Scholarship table
Not really. The context is with or without Paul George the outcome of next season, the only season they will have Paul George for, is more or less exactly the same. Compete in, and possibly win, a first round series and then get completely overmatched in the second round. So why in the world would you trade away assets when you're losing the asset you got in return for them in a year?The only teams that should've considered trading for George were the Rockets, Spurs, Cavs, and Celtics if they landed Hayward. If you aren't going to win a title, or at least make a serious run for one, with Paul George next year, it makes no sense at all to trade him. And the Thunder are nowhere near on par with the Warriors, or even the Rockets or Spurs.And Oladipo's $21M is going to be just fine 3 years from now. You aren't paying attention to what's happening with player contracts if you think $21M for a good scoring guard is something that is going to hold a franchise back. The guy is 25 and averages 16 and 4 for his career. He had a 51% eFG% last year (for comparison, Russell Westbrook had an eFG% of 47% last year).
Wades, there aren't people in Oladipo's camp arguing for him as hard as you are.
That just means that after the Thunder lose in the second round and Paul George is on his way to LA next year I can be the only person that can say, "I told you so," after Oladipo averages 20, 5, and 4 next year while shooting a better percentage than Russel Westbrook and Sabonas shows some big promise as a 21 year old stretch 4.
OK. Oladipo will of course average those career highs because he is playing on a dumpster fire of a team, where he will be the best player, which is actually quite sad. Of course OKC will be better next year, but even if Paul George leaves after a year, where are the two franchises because of this trade? OKC is likely out of the playoffs, and at absolute best Indy is sniffing a 6-8 seed, which is almost as bad, and some would argue worse. OKC is taking a risk. OKC judged that if they could send an unproven rookie and a role player for a top 15 (top 10?) NBA talent, on the chance to resign him, is better than what they sent away. Not too mention, Russy, your 2nd favorite player after LBJ is a free agent soon, so Presti is gambling that by bringing 2 All NBA talents together, even for season could blossom into something larger. Obvi, only time will tell.
He averaged 18, 4, and 4 as a second year player. It's not like he was an 8 and 4 guy last year either. He averaged 16 and 4 last year. I would hope Oladipo's career high numbers are still to come for him. 25 year old, 4th year basketball players sometimes improve their numbers. Especially when they get more touches.If Presti thinks he can convince Paul George to skip out on heading home to SoCal in order to stay with his shoot first, second, and third PG in Oklahoma City, OK despite his openly stating his intentions to head back to sunny SoCal a number of times then more power to the guy. He has some supreme confidence in himself and the beautiful city of OKC I guess.
You are much smarter than this, you know much more about the NBA than most on this board (myself included). Don't take my word for it, literally take nearly all experts @ ESPN, the Ringer, the consensus @ NBAreddit, Deadspin, and just about everywhere else that the risk was worth it. This is how risk, odds and probability work. Now, if in 14 months PG signs with the Lake show, does it make you right, and me /and the experts wrong? In your head yes, but people are judging this on what could be.Methinks you are just a contrarian by nature, or just have axes to grind against certain players. Looking forward to watching some OKC games next year fo show.
Lol. So if it happens exactly as I say it is going to happen I'm only right in my head. Got it. Now that makes some sense.
OK, I'm now convinced you have zero knowledge of risk assessment. We can all move on.
Paul George and the Golden State Warriors make this one pretty simple. It's really not that hard. So I'm glad we can all move on.
In your opinion, should any front offices outside of Golden State, Cleveland, Houston, San Antonio or Boston be trying to win the 2018 NBA championship?
Yes, the Minnesota Timberwolves
Lol.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Just a psa. None of those people are experts. If they were they would be in a team's front office.
Per Woj: Derrick Rose meeting with Bucks officials today.NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
The thought of getting out from under some bad contracts, only to sign Derrick Rose is depressing.