Will the Thunder continue to contend in the West? | Good Word with Goodwill

Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and Boston Globe’s Gary Washburn look at the young Thunder roster and whether it has the talent to run deep in the playoffs in years to come. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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I won’t say what coach it was, but there was a coach that I talked to before the playoffs and he said, and we just brought up Oklahoma City and he said, put them in an environment where it’s five minutes left in a, uh, not a close out game but just a close playoff game.

He actually said, game one of a playoff series, he said, would I as a coach be uncomfortable playing against them in their own building if they’re inexperienced and five minutes left in the game?

No, I wouldn’t be.

And I think even though it was a second round and they were on the road as opposed to being at home in that particular scenario, you could understand, I could totally understand what that coach was talking about and what he meant and it kind of beed itself out and you brought out one of my next point was gonna be, was she had an excellent off offensive series there.

I felt like when the game got slow, he could still get to the spots and get a bucket.

But Oklahoma City needed a second guy who could create double teams who could create some s some mismatches and make defenses uncomfortable.

Nobody was really able to do that.

I don’t see where Josh Getty fits on this team anymore, especially if she is gonna handle the ball so much.

But Garrett, we talked about this so much.

The Western conference moves so fast.

We can’t assume that Oklahoma City is just going to automatically be there.

I think they will be in contention but you can’t bank on this stuff from year to year anymore like you used to.

No, because there’s teams coming, you know, there’s, there’s gonna be some young teams coming.

We don’t know what to expect out of Sacramento next year.

What the Warriors do in the off season, what the hell’s gonna go on in Phoenix?

But Portland’s gonna take a step…

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Publish date : 2024-05-20 20:15:36

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