Yes we are getting out rebounded every single game. Yes we need to address that issue. However it is not as easy as ‘just get a big body!’ Right now we are building the team with high characters young players, high basketball IQs, long arms, can pass and shoot and drive, and he needs to be able to defend multiple positions. This is Dennis Rodman with a three point shot.
There’s just no such player available in the market right now. It would take an all star package to trade for this player and it’s up to debate if we are this desperate already.
This is exactly what im thinking. Yeah we could go get a PF that rebounds like crazy, but guarantee it would be a big whos probably limited offensively and defensively. We would be sacrificing on the versatile, dribble, pass, shoot play style that this team is built around and our offense would suffer. If there was a PF that fits this mold PLUS can be a presence on the board, then you get get him. But that type of player is an all star/all nba player that cant be acquired easily
Are they even looking is my question.
With as many draft picks Thunder has, probably not. Ideology might be one of those picks we will try to develop one.
I think there’s been a concerted effort from OKC to get bigs who are a threat from the outside and who can keep the ball moving… One of the consequences of building a team like that is that even bigs who rebound well won’t be putting up the same types of rebounding numbers with OKC that they’d be able to with other teams… OKC will ask more from them offensively, and lots of the things they’ll be asked to do on offense will take them further away from the basket.
I would sure like to see the Thunder seriously search for a big the next draft. A big seems to have made a lot of difference for the Mavericks.
Do we have the Clipper’s unprotected pick in 2025 Cuz Cooper Flagg check all those boxes.
Imagine Aaron Gordon on this team