The crucial mistake OKC made was not going over the luxury tax. As a team with championship aspirations, your suppose to go over the luxury tax to keep your core guys together in order to contend for a championship.
What's funny is if they just amnestied perkins they would of been under the tax or just pay harden cause they ended up paying more salary repeater taxes and going over cap yearly over the long run just to compete after 2014 and never won a playoff series post kd anyways so whoops oh well
(unrelated but to your point) This is part of why I think the Grizzlies aren't going to contend super soon, even though they're on an upwards trend. They're easily the cheapest team in the NBA
@@omb_eli3476 no shit. But he left okc dead in the water when they were up 3-1 against the best team in the west and were trying to find a 3rd option. So i call bullshit.
I watched a interview with perkins and he said harden wanted to be the main guy so that also played a role in harden getting traded and wanting out. Perkins was a former teamate with harden and kd russ
@@gotnthinonmeh644 I call boohoo. The thunder traded their 3rd superstar for kevin Martin and Russ kept putting up 20% fg numbers when it counted. If you think Durant quit on the thunder against the warriors then that's better than Russ who sucked just as bad in that series but kept cashing his paycheck.
At least you got to see Durant play at a contending level instead of watching your top pick get injured after a very short time. *glances sideways at Greg Oden*
As someone who only got into the NBA in the last few years, these videos are amazing to help me understand what I missed in the last few years. High quality, 10710 visuals, well paced storytelling. I appreciate you. Keep it up!
The flow of your videos is so on point that your 20-30min epics feels like 5, and your production value is top notch as well. Your channel deserves to blow up in a big way more so than any other I've watched. Your videos are so good that you could make an hour long documentary on the player or team I hate the most and I'd still happily watch it!
Being born in okc and a die hard thunder fan, watching the replays of the lakers series literally brought tears to my eyes. That was a crazy time to be in okc
no regrets as a thunder fan, still love KD. he helped a football state learn to love basketball by displaying greatness every night. rings dont mean everything, just look at his time with golden state
Idk man those rings still count I get that ppl will always say you went with a 73-9 team but his skill and everyone else has brought them the rings which will count in my book
@@gtjaaa5551 absolutely agree, gsw rings count for sure. I just dont agree that his time in okc was a failure, and im not sure KD found fulfillment in golden state from said rings or he would have stayed there too
For a guy who plays with them for a living, Kevin Durant certainly has no balls. You can like the dude all you want, I’m not even a Thunder fan and I think dudes a straight up biatch
I still remember watching them during their "Big 3" period. In 2011, They had 3 future MVPs, looked super strong, got ate alive by Dirk. Bounced back & looked like they had a chance again, got demolished by the Heat. They just never could put it together for a complete Playoff run. They put together so many great "almost" campaigns.
Same in 2010. OKC gave Bryant a tough series but fell short at the end. The great players are the ones who are able to prevail when it didn't appear to be "their year", but they got it done anyway.
I think this is possibly one of the most bittersweet stories. franchise did one hell of a job selecting the players. who would've thought they would draft 3 MVP/HOF caliber players, and they would play so many years together, yet never win anything. I was always a Cavs fan but I liked OKC back then a lot. One of the funnest teams to play as on 2k11!!!!
Presti really did an amazing job especially since Russ and Harden were considered bad picks by a bunch of people when they happened. Also Reggie Jackson was an incredible pick in the late 20s. Presti literally did as good as anyone could have constructing the team initially the only bad part was letting Harden go. Other than that the only thing they couldve done better was get a superior coach to Brooks those prime years. The rest was just bad luck with injuries a few of those years that killed there chances.
I think its more of a "face palm" type story. Harden got drafted into one of the the best situations ever and he left it to ful his own desires. Goes to show that winning doesn't matter to a lot of superstars and money is king
The problem I have with KD leaving OKC is that he was one of the main reasons they choked the 3-1 lead and didn’t win the championship. It’s kinda like if you failed a mission in a video game, and instead of retrying with a different strategy, you just immediately look up cheats.
He's not obligated to remain at a team that he wasn't drafted to. He was a Seattle Supersonics team player, the owners just snaked the Seattle and in turn he did the same to OKC.
@Stone Weaver Actually, Tom Chambers did that in 1988 by becoming the first UFA in NBA league history. Do some research instead of just massaging the inside of LeBums thighs every time you open your mouth, kid.
@@FinessedAnalyzer no one has a problem of him leaving okc everybody would have understood but going to Golden state was the problem and it will forever have a negative correlation with his name he could have gone to clippers Boston back home To DC and many other contending teams but joining a team that just put a historic record and a championship franchise nah man
@@kedrprao nah there actually is a shit ton of reasons if you look into it lol one that comes to mind right away is the fact he literally lied to the team that Ezeli was rooting against his own team while he was injured so the team confronted him and made him cry
@@trejabo nobody talks about that or respects those "rings" lol. They are worthless. Even If i was on the floor instead of KD i would have 2 rings too. joining a 73 win team to win some "rings" doesn't make u a champ.
Those OKC teams were fun and Durant was incredibly humble. I’ll never forget how glad I was to see him win MVP and give his Mom all the credit. He knew how far he’d made it. Then, he got lost in the Twitterverse and became greedy and arrogant when he joined Golden State. All of these guys did gradually become divas and it’s sad considering the humble, team players they once were. You’d never see Harden be willing to come off the bench now. Sometimes, I wish I could go back to these days of the NBA when teams were still organically grown through the draft and smart, fair trades and everybody dreaded the big, bad Miami Heat.
@@jakebuchsbaum3348 No one has ever had an issue with Golden State until Durant joined. Everyone knows Golden State was built from the draft. It still doesn’t excuse the fact that Steph, Dray and Klay were all stars and then you add KD another superstar to the team which made them unbeatable. The NBA was not fun to watch those 2 durant years in GS because everyone knew they were going to win it all before the season even started.
Has a thunder fan these videos are a struggle but I miss these days when we were this good but the future is bright and I believe we have a lot of potential.Thanks to these guys for letting me fall in love with the game of basketball
That floor spacing with Russ, Adams and Roberson in 2016. They were good defensively but their offense became iso heavy and teams could swarm KD and Russ
100% correct. You can’t start 3 guys who can’t shoot 3’s. The Warriors could constantly double team KD/Russ. No wonder they shot terribly. And their 3rd best scorer was fricken Dion Waiters. KD/Russ had ZERO help on offense
@@steveno7058 facts bra Roberson is worse shooter ever and waiters averaged like 7ppg gs knew kd was the only shooter and forced him to beat them and he couldn’t but he went out swinging he took shots he just didn’t make them id rather him shoot rather than pass to Westbrook Roberson and adams
@@matheusmoraes6252 to be fair the warriors did not play very well in the first few games, while the OKC stars were making unsustainable difficult shots. The OKC stars cooled off during the rest of the series and Klay shined in game 6 and Steph shined in game 7
They had a surprinsingly poor execution on offense; always taking bad shots, very little ball movement, forcing plays etc... the only reason they were able to beat so many teams was due to raw individual talent, yet they lacked a solid offensive system, so when facing the more strategic Lakers, Spurs or Heat they just couldn't come up on top. Still they almost won multiple championships with the worst offensive team IQ I have ever seen in the NBA, wich is something that still shocks me to this day.
Fuck KD tbh bro, if he left for a different team that wasn’t crazy good it wouldn’t be bad but he sold the thunder when they had an easy chance to win then left for a super team and got his "real ring"
This video does a great job at really framing what KDs mindset was potentially like when he made his decision to go to Golden State. From the beginning, KDs team was never OKC, it was Seattle, and that team left to go somewhere else, really abandoning this idea of loyalty. Because honestly, how can you expect a player to be loyal when an organization can't do the same thing with a city. When OKC chose to ditch James Harden for financial reasons, that must have really left a mark for KD, a team trading away a player because of money, another example of failed loyalty. You can criticize KD for joining the Warriors, calling it a weak move or an easy move, but you can never criticize him for leaving OKC.
KD literally said golden state’s mentality and the way they play basketball made him tag along. Y’all gotta think of it from a hoop fanatics standpoint. The thunder had no real team system, neither did any of the other options he had available to him. Him and Russ traded iso possessions with no consistent shooters around, that’s not real basketball. Golden state allowed him to do that. As a fan of the nba obviously I didn’t like that, but as a hooper I can see why he went that route.
He was with Seattle for 1 year. Also harden was traded, didn't leave. Also joined the team he choked a 3-1 lead to so yea you can criticize him for it and the warriors were 73-9 already that basically ruined the NBA
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Fam you gotta emphasize that serge ibaka injury and how important it was against the spurs. Then also talk about how Russ' ego started expand and when KD went down for the 2015 season he fell in love with having the ball in his hands and started waiving off KD and truly believed he was the best player on the team. That whole season you could tell that KD wanted to leave crazy.
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Should've never traded Harden who was like 24 at that time. Plus, the haul that they got for him was stupidly low. Harden and 3 players for Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and picks? Tf. OKC undervalued Harden. At least they're poised to bounce back with like all the picks they have now.
Wasn’t even their offense the defense they played that entire 4th quarter was horrendous if you watch it Westbrook mostly but sometimes Durant sit and ball watch and let Klay and Curry loose for open shots
What sucked is that year the Thunder went to the Finals, we knew it was the beginning of a dynasty even tho they lost that one. Im from OKC. When they announced they traded Harden, I knew at that moment it was over. Oklahoma is mostly a football state and I heard a lot of people say, “We can replace a 6th man.” I knew these people didnt know what they were talking about. Harden was a potential franchise player who was a 6th man in name only. A 6th man doesn’t ordinarily come off the bench and drop 40 points multiple times a season. What’s even more sad was how little the Thunder got in return for Harden and Harden later coming out and saying that he wanted to stay in OKC and wouldve worked out a deal to stay had he not been traded.
@@Jamie7Towerz Dont blame me. Blame Seattle for not providing an amicable arena. The franchises are pretty much separated anyhow. Ur not going to see any Gary Payton jerseys hanging up.
@@tj5180 okc had no shooters and gs knew that kd had no choice but to take shots he still managed to shoot 43% and average 30ppg while being surrounded by no shooters
While I didn’t fully consider myself a Thunder fan, they were easily one of the most fun teams to watch during this time period. It’s such a shame that they weren’t able to win a chip with such a great team
as a harden fan i think its sad that he got drafted by a very good team, didnt win a ring, developed into the best shootingguard in the league, didnt win a ring, got traded to another extremely good team, didnt win a ring. i just hope he gets to wear a ring one day he deserves it
Bro just took us through my childhood memories it was a fun ride reliving these moments ik they were screwed when they traded James Harden it really depleted the momentum they had they could of one atleast one together
Great video. Also Kendrick Perkins was a big deal in giving up Harden because owners didn't want to go into luxury tax. I feel bad for Russ; sure he has his flaws but I felt the media was at times unfair to him. Out of most of his seasons, I think maybe only his Laker season deserves majority blame
Right. If you were around to watch this and experience it firsthand, you know that what we see now from Russ is not the same Russ from the early 2010s. It sucks to see tbh, because this squad had sooo much potential.
The Thunder (after trading harden) were just built poorly. Most of the team had piss poor shooters. Westbrook is good at attacking the basket, but not a shooter. KD was great shooter but he wasn't a floor general at all Teams need offense defense and intelligence to win. OKC had just 1 of those
Drafting MVP's in back to back to back seasons is unreal, even more impressive when considering how common it is to completely miss or flop in consecutive drafts.
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@@razkable good point....but look at the number of all star players that have come in and out of OKC since they moved from Seattle and all they have to show for it is one finals appearance?
Remember the format in the 2012 Finals was 2-3-2 so after splitting it it’s hard to win 3 away games against the Heat. Also in 2013 Westbrook was injured to Pat Bev running into his knee.
The Thunder were the Warriors before the Warriors. Y'know I recently noticed there were a lot of passing the torch moments in the 2010's. First from the Celtics to Heat, then from the Heat to Thunder, then Thunder to Warriors. Now obviously the latter two dont feel like that in heinsight (Harden trade and Durant signing with the Warriors) but they felt like that at the time.
The crucial mistake OKC made was not going over the luxury tax. As a team with championship aspirations, your suppose to go over the luxury tax to keep your core guys together in order to contend for a championship.
What's funny is if they just amnestied perkins they would of been under the tax or just pay harden cause they ended up paying more salary repeater taxes and going over cap yearly over the long run just to compete after 2014 and never won a playoff series post kd anyways so whoops oh well
to think they chose ibaka and perkins over Harden, my god did they f'd it up
Fax
@Stone Weaver ibaka was really good with okc. But perkins wasn't
(unrelated but to your point) This is part of why I think the Grizzlies aren't going to contend super soon, even though they're on an upwards trend. They're easily the cheapest team in the NBA
He went from being loved, and wanting to win. To winning, but wanting to be loved.
And now KD doesn't win anything and he is disliked..same with harden i guess
I think KD even said it himself when James Harden got traded they struggled to find a third option to replace him.
they literally found oladipo and jumped ship. shouldve tried 1 more year tbh
@@gotnthinonmeh644 no they were better with harden,
@@omb_eli3476 no shit. But he left okc dead in the water when they were up 3-1 against the best team in the west and were trying to find a 3rd option. So i call bullshit.
I watched a interview with perkins and he said harden wanted to be the main guy so that also played a role in harden getting traded and wanting out. Perkins was a former teamate with harden and kd russ
@@gotnthinonmeh644 I call boohoo. The thunder traded their 3rd superstar for kevin Martin and Russ kept putting up 20% fg numbers when it counted. If you think Durant quit on the thunder against the warriors then that's better than Russ who sucked just as bad in that series but kept cashing his paycheck.
As an Okc fan I’ll never get over this such pain bruh
Being a okc fan must be really hard right now lol
@@mruberlicious2853 Giddey is giving me hope fir the future Honesty!
Take seatles team get karma
Won’t win till the Sonics are back refuse to let a team “win” off of another teams downfall
At least you got to see Durant play at a contending level instead of watching your top pick get injured after a very short time.
*glances sideways at Greg Oden*
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Exactly for me this is my first season !!
Haha same situation here man
SAME!
LMAO I read this like you were an nba player for a sec.
As a recent fan. I imagine you’re more than happy with all the kneeling and bitching about social justice. 😂
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Fr his videos are great
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wym brother you dont even know him…weird asf
That’s what the other officer said to him before he stepped on Floyd’s neck
The flow of your videos is so on point that your 20-30min epics feels like 5, and your production value is top notch as well. Your channel deserves to blow up in a big way more so than any other I've watched. Your videos are so good that you could make an hour long documentary on the player or team I hate the most and I'd still happily watch it!
faaacts ...did not intend to listen to the entire video
It especially feels like 5 minutes when you listen on 2x speed, lol.
Being born in okc and a die hard thunder fan, watching the replays of the lakers series literally brought tears to my eyes. That was a crazy time to be in okc
no regrets as a thunder fan, still love KD. he helped a football state learn to love basketball by displaying greatness every night. rings dont mean everything, just look at his time with golden state
Idk man those rings still count I get that ppl will always say you went with a 73-9 team but his skill and everyone else has brought them the rings which will count in my book
@@gtjaaa5551 absolutely agree, gsw rings count for sure. I just dont agree that his time in okc was a failure, and im not sure KD found fulfillment in golden state from said rings or he would have stayed there too
@@gregburrow3350 amen. i hate when they say those rings dont count. 73-9 or not he was still a big part of that team
For a guy who plays with them for a living, Kevin Durant certainly has no balls. You can like the dude all you want, I’m not even a Thunder fan and I think dudes a straight up biatch
@@Springfeeeel3 Um okay well I’m not really sure what to say
I still remember watching them during their "Big 3" period.
In 2011, They had 3 future MVPs, looked super strong, got ate alive by Dirk.
Bounced back & looked like they had a chance again, got demolished by the Heat.
They just never could put it together for a complete Playoff run.
They put together so many great "almost" campaigns.
Same in 2010. OKC gave Bryant a tough series but fell short at the end.
The great players are the ones who are able to prevail when it didn't appear to be "their year", but they got it done anyway.
No idea how this dude doesn’t have at LEAST 100k subscribers yet... his videos are so good
I think this is possibly one of the most bittersweet stories. franchise did one hell of a job selecting the players. who would've thought they would draft 3 MVP/HOF caliber players, and they would play so many years together, yet never win anything. I was always a Cavs fan but I liked OKC back then a lot. One of the funnest teams to play as on 2k11!!!!
@Lucas Pessoa Seattle is okc
Presti really did an amazing job especially since Russ and Harden were considered bad picks by a bunch of people when they happened. Also Reggie Jackson was an incredible pick in the late 20s. Presti literally did as good as anyone could have constructing the team initially the only bad part was letting Harden go. Other than that the only thing they couldve done better was get a superior coach to Brooks those prime years. The rest was just bad luck with injuries a few of those years that killed there chances.
I think its more of a "face palm" type story. Harden got drafted into one of the the best situations ever and he left it to ful his own desires.
Goes to show that winning doesn't matter to a lot of superstars and money is king
@@vulcanraven9701 gotta agree
at this rate will retire having played on 6 teams, zero rings. Maybe Durant might get one more title, tough to say
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High quality ! Just like the epic scene of the heroic police officer ending big George Floyd’s lyfe
The problem I have with KD leaving OKC is that he was one of the main reasons they choked the 3-1 lead and didn’t win the championship. It’s kinda like if you failed a mission in a video game, and instead of retrying with a different strategy, you just immediately look up cheats.
He didnt trade harden, nor was he the one that poorly constructed the roster
He's not obligated to remain at a team that he wasn't drafted to. He was a Seattle Supersonics team player, the owners just snaked the Seattle and in turn he did the same to OKC.
@Stone Weaver Actually, Tom Chambers did that in 1988 by becoming the first UFA in NBA league history. Do some research instead of just massaging the inside of LeBums thighs every time you open your mouth, kid.
good analogy
@@FinessedAnalyzer no one has a problem of him leaving okc everybody would have understood but going to Golden state was the problem and it will forever have a negative correlation with his name he could have gone to clippers Boston back home To DC and many other contending teams but joining a team that just put a historic record and a championship franchise nah man
Great work as always! Please do why Mark Jackson got fired! It’s much needed so people realize he’s not coaching for A LOT of reasons lol.
Agreed 😂 this one is a rollercoaster.
I dont know about "A LOT" of reasons but one i remember is that his insistence on playing David Lee over Draymond Green
@@kedrprao nah there actually is a shit ton of reasons if you look into it lol one that comes to mind right away is the fact he literally lied to the team that Ezeli was rooting against his own team while he was injured so the team confronted him and made him cry
Always relying on 1vs1 instead of ball movement. Hindered Klay, and too much load on Curry's ankles
I can't express how much I love ur videos. Such high quality and good story telling
Always a good day when Dylan uploads a video
It wasnt't that KD left. It is about where he left to...
Facts
He left to the team that recruited him they flew 5hrs to the Hamptons while kd was on vacation
he got 2 rings from where he left to😂
@@trejabo nobody talks about that or respects those "rings" lol. They are worthless. Even If i was on the floor instead of KD i would have 2 rings too. joining a 73 win team to win some "rings" doesn't make u a champ.
@@lameloball2867 Who gives a fuck what u think? KD won those rings on a REAL...not STOLEN team!
Those OKC teams were fun and Durant was incredibly humble. I’ll never forget how glad I was to see him win MVP and give his Mom all the credit. He knew how far he’d made it. Then, he got lost in the Twitterverse and became greedy and arrogant when he joined Golden State. All of these guys did gradually become divas and it’s sad considering the humble, team players they once were. You’d never see Harden be willing to come off the bench now. Sometimes, I wish I could go back to these days of the NBA when teams were still organically grown through the draft and smart, fair trades and everybody dreaded the big, bad Miami Heat.
he could've joined any team but gsw and cle and nobody would hate on him
I do agree with you but golden state’s team was mostly built through the draft
@@jakebuchsbaum3348 People just dont like super teams, even if most of the people on the team were home grown
@@jakebuchsbaum3348 No one has ever had an issue with Golden State until Durant joined. Everyone knows Golden State was built from the draft. It still doesn’t excuse the fact that Steph, Dray and Klay were all stars and then you add KD another superstar to the team which made them unbeatable. The NBA was not fun to watch those 2 durant years in GS because everyone knew they were going to win it all before the season even started.
Kevin is a lot of things but humble is not one of them dude his personality is complete dog shit
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That floor spacing with Russ, Adams and Roberson in 2016. They were good defensively but their offense became iso heavy and teams could swarm KD and Russ
100% correct. You can’t start 3 guys who can’t shoot 3’s. The Warriors could constantly double team KD/Russ. No wonder they shot terribly. And their 3rd best scorer was fricken Dion Waiters. KD/Russ had ZERO help on offense
@@steveno7058 and still managed to win 3 games against Warriors
@@steveno7058 facts bra Roberson is worse shooter ever and waiters averaged like 7ppg gs knew kd was the only shooter and forced him to beat them and he couldn’t but he went out swinging he took shots he just didn’t make them id rather him shoot rather than pass to Westbrook Roberson and adams
@@matheusmoraes6252 to be fair the warriors did not play very well in the first few games, while the OKC stars were making unsustainable difficult shots. The OKC stars cooled off during the rest of the series and Klay shined in game 6 and Steph shined in game 7
They had a surprinsingly poor execution on offense; always taking bad shots, very little ball movement, forcing plays etc... the only reason they were able to beat so many teams was due to raw individual talent, yet they lacked a solid offensive system, so when facing the more strategic Lakers, Spurs or Heat they just couldn't come up on top. Still they almost won multiple championships with the worst offensive team IQ I have ever seen in the NBA, wich is something that still shocks me to this day.
Great Job Dylan, feel free to finish adding the rest of OKC's history to present and dropping another video!
the amount of effort in these videos is amazing. keep up the great work!!
Man I live for these documentaries
I hope u live for more than that :(
As a person coming from Seattle, I’m glad KD left OKC. Even more happy that he won a championship.
what I needed to hear.
Fuck KD tbh bro, if he left for a different team that wasn’t crazy good it wouldn’t be bad but he sold the thunder when they had an easy chance to win then left for a super team and got his "real ring"
I didn’t like him going to GSW. But I guess he really wanted that ring.
Was looking for this, Sonics fan since 1993
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This video does a great job at really framing what KDs mindset was potentially like when he made his decision to go to Golden State. From the beginning, KDs team was never OKC, it was Seattle, and that team left to go somewhere else, really abandoning this idea of loyalty. Because honestly, how can you expect a player to be loyal when an organization can't do the same thing with a city. When OKC chose to ditch James Harden for financial reasons, that must have really left a mark for KD, a team trading away a player because of money, another example of failed loyalty. You can criticize KD for joining the Warriors, calling it a weak move or an easy move, but you can never criticize him for leaving OKC.
Dirk Nowitzki couldve left Dallas to chase a ring. But he didnt. Durant shouldve done the same.
KD literally said golden state’s mentality and the way they play basketball made him tag along. Y’all gotta think of it from a hoop fanatics standpoint. The thunder had no real team system, neither did any of the other options he had available to him. Him and Russ traded iso possessions with no consistent shooters around, that’s not real basketball. Golden state allowed him to do that. As a fan of the nba obviously I didn’t like that, but as a hooper I can see why he went that route.
@@cowboytanaka6675 . u cant compare..
He was with Seattle for 1 year. Also harden was traded, didn't leave. Also joined the team he choked a 3-1 lead to so yea you can criticize him for it and the warriors were 73-9 already that basically ruined the NBA
@@somregularguy damn you’re right man. Guess I should listen to you over the guy who’s in the thick of it all, such a casual smh 🤣
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Loving these vids
I just found out about this channel & i gotta say 10-10 I find myself coming back to watch these I think you’re alongside Mike K & Jxmmy tbh. The knowledge, depth, editing & all is just amazing. You inspire me to make my own but Ur editing is way greater then mine lol
These videos are great just wanted to say that 👏
Fam you gotta emphasize that serge ibaka injury and how important it was against the spurs. Then also talk about how Russ' ego started expand and when KD went down for the 2015 season he fell in love with having the ball in his hands and started waiving off KD and truly believed he was the best player on the team. That whole season you could tell that KD wanted to leave crazy.
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Should've never traded Harden who was like 24 at that time.
Plus, the haul that they got for him was stupidly low.
Harden and 3 players for Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and picks? Tf.
OKC undervalued Harden. At least they're poised to bounce back with like all the picks they have now.
Harden was not even 23 yet lol....he turned 23 after the trade in august for the 2012-2013 season so he was a young 23
They did get Steven Addams from that trade and lamb post thunder became a good player pre injury but still
Fr that trade was a F u to the other stars on the team. Most likely when Kd started having doubts about the organization
4th quarter of game 6
Curry/thompson: 25 points, 9-15 fg
Durant/westbrook: 12 points, 3-14 fg, 6 turnovers
Wasn’t even their offense the defense they played that entire 4th quarter was horrendous if you watch it Westbrook mostly but sometimes Durant sit and ball watch and let Klay and Curry loose for open shots
Been waiting for this hahaha
What sucked is that year the Thunder went to the Finals, we knew it was the beginning of a dynasty even tho they lost that one.
Im from OKC. When they announced they traded Harden, I knew at that moment it was over.
Oklahoma is mostly a football state and I heard a lot of people say, “We can replace a 6th man.” I knew these people didnt know what they were talking about. Harden was a potential franchise player who was a 6th man in name only.
A 6th man doesn’t ordinarily come off the bench and drop 40 points multiple times a season.
What’s even more sad was how little the Thunder got in return for Harden and Harden later coming out and saying that he wanted to stay in OKC and wouldve worked out a deal to stay had he not been traded.
You're an evil person who have no business being associated with Seattle's team. SEPARATE THE DAMN HISTORIES ALREADY!!!!
@@Jamie7Towerz Dont blame me. Blame Seattle for not providing an amicable arena. The franchises are pretty much separated anyhow. Ur not going to see any Gary Payton jerseys hanging up.
What sucked this year was that George Floyd was still alive during this time
@@shelbyhaiketic4212 What sucked even more was my dad was still alive too. As were a lot of people that are missed.
@@StuUngar I’m saying it sucked that George Floyd was alive At that time, as in what a shame. He didn’t deserve to live, waisting air
babe wake up, dylandoesbasketball just posted
Your videos are another level🔥🔥🔥💪🏼
Y’all can blame Russ all you want but the reality is both of them sold when it was time to come through.
Fr. Kd had bad performances as well but durantsexuals like to blame russ and use him as a scapegoat
@@tj5180 okc had no shooters and gs knew that kd had no choice but to take shots he still managed to shoot 43% and average 30ppg while being surrounded by no shooters
Na westbrick is to blame lmao
Cringe
What an absolutely banger channel
I know you didn't mean any disrespect but Durant wasn't "handed" another All-Star appearance in 2012 he earned that spot
Love this channel 💯
The OKC of that era could have been what the GSW are today.
Love this channel.
It’s only a matter of time until we see the “How dylandoesbasketball Hit 100,000 Subscribers” vídeo drop
i say 10 years😂
While I didn’t fully consider myself a Thunder fan, they were easily one of the most fun teams to watch during this time period. It’s such a shame that they weren’t able to win a chip with such a great team
The Thunder were a phony team people like u fell for
@@Jamie7Towerz the hell you say young boy
Very detailed vid and I admire your dedication in making this kind of videos. Hopefully you make more vids like this
as a harden fan i think its sad that he got drafted by a very good team, didnt win a ring, developed into the best shootingguard in the league, didnt win a ring, got traded to another extremely good team, didnt win a ring. i just hope he gets to wear a ring one day he deserves it
One of the biggest "what ifs" of all-time.
you should have like a ESPN show or something! Love your videos
Bro just took us through my childhood memories it was a fun ride reliving these moments ik they were screwed when they traded James Harden it really depleted the momentum they had they could of one atleast one together
It wasnt't that KD left. It is about where he left to.... Nothing but bangers from this channel , keep going brother.
Crazy to see how these stars panned out. Legendary careers so far
Except for Perkins lol. That dude was trash as.
@@121jase lmao 😂
@@121jase that trash as dude at least has a ring and was a great asset to boston on that championship run.
sick video bro
Great video. Also Kendrick Perkins was a big deal in giving up Harden because owners didn't want to go into luxury tax. I feel bad for Russ; sure he has his flaws but I felt the media was at times unfair to him. Out of most of his seasons, I think maybe only his Laker season deserves majority blame
Right. If you were around to watch this and experience it firsthand, you know that what we see now from Russ is not the same Russ from the early 2010s. It sucks to see tbh, because this squad had sooo much potential.
The Thunder (after trading harden) were just built poorly. Most of the team had piss poor shooters. Westbrook is good at attacking the basket, but not a shooter. KD was great shooter but he wasn't a floor general at all
Teams need offense defense and intelligence to win. OKC had just 1 of those
@@vulcanraven9701 Westbrook is not a point guard. Also their coach was not good and once he was on the Wizards he got exposed.
@@ChairmanMo I agree with you. OKC had too many flaws
Drafting MVP's in back to back to back seasons is unreal, even more impressive when considering how common it is to completely miss or flop in consecutive drafts.
biggest failure from any ownership ever. 3 future mvps, scoring champion(s), and you didnt keep them together. smh the dynasty that never happened
as a big fan of both harden and Westbrook, this shit makes me shit bruh smh
Fr.
Started when said asshole owner they moved the team.
I must say that your presentation was very impressive… I’ve seen lesser work that is made by some so called professionals… very concise… the fact you have only this many subscribers is straight criminal…. Amazing content bro… you clearly have a brain and I hope to see you blossom
I've always said ESPN will do a 30 for 30 one of these days about how OKC fumbled the bag....you beat them to it
So did the magic with shaq penny anderson grant scott
@@razkable good point....but look at the number of all star players that have come in and out of OKC since they moved from Seattle and all they have to show for it is one finals appearance?
This channel is lit 🔥
As a Sonics fan, this video brought me great joy.
As a heat fan we loved the 2012 shared Fandom we had with you guys in the finals ..gave us good vibe energy to close them out
As a Warriors Fan I really hope you Sonics Fans get your team back hopefully soon, since the Kracken are garnering a lot of support already.
How can you be a fan to a defunct team?
@@sparkius30 Because their are tons of super sonics fans left.
Wake up babe! new dylandoesbasketball upload !!!!!!
Remember the format in the 2012 Finals was 2-3-2 so after splitting it it’s hard to win 3 away games against the Heat. Also in 2013 Westbrook was injured to Pat Bev running into his knee.
the sonics seahawks championship runs would’ve been legendary
First video of yours I've watched sir.
This s**t 🔥fire 🔥fire🔥
Keep going bro
Whoever scouted Harden's Memphis workout is basically a fortune teller 😭🤣
I’ve been here since 13 k content is so entertaining
I just want the Seattle SuperSonics back 😭
These videos are so great
When they traded Harden, it was over and I knew it. Westbrook became more and more unhinged as he tried filling a role he was not supposed to be in.
Stfu an jus say u didn’t watch an don’t know. Kd sold his soul to warriors.
Very nice video. Subcribed
Wow I fucking love this channel can't believe I just found it , watched like 6 videos back to back to back to back 🤣🤣🤣 keep em coming !!
Great vid Dylan! You should do the rise and fall of the John Wall Wizards or how the Hornets squandered Kemba Walker’s talent
banger 💯
(27:58) when Westbrook slapped that fans hand it was over Warriors took that personal 😂😂
Crazy to think that never again will they get lucky to draft another KD Russ and harden. It’ll be hard to atleast
I love your vids man
The Thunder were the Warriors before the Warriors. Y'know I recently noticed there were a lot of passing the torch moments in the 2010's. First from the Celtics to Heat, then from the Heat to Thunder, then Thunder to Warriors. Now obviously the latter two dont feel like that in heinsight (Harden trade and Durant signing with the Warriors) but they felt like that at the time.
When did the heat pass the torch to the thunder lol? they smoked them.
@@Orvillerede100then KD smoked lebron😅😅
@@marshallchristopher1304no the heat passed the torch to warriors
I'm literally wearing my OKC gear atm tonite. It's crazy how things turned out...
I know this ain't the point of this video .. but man.... that 2011 Dallas team was the most impressive championship run ever
Been waiting for this
You should have mentioned Serge ibaka's injury in 2014.
Deserve more subs this channrl