There is a saying that goes: If you are still standing, you lose the ground.
or something like that.
For those of us with a game IQ, I dumb it a little down:
If you cannot stop TJ McConel, you should not really raise any banner.
If we learned anything from the recent NBA season, what happens in the first 82 games, really doesn’t matter. It is all about postson.
Oklahoma City Thunder NBA was prominent in meaningless sports as any team in NBA history. He was such a great favorite for winning the championship, the mattress Mac had to place a king’s shape just to win a couple of wings.
Yes, Thunder is strong and Mac’s daughter can wear clothes as Pokahontas for Sh-and-Tail. But the Champs lost more than winning their amazingly hard playoffs.
Oklahoma City was declared mythological before the first battle of Postsen. After twenty -three games, the dynasty is over.
For one thing, Thunder did not play like Cultics or Lakes or Cultics or Sphers or Warriors during his championship run. They were in the end, rather ordinary.
To cry out loud, if Tierace Heliberton did not fly his Achills in a tied game 7 in seven minutes, with a mumbling in the world of basketball, “Oh my goodness, it could actually happen,” ok … it can actually happen.
The Thunder could lose the fourth-Service President from the Lightweight Conference.
It would have been ranked as one of the greatest embarrassment in the history of bright lights. Something has gone that the coach must have been fired.
Three weeks later, we now see that the coach was not the problem. It was his owner.
Sam Posti worked 13 years in an attempt to re -organize the greatness of 2012, when the Thunder was shaken by Lebron James and Dwayne Wade in the NBA final.
He sold Kevin Durant, James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Paul George, Chris Paul and dozens of others, who turned into the biggest collection of draft pics in mankind history. Even Patton had five stars at their disposal.
The plan worked brilliantly, if slowly. By 2025, Presti not only formed a team that won more games in a regular season in a regular season than before in the Thunder history, but a single one who was injured by winning the first championship of the franchise after Seattle.
All, remarkably, building a war chest of pics that are much larger than ever.
Presty had a chance to own the draft, the owner of the fast lane for another championship, and with it, it is a matter of the slippery dynasty.
Instead, he fell in love. A great regular-season team fell in love with the finish line in the playoffs.
And he prepares her to break her heart.
With a developing superstar, a second star in making, a delicate big man, some good role player and so low that his bench was dropped from 291-205 by pacers in the finals, Presti is still standing in this summer.
They had two first round pics, five next year and, at least five on top of it in the next four years, and three first rounds are likely to explain. He could all threatened them to a real, live superstar co-star, or spread around three or four between several teams, hoping to use their own roadmaps, which was struggling with the choice of Benedic Mathurin, Andrew Nebhard, OB Toppin and Aaron Nemith.
Instead, he threw his best first -round pick on a man, which is unlikely to be nothing for an audience and was added to the G League Oklahoma City Blue Lineup with his second round selection.
Presty also settled his first round pick from Sacramento to 2027, which was only added to his arsenal, which could shake every other team in the league in the business market.
Thunder has spent most of his time to re -signing this offsen, assuring that he would once again be the deepest roster in the next season in NBA.
This is very good … when the volume matters. But in Postsen, because they should be quite aware till now, it is quality that wins.
When the Thunder does not repeat 11 months before now, some will blame Gillgus-Alexander for not being able to copy their remarkable 2025 season. Some will yet cite another Chet Holmagraine injury, at the end of the year instead of the beginning. Others would say that they told us that Jalan Williams was abolished, that Isaiah Heartenstein and Alex Caruso are considered to travel for a reason, that Lu Dort, Aaron Vignins and Isaiah, who estimates that they could not take the step when they got more opportunities.
Heck, some people suggest that they should be fired, which they probably will do at that time.
And they will all be wrong.
This will be the mistake of Sam Presty and his summer holiday.
