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Of all the young cores, OKC is the only one I’m confident is on a championship trajectory. They check off all the boxes - franchise player, young two-way supporting cast, good coach, ample draft capital.
Pacers and Hawks have defensive issues, Orlando has spacing issues, pelicans have health issues. Spurs have their superstar but they’ll need a few years to grow.
Cavs, kings, wolves, grizzlies - not confident that they have a championship ceiling with their current cores. Dallas is trending upwards but has work to do. These teams are all exciting but the unfortunate reality is that most of them will top out as decent playoff teams.
Okc have rebounding issues
While I’m biased as an OKC fan, I think it’s somewhat salvageable. Both of our centers are 21 and Chet especially has the length to develop a better rebounding game. The main issue is that OKC only plays one big at a time and the team struggles to box out which affects Chet but especially Jwill who’s not big and needs that help. The lack of a sturdy and athletic PF is really pressing but I think Presti will probably address that eventually
Finding a big heavy boi to grab boards is probably one of the more easily found missing pieces.
Zion to OKC??? (idk if he's even a good rebounder)
Yeahhh there are plenty of reasons to want Zion but his rebounding prowess ain’t at the top of the list😂. When he puts the effort in defensively, he’s shown promise to box out and rebound well. We just only see it in spurts (and it’s usually when he’s performing well already offensively).