Rumor Bleacher Report (lol): OKC looking to trade Westbrook before season starts?

He didn't have to win back what he never lost.

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Right there's a damn fine title for a Country song.

 

FOR ANOTHER FUCKING TEAM! And he's not as good as the player taken MANY picks later by Presti!

I'm going to give up now. You're getting disingenuous, and you are evidently indefatigable.

 

Revisionist history. We beat LAC in Game 3 and were ahead in Game 4 when CP3 went down. Stotts had made adjustments (using Plumlee as a distributor and putting Harkelss on CP3) that had turned the tide of the series BEFORE Paul got injured.

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Just like Reggie Jackson. You count that as a feather in Presti's cap, but he turned him into an overpriced back up and gave up a future 1st round pick in the process.

I honestly don't give a fuck who Olshey drafted before he came to Portland. That's completely irrelevant to me. He's obviously improved as he's gained experience. Thats all that matters to me - who he's drafted since he became our GM.

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Does that mean that Durant didn't take the easy way out, as he went to a worse team?

I agree with Iggy, though, that the Thunder were the most impressive team in the playoffs this past season.

 

I bet Iggy loves the taste of Kevin's sweaty balls after games.

 

Best at choking?

Doesn't matter, That team no longer exists.

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The Thunder didn't even make the playoffs without Durant. That's how great that team that Presti built was.

Blazers were 5th in the west without Aldridge.

 

How did he whif on Whiteside? Other than a rumor that we were going to meet with him, there was no indication that Neil was even pursuing him.

 

I think that probably says more about Aldridge than Olshey/Presti?

 

Down 2-1 in the series and winning game 4 = getting destroyed? That's interesting.

 

It also says a lot about how valuable Durant was to that team.

 

Westbrick to gsw for curry and durrant.

 

Isn't that more of a function of how great a player Durant is rather than anything Presti did? I mean you could put Durant onto any roster in the NBA and they immediately become much better, even one that set a record with 73 wins.

 

What I meant was that it wasn't a deal that gutted their present team (which would have screwed them if Durant stayed) nor was it a deal that hurt their future (which would have screwed them if Durant left). They got a good young-prime player in Oladipo, who would have fit well with the Durant team but also works fine on a rebuilding team and Sabonis, a player who does push some value into the future but not at huge cost to their present, and a shooter in his prime in Illyasova.

It was a very nice job of re-tooling in a Durant-uncertain environment, IMO.

 

So - just like Olshey did in getting Gerald Henderson and Noah Vonleh for Nic Batum, right?

 

Er, yes, if I thought Henderson and Vonleh were of equivalent value to Batum, which I don't. I do think Oladipo, Sabonis and Illyasova were at least of equivalent value to Ibaka.