Can't deny the greatness of the Thunders' scouting department. Too bad the pieces are just too good fit in with each other. They surely have the potential and the ability to be where Warriors was this past half a decade
I’d recommend a timeline of the Spurs building their championship team up starting with drafting Tim Duncan to go with David Robinson all the way to the 2014 finals and even the fall of the team can be included like all the players retiring,Kawhis injury,etc. I love vids like these so I wanted to give a suggestion
Sad to say bruh OKC is cursed. 2009- Underdog OKC was bout to force game 7 against the defending champ Lakers and Gasol makes a putback and ends them 2013- Finished 60 games but Westbrook injured in the first round 2014- Ibaka hurt in the first two game of San Antonio, you never know, they would never be down 2-0 in the first place 2015- Almost everyone was hurt that year, they did tie the pelicans for the 8th seed but they checked the regular season matchups and AD's game winner gave them the advantage 2016- Took a 3-1 lead and Game 6 Klay happened 2018- Roberson injured, Roberson was their best defender and we would have Roberson instead of Corey Brewer on Mitchell. Also, the missed call, im not making excuses, just look at Quin Synder's face. He knew it was a foul. 2019- OKC at one point was looking to reach the WCF, and PG looked like the MVP, however, PG got injured and there was one point he couldn't even lift his shoulder, Russ was hurt too. Dame destroys
The OKC Thunder's biggest mistake was trying to treat the Thunder as if they were the Spurs, Sam Presti is an incredible GM and is probably the best drafter the league has ever seen, but he also used to work for the Spurs. He knew that in order to win a championship with a small market team, he had to build a culture that allowed to nonsense and valued the team above all else, the problem was that he also needed player who were willing to make huge sacrifices. He treated James Harden exactly like Manu Ginobili, tried to keep him as a bench player and tried to get him to take a pay cut (just like Manu) but that wasn't gonna happen. He tried to treat KD like Tim Duncan, Kendrick Perkins recently said that when KD won MVP, Nike wanted to make a huge mural of him to celebrate it, but the Thunder wouldn't let him do it since they wanted to promote a culture of teamwork rather than a single individual. A big reason why KD changed after going to Golden State was because he could act like himself since OKC wouldn't let him, even if KD didn't join the Warriors, he wouldn't have resigned with OKC. Only person who was loyal and would commit to a small market was Westbrook, but he couldn't win a championship so OKC decided to trade him and start over.
Lol they wouldn't have draft adams without the harden trade and they couldn't afford both ibaka and harden so they had to trade one of them and to our surprise they kept ibaka and traded harden.
@Motor Swish Gaming the picks will come in handy for if we either keep them and hopefully pick the right guys that fits in our system and match our needs or that maybe future All-Stars, MVPs, and maybe FMVPs as well or if we also use some or all of our picks and make another blockbuster trade and the same thing for if we sadly have to trade some of our current players, the possibilities are endless for the Oklahoma City Thunder this decade to where I hope that we become a dynasty and win some championships as well!!! #ThunderUp
Imagine a 2010’s thunder team PG: CP3 SG: Russell Westbrook SF: Paul George PF: Kevin Durant C: Steven Adams 6M: James Harden 7M: Carmelo Anthony 8M: Serge Ibaka
2:16 The best team by record in that Western Conference was Kobe's Lakers, and they only had 7 wins more than the Thunder. Just comes to show how talented and stacked the West was back then.
OKC all 2010s team: Russell Westbrook James Harden Kevin Durant Paul George Steven Adams Reserves: Chris Paul Victor Oladipo Carmelo Anthony Serge Ibaka Reggie Jackson Damantas Sabonis SGA Danillo Galanari
@@jakehorowitz1703 they got Shai Chris Paul will eventually be out of the book in this decade and the richest draft assets Sam presti can be trusted drafting high Looks like they can totally bounce back given five years or less Than another 5 years window to prove you wrong
People disrespect Westbrook for "stat padding" those triple doubles, but how do you know that Oscar Robinson didn't stat pad? Nobody saw him play except for the old old heads. Come on now
It would be nice if anyone that's currently working and/or playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder to see this so that way they can see what happened to us over the last decade and use it to make sure that we don't make the same mistake again during this decade so that way the Oklahoma City Thunder can become a dynasty and finally get/win some NBA championships!!! #ThunderUp
Westbrook was a rookie Kevin Durant was 1 year in harden was a six man and pg13 first year was good but the jazz were coming off that year strong then the second year pg13 was injured kinda like the melo situation but he did wanna stay and you know the dame three which was a step back/side step mid air three fade-away from 40 ft so that should’ve never went in and plus we were up 115-113 at the end but then they got a layup then Westbrook got a controversial non foul then dame did what I already said so know let’s go to 2017 where Westbrook was solo and surprisingly took a game off a amazing year for the rockets and now 2018 which I’ve already discussed but didn’t mention Melos part of this situation, so here we go Melo didn’t want to be a starter which lead to so many negative things and hate to him, if he was a starter we could’ve got the comeback but the jazz came off a amazing year just coming at the 5th or 4th seed i don’t remember and 2020 (currently) there rebuilding is going great :) + Oh yeah and when they had there so called “3 mvp’s” Steven Adams wasn’t on the team and plus Kd was like 3 years in when they went to the finals same with Westbrook but Westbrook was like 20 and kd was 21 + Here is all the bad things the thunder has to deal with 2008 - Thunder were made 2010 - Thunder lose (R1) vs Lakers 2012 - Thunder lose the finals + Harden traded away 2013 - Thunder lose (WCF) vs spurs 2015 - Thunder lose (WCF) vs warriors + 3-1 lead 2016 - KD leaves the team + Ibaka traded away 2017 - Thunder lose (R1) vs Rockets + Oladipo traded away 2018 - Thunder lose (R1) vs jazz 2019 - Thunder lose (R1) vs blazers + Westbrook traded away 2020 - Thunder dealing with no superstars (CP3 never was one)
Imagine 50 games being good enough for the 8th seed. The west back then was different man
in the east you qualify with negative record😂😂♑
@@felipe_brunetti ikr
MJ got to the playoffs with 30 wins
East teams were clinching the 1 seed with a 50ish win game season
@Simon Kebede yeah there was like 5-7 good teams in the NBA back then. And most of them were in the west lol
That’s crazy getting a 50-32 record is an 8th seed for the west lol 😂 good times
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Can't deny the greatness of the Thunders' scouting department. Too bad the pieces are just too good fit in with each other. They surely have the potential and the ability to be where Warriors was this past half a decade
Sam presti
Drafting A
Trade B -
Free agency D
Salary management F
@@tpsam trade must be c- that harden trade is disgusting
@@wilt2456 no one would know at the time
Man Sam presty knows how to draft
and how to trade
@@Coco-ck1sz no he doesn't
he doesn't know to trade tho
@@isayahstahl2887 that clippers and rockets deal is looking pretty good
Bro been a thubder fan forever and I love the rockets boe that they have russ. This is just hits hard we could've been a dynasty
Jay HuZe your grammar is amazing
Thieves suck
I’d recommend a timeline of the Spurs building their championship team up starting with drafting Tim Duncan to go with David Robinson all the way to the 2014 finals and even the fall of the team can be included like all the players retiring,Kawhis injury,etc. I love vids like these so I wanted to give a suggestion
Damn, that graphic is so disrespectful to Chris Paul. I love it.
The team is doing better with Chris Paul
And Chris Paul should trust his new teamates in endgame
@@jojojotoro6185 ikr
Jojo Jotoro umm no there not
Sad to say bruh OKC is cursed.
2009- Underdog OKC was bout to force game 7 against the defending champ Lakers and Gasol makes a putback and ends them
2013- Finished 60 games but Westbrook injured in the first round
2014- Ibaka hurt in the first two game of San Antonio, you never know, they would never be down 2-0 in the first place
2015- Almost everyone was hurt that year, they did tie the pelicans for the 8th seed but they checked the regular season matchups and AD's game winner gave them the advantage
2016- Took a 3-1 lead and Game 6 Klay happened
2018- Roberson injured, Roberson was their best defender and we would have Roberson instead of Corey Brewer on Mitchell. Also, the missed call, im not making excuses, just look at Quin Synder's face. He knew it was a foul.
2019- OKC at one point was looking to reach the WCF, and PG looked like the MVP, however, PG got injured and there was one point he couldn't even lift his shoulder, Russ was hurt too. Dame destroys
Is that “Ain’t No Sunshine?”
What mjx
Bro the Westbrook, Oladipo, Sabonis and Adams starting four with a little more time to develop would have been very scary the last few years
The OKC Thunder's biggest mistake was trying to treat the Thunder as if they were the Spurs, Sam Presti is an incredible GM and is probably the best drafter the league has ever seen, but he also used to work for the Spurs. He knew that in order to win a championship with a small market team, he had to build a culture that allowed to nonsense and valued the team above all else, the problem was that he also needed player who were willing to make huge sacrifices. He treated James Harden exactly like Manu Ginobili, tried to keep him as a bench player and tried to get him to take a pay cut (just like Manu) but that wasn't gonna happen. He tried to treat KD like Tim Duncan, Kendrick Perkins recently said that when KD won MVP, Nike wanted to make a huge mural of him to celebrate it, but the Thunder wouldn't let him do it since they wanted to promote a culture of teamwork rather than a single individual. A big reason why KD changed after going to Golden State was because he could act like himself since OKC wouldn't let him, even if KD didn't join the Warriors, he wouldn't have resigned with OKC. Only person who was loyal and would commit to a small market was Westbrook, but he couldn't win a championship so OKC decided to trade him and start over.
Imagine Russ, Harden, KD, Ibaka, Adams, with Roberson off the bench. Thats a superteam.
Even in 2k that wouldn't happen due to salary restrictions lol
James Macker yeah youre right but maybe back in the day when they werent making so much
Lol they wouldn't have draft adams without the harden trade and they couldn't afford both ibaka and harden so they had to trade one of them and to our surprise they kept ibaka and traded harden.
Funny tho, The Thunder always had a great/contending team the whole decade.
1st and as a Thunder fan, this hurts to watch.
The collapse is a bummer, they probably should have won a title, but with SGA and their stash of picks, they’re set up as well as anyone
@Motor Swish Gaming the picks will come in handy for if we either keep them and hopefully pick the right guys that fits in our system and match our needs or that maybe future All-Stars, MVPs, and maybe FMVPs as well or if we also use some or all of our picks and make another blockbuster trade and the same thing for if we sadly have to trade some of our current players, the possibilities are endless for the Oklahoma City Thunder this decade to where I hope that we become a dynasty and win some championships as well!!! #ThunderUp
Imagine a 2010’s thunder team
PG: CP3
SG: Russell Westbrook
SF: Paul George
PF: Kevin Durant
C: Steven Adams
6M: James Harden
7M: Carmelo Anthony
8M: Serge Ibaka
Ey man, i'm a bit fan, can you do a video of the Spurs rebuild
I agree I wanted the spurs to
Same
Agreed
I like that idea
Ye
Plss Do More Im A Fan Off This Kind Off Content
This is my first time seeing young steven Adams and wow wtf
Gaming with Azian he is 26 now still very young
@@stylizeddesignstudio8401 he looks like a 40 year old man, but he still so young
i had the same thought
bro the thunder are my TEAM imma cry lowkey
Okc thunder, the elite of the draft
Although the Thunder failed to win a championship in the past years, you have to give them props for developing future Hall of famers
2:16 The best team by record in that Western Conference was Kobe's Lakers, and they only had 7 wins more than the Thunder. Just comes to show how talented and stacked the West was back then.
7:30 "Nets are close to acquring F Kevin Garnett, F Paul Pierce, and G Jason Terry from Celtics" Yikes.
Yeah do one on the Spurs and how they got there 5 championships in 16 years
They have so many first round picks now
OKC all 2010s team:
Russell Westbrook
James Harden
Kevin Durant
Paul George
Steven Adams
Reserves:
Chris Paul
Victor Oladipo
Carmelo Anthony
Serge Ibaka
Reggie Jackson
Damantas Sabonis
SGA
Danillo Galanari
Carmelo isn't in
He did nothing for OKC
Dennis schoeroder
Not the sad video I wanted to watch tonight.
*sighs* thankfully we still have a solid squad.
funny that at one point in time 50 wins is good enough for 8 but a few short years later 47 is good enough for the second seed lmao
Thunder is getting one this decade. I can feel it.
GeckosAndDrums there is absolutely no chance
@@jakehorowitz1703 There is absolutely a chance.
@@jakehorowitz1703 they got Shai Chris Paul will eventually be out of the book in this decade and the richest draft assets
Sam presti can be trusted drafting high
Looks like they can totally bounce back given five years or less
Than another 5 years window to prove you wrong
Pretty much every team have a chance this decade to win a championship
@@bc7295 I hope that the Oklahoma City Thunder becomes a dynasty to where they can finally get/win some NBA championships!!! #ThunderUp
Ey man,I'm a huge fan of your videos can you make a video of the Phoenix suns failure of their rebuild
Keep talking about thunder basketball!! I love it!
Broke my heart watching this man
Ey man,im a fan for your videos may I request that you can make a timeline of the phoenix suns failure of their rebuild
not much of a failure now lol
Their 2016-2017 lineup would be a championship contender in todays nba
Cuz the league is balanced now
The Sonics put a curse on them.
Damn. 50-32 and still 8th Seed?? That IS a Wild, Wild, West!
Been waiting for this
It's sad for a Thunder fan but great video⚡
Good job bro.
Do a New Orleans pelicans one
Bro keep this up this is 🔥 🔥
the real problem is they tend to give up a strong lineup the moment it fails instead of letting it grow.
You should analyze some of the old game of zones episodes
He will if he gets a 1000 followers on Instagram
Is it me, or at 2:34, it says they went 50-32, and that was good for the eighth seed.
yes and they tied
Now I hate Sam Presti because he traded my favorite players on the thunder 😢
Do Jazz timeline of Hayward to Mitchell and Gobert
People disrespect Westbrook for "stat padding" those triple doubles, but how do you know that Oscar Robinson didn't stat pad? Nobody saw him play except for the old old heads. Come on now
They could’ve had KD, Westbrook and Harden 🤦♂️
Do the process next
NAK how did you feel about the ending of Game Of Zones?
Damian Lillard ended an era
Yeah his own😭
Bro this GM is insane
You can’t deny we are good this year though
Hey NAK how about a Lakers rebuild video, from 2009 to 2020?
2017 and 18 warriors rings could’ve been the thunders if KD stayed, plus would’ve made for great and exciting seasons and not predictable endings
They would've never won the chip if westbrick was still on the team they had to trade westbrick for a better pg
Never forget the big 4🥺🖖
Basically everything screwed up when James harden got traded
Thunder deserved a title with players like Durant, Westbrook and Durant.
Agreed
Seattle drafted KD and Westbrook
@@YankeesLife Seattle was renamed as Oklahoma
Warriors next please
Verry good content Next plss Celtics Rebuild 2013 to 2021 hehe
2013 really was the Thunder's year
Also 2014 but Serge Ibaka was injured for 2 games vs San Antonio Spurs
@@NatureBoy818channel true
you should do a timeline of the Celtics from after the bird big 3 till 2008
You should do Huston Rockets
Sonics fan here and I'm enjoying every second of this video 😁
Too bad you're still left without a team lmao
@@nicholasbutler4129
Number of Championships
Sonics - 1
Thunder - 0
Enjoy
sucks that ur city was too cheap to renovate a new stadium.
@@highwizard6764 Ill enjoy having a team, thanks.
With or without a team, must really suck for you guys to continuously endure the curse. Feel sorry for you OKC fans.
do minnesota next
Can u do a video on the Miami heat from after the breakup of the big 3?
Why do some thunder players like harden, olidipo and Sabonis become so good after they left OKC?
Asher Sedwick because Sabonis was a rookie on Okc
+Boring Person Number 1 You’re a moron.
they have a dangerous amount of 1st round picks. theyre not done yet. . .
12:08😂 he said he got like he didn’t care
The biggest What If in NBA history.
and now they have like a 20+ picks
im sorry but 12:34 the commentator doesnt even sound like he wants to be there wtf how is he so calm
I think it's because he's a nuggets commentator
It would be nice if anyone that's currently working and/or playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder to see this so that way they can see what happened to us over the last decade and use it to make sure that we don't make the same mistake again during this decade so that way the Oklahoma City Thunder can become a dynasty and finally get/win some NBA championships!!! #ThunderUp
Steven adans the real thunder
now thunder have the youngest team and 1 billion picks
*W*
One name. Westbrook
PHILADELPHIA PLZZZZZZ
Can we get a part 2 of the bulls soon please
imagine if they picked Giannis in 2013
Loooool
When will the nets video be
Back when fifty wins would get you the sixth seed in the West and the First seed in the East
The young thunder honestly jus got unlucky they should’ve kept that team together the only year I can say they actually choked was in 2016
Can you do Houston rockets small ball roster
The Curse of the Sonics!
they're literally dog water now without cp3 and adams
Morrow didnt start on those Thunder teams, it was Roberson
On the Paul George trade you put Magic instead of the pacers
15:03 WESTBROOK TO CLIPPERS
if KD wouldn’t have got injured in 14-15 and James harden wouldn’t have got traded bc of 4 million dollars then they probably wouldve got one by now
Rus and cp3 deserve rings
Yo NAK can u offer some personal experience with this BOING vert program?
Who else was watching this with a sonics jersey on
Westbrook was a rookie Kevin Durant was 1 year in harden was a six man and pg13 first year was good but the jazz were coming off that year strong then the second year pg13 was injured kinda like the melo situation but he did wanna stay and you know the dame three which was a step back/side step mid air three fade-away from 40 ft so that should’ve never went in and plus we were up 115-113 at the end but then they got a layup then Westbrook got a controversial non foul then dame did what I already said so know let’s go to 2017 where Westbrook was solo and surprisingly took a game off a amazing year for the rockets and now 2018 which I’ve already discussed but didn’t mention Melos part of this situation, so here we go Melo didn’t want to be a starter which lead to so many negative things and hate to him, if he was a starter we could’ve got the comeback but the jazz came off a amazing year just coming at the 5th or 4th seed i don’t remember and 2020 (currently) there rebuilding is going great :)
+ Oh yeah and when they had there so called “3 mvp’s” Steven Adams wasn’t on the team and plus Kd was like 3 years in when they went to the finals same with Westbrook but Westbrook was like 20 and kd was 21
+ Here is all the bad things the thunder has to deal with
2008 - Thunder were made
2010 - Thunder lose (R1) vs Lakers
2012 - Thunder lose the finals + Harden traded away
2013 - Thunder lose (WCF) vs spurs
2015 - Thunder lose (WCF) vs warriors + 3-1 lead
2016 - KD leaves the team + Ibaka traded away
2017 - Thunder lose (R1) vs Rockets + Oladipo traded away
2018 - Thunder lose (R1) vs jazz
2019 - Thunder lose (R1) vs blazers + Westbrook traded away
2020 - Thunder dealing with no superstars (CP3 never was one)
And retire these numbers thunder Westbrook (0), Collision (4), McMillan (10), Payton (20), Brown (32), Durant (35), Kemp (40)
Westbrick is older than KD boy
why does thabo sefolosha's hair look like it was photoshopped on lol
Whats the song remix
Raptors next?
To be fair the thunder already won a championship in 1979......They Even have the trophy to prove it.
Do a timeline of Dwight Howard Magic
okc is such a poetic failure of a franchise
Why are we in the playoffs than. Your probably a salty blazers fan
this team used to be so good