gone are the days where teams will be allowed to pay off all the egos. OKC (Presti) has already had to let Harden go because the Thunder didn't have the money to pay him. Now with the Apron Tax, it becomes virtually even more impossible for a small market team to pay more than the two allocated max-contract slots.
Don't be surprised to see this version of the Thunder to follow the exact same path as the Durant/Ibaka/Harden/Westbrook team, a couple of decent years with the young "stars", and then the inevitable team break-up over money.
Based on history, there is no other way it can go down.
Be quiet
The nuggets did it extremely fast. Only a 5 year turnaround
tell me the Celtics are obviously what of the perfect rebuild looks like not only did they win a championship they got rid of their guys a year before they were terrible they were only really bad for like maybe two years they not only got all of their star players from the draft. They got a good amount of their bench pieces from the draft and made the smart trades and also made the finals. This team hasn’t even playoff won a series yet to me, I think they’re a team that could be on upset alert in the playoffs
Some teams rebuild so they can win games. Some rebuild to win championships. Witch one is OKC? Do like watching them play. Thinking Nuggets rebuild was better. in Jokic 6th year they won it all And every one on that team came after Jokic. In his first year first time over 500 in awhile and he was coming off the bench. OKC is showing the rest of the league how to build a winning team. Rebuilding is easy when you get a Jokic. "Young cheap talenlent" good point.
I love the way you guys are so blindly confident in a team that has yet to win a playoff game and who, like every other NBA team, because of the Tax Apron penalties, will only be able to keep TWO of those players on the roster.
Good vid although I disagree with your take on Josh. No way he could be classed as a miss looking back from this point.
I needa stop you right at the top where you say OKC have become a championship contender
Now, I made the call the second Chet was drafted, that OKC would seed high in the West this season, and in hyperbole, I’ve suggested the season after this will be the chip szn.
Realistically, they’ll contend next season. This season they absolutely won’t trouble the West.
jinxed it
Nobody else deserves a coach of the year award more than spo. Spoelstra is long overdue for one, especially with how many line up changes the heat have had this year. Without spo the heat are nothing
The Knicks and nets come to mind but the thunder had prime star assets
I love my squad
OKC is king at rebuilds ⚡️they went from KD Harden and Russ (serge too)to this which is incredible reminds of what Green Bay has done since the 90s at least at this rate. The nets make me incredibly angry to this day all they needed to do was pay Irving yah they’re stupid went all in and folded 😂 I think trading Russ exposed him as not a winner he finally settled in somewhere though and can change the story still as a role player
I just don't understand how you draft 2 all starts in one draft lol shits crazy
wb the bulls in the beginning of the drose era
Hopefully the "best GM in the league" doesn't ruin this rebuild by trading a future MVP for pennies like the last one.
Okc about to really speed run a dynasty 😂😂
I wish they would have traded some picks for nic claxton or jerit allen this year rebounding will be their undoing this year
as a rockets fan, i wish we could draft correctly like okc, we have had some hits and misses but i really hope we trade jalen green, doesn’t make it any better that you all have our pick this year because we desperately need it!
Josh Giddy for Jalen Green straight up?
@@MrKwatts27 no thanks
The Rockets have done everything right the thunder literally got blessed by getting SGA in the trade but honestly Thompson and Whitmore look like they could be the building pieces with Ap and Jabari Smith Jalen Green is another question. I think he clearly doesn’t fit this team wouldn’t be surprised if he’s traded away next year that would really suck but I still don’t blame the team for drafting the best available player. Also Josh Giddy is a creep we good. 😂
Still can’t get over trading SGA
Still haven't gotten a chip so like chillax the glazing is craZy.
You're just saying generic terms, has a legit rebuild actually won a Championship? So trade their franchise player and win a Championship from the assets from that trade. The Championship becomes irrelevant as the standard isn't that level
@@DC-YTC the championship will NEVER be irrelevant. The chip is THE goal. Every team is competing for the chip, every player is fighting for the chip and every trade is there for the ultimate purpose of the chip. Teams would trade their next 10 years for one chip.
@@DC-YTCthe definition of rebuild is tearing a meh team down and then trading/ drafting your way to the top. Every single team that won a chip had a rebuild at some point that led to a chip.
Pacers might pass them soon for best rebuild
Hopefully they keep chet and j dub and its not a trade james harden instead of paying him situation again
Ill just let you have this for now
OKC can use all of that draft capital to trade up in every draft from now until 2030 if they want to
Only team with a brighter future than the thunder is the spurs because… ya know
It’s not done yet. Presti fucked up Wien he had to pay everyone last time and it could happen again. #smallmarketcurse
Doggonit Cone, close but no cigar.
Yes, possibly the greatest rebuild of time, but it started when Presti traded PG and Russell.
Luck? What was the second best rebuild of all time? Arguably the 1st rebuild of Presti's career? Durant, Russell, Harden, Serge? Once maybe, but twice, in a row? Com'on
Shai. Think about what you said about the PG trade regarding Shai.
IMO, Shai is a better foundation to build a team on than KD ever was. Why? Because Shai utilizes his teammates better. There was never an OKC team that included Durant that finished with more than 3 players that averaged double-digit scoring. This team has 5.
There are way more unknowns about a player coming out of college than there is about a young player already in the league.
Presti has always had an eye for talent, look at Sabonis. Which brings me to Chet. See the Gonzaga connection?
Presti shocked everyone when he chose Russell. Three straight triple-double seasons, in a row AFTER Durant left, btw. And yet Dub and Cason was luck?
Don't mistake talent for luck and Sam Presti has surreal talent.
I'm tired of defending what happened with Harden. Considering where the ownership group of the Thunder stood at the time, there was no way they could risk the financial future on a player that had just totally choked in the NBA Finals. A characteristic that has defined Harden's entire career, BTW.
In Presti we trust, that you count on.
Glad to see OKC do this without tanking
Except they did tank: 2020-2022
What do you mean they totally tanked they got rid all of their good players and kept the young cheap players they literally made the playoffs and instantly traded Chris Paul that’s the definition of tanking 😂
the Bank of Presti is gonna be open forever. NBA Blackrock lol
Rockets rebuild was a whole year later, not a fair comparison
Yeah, I don’t know what this guy is talking about. I said rebuild is when you get rid of all of your best players. The only reason they couldn’t trade Chris Paul is because he had no trade value. That’s why when they made the playoffs, they instantly traded him away. I think Houston shouldn’t really count since they did it as in the 2020-2021 season and it was literally during the season when they had to start a rebuild so it obviously wasn’t planned
How can it be the best when they haven’t won anything 😂 looks good on paper but it has to actually translate. The Utah jazz a couple years ago went from bottom feeders to running the west draft good prospects etc etc…….. but they walked away with nothing at the end. The rebuild hasn’t been completed much less “best of all time”. There has to be a payout first
It’s different because Utah never drafted KD James harden west brook ibaka okc already has a track record of making good decisions when it comes to players Utah doesn’t
@@Toomuchfetti I js threw them out there as a random example idc about utah just saying the rebuild isnt complete if you dont win anything.....
They havent won anything. Lets all calm down.
People will have a serious reality check once OKC faces a veteran playoff underdog team.
They didn’t even win a ring
Best rebuild of all time is the Mavericks. I know y’all scared
Lmfaoo no… they had a great rebuild but let’s be real this is overhyping them by quite a bit… like atleast make and win a playoff series first before having this conversation
For real they haven’t even won a playoff series honestly, the best rebuild so far has been the Celtics I mean they literally won a championship and got rid of their core that takes guts to they were only bad for like 2 years and have made the finals
Can’t wait for the Nuggets to beat them in the second round 🔥🔥🔥
How many playoff wins do they have to make them championship contenders? As far as I know, I would take Steph and the warriors over the thunder in a series today. The thunder have little to no playoff experience and playing in the the bay with that crowd in the playoffs, the lights may prove to be to bright for this young thunder team because they have almost NO playoff experience. Hell even in the thunder arena vs the warriors the lights may prove to be to bright for such an inexperienced team. Take off the orange and blue glasses
Kevin Durant Harden Ibaka Westbrook was the first rebuild and it was better than this. First find a way to keep your star players and then we’ll talk.
They will keep them. Yall big mad💀
Eh the Celtics have had a better rebuild.
Look, man. You're gonna have to promise not to post about OKC during thr playoffs because this is getting ridiculous.
“Don’t post about an underrated, rarely covered team who is first in the west and also your personal favorite franchise” you know how stupid you sound. Keep your opinions in your and your mouth shut. Keep doing your thing @ThreeCone real basketball and Thunder fans like myself love these videos. #ThunderUp
Thunder first round exit lol
Thunder will probably lose round 1. Respect the rebuild but they’ve shown regular season success. Stop getting too high.
Absolutely pathetic franchise.