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The OKC Thunder are currently averaging 50/41/87 AS A TEAM (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by ecvgxiv@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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After the draft, Chet said he thought he could be 50/40/90. Did he bring this dream to the rest of OKC?

The Oklahoma City Thunder are shooting a blistering 55.5% from 2, 41.0% from 3, and 86.7% from the line. This is the recipe for their hot start despite being consistently out-rebounded night after night.

Is Chip Engelland a god after all? Obviously this has to come back to down Earth at some point, right?… right?

Source: https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/OKC/2024.html

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[–] Todemax@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I cant say for sure that we are this good efficiency-wise but for sure we are a damn great free throw shooting team. Our worst starter at free throws is Giddey and I really don't even think hes that bad at them. Shai and Chet look like they could easily average 90+% for a long time, JDub looks like an upper 80's free throw guy at worst and I don't see Lu being any worse than upper 70%s.

Then on the bench you have these dawgs like Cason Wallace who as a rookie hardly misses any shots in general when he takes them much less misses any free throws (I think he might literally be 100% this season on them no joke). Isaiah Joe doesn't miss anything really either. Goddamn big man Jaylin Williams has a nice free throw stroke to go along with his pretty good three point shot. Aaron Wiggins is an efficient mofo. Micic seems solid enough at the line. Even Dieng when he plays makes free throws. Its quite crazy to see. I think we legitimately have a chance to be one of the greatest free throw shooting teams ever.

Oh yeah Kenrich is godawful at free throws though he seems to be the outlier.

[–] Fitaleidoscope@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At what point do we start to consider them dark horse championship contenders?

[–] butterbeancd@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Once they figure out how to rebound consistently.

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