As the title states, every thunder fan needs to relax. We are currently 17 games into the season, or, 20.7% of the way through it. We have been playing out of our minds with shooting %'s that we should have expected to regress to a degree.
The team is still incredibly young. Extremely young. We barely made the play in last season and didn’t even get into the play off’s. Teams rarely, if ever, make the jump from play in to finals contenders like this sub seems to expect.
We have improved a great deal, that is undefinable. But we were not making an 8 spot jump in standings if we are being realistic. Mark is also young. Very young in terms of career experience. He was not a relatively well known coach before coming to okc and he, alongside the rest of this squad have a lot to learn and work out. Stop calling for his head/resignation/whatever other extreme reaction half this place seems to want. He will work it out, and if anyone has their thumb on the pulse of the team, it’s certainly not us couch coaches.
The giddey stuff has thrown an extremely unfavourable microscope on the entirety of okc. It would no doubt be causing a lot of discomfort for all of our players and the reaction from some before anything concrete has come out from any verifiable source does not help.
We have a few glaring holes in our on court game. Mostly a lack of size and rebounding. On top of this the addition of chet seems to have nullified a lot of giddeys starting 5 use. I have seen multiple instances of him being stuck on the 3pt wing while the rest of the team is finding the offence.
We will likely lose at least 50% of our next 10 games as we have a very tough schedule ahead. THAT IS OKAY. We aren’t trying to win it all this year. We are trying to see what our core unit plays like and how far we can take it with its current iteration. Anything over top 8 is considered fantastic. Anything in the top 4 is a God send because frankly, the west is stacked. There’s a good chance we don’t get to finals even if we finish top 2 purely due to the older experienced sides.
Let’s all just take a deep breath and smell the roses. We have done well. We are doing well. Our ship is being rocked right now, but we are in the best spot of probably any side in the league to weather any storms that come our way, largely due to the genius of presti and uh, picks. Assisted by a great coach and one of the most talented and deep rosters we have ever had.
It’s all going to be okay thunder fans.
“You mean I cant properly CRITICIZE the team because it satiates my cynical mental health?”
Thunder fans should discuss what they want to discuss. That’s why we are all here. Attempting to eliminate any negative commentary is ridiculous.
It’s always the “Relaxxxx guys. We are only x games into the season.”
This. Until the season is over.
Because it is? Why should we be panicking and stressed about where we are right now? If we finish inside the top 8 in any capacity, we have improved on last season. Why do we need to be a top4 side? We are young, super young. Why do you expect us to be competing for a ring in our first year of having a healthy squad finally??
So yes, relax. We don’t need to win it all to have a successful season like so many here seem to think.
How dare we be tied for 3rd best record in the Western Conference 😤
Really… I’m only here for news anymore. Way too much nonsense opinions floating around
No one said it was a bad thing. What is bad is the people acting like the world is over because we have dropped the last 2 games and are no longer top 2 in the west.
It’s going to get worse as Coach D pisses off more games sticking with Giddey. Watch and see. It’s coming. We are down the last two winnable games due to coaching. We won’t win many of the next 15 or so, if Coach D plans to continue to stubbornly stick with the same formula.