Are the Oklahoma City Thunder an Emerging NBA Dynasty?

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00:00I think that literally like they're so good and so talented and so deep and the cupboard is so full

00:07and they're so well coached and they are so oiled in terms of how they're run in the front office

00:16by Presti that I think they're they look you know barring you know catastrophic injury

00:23they look like I'm seriously to me to be in a position of all power and that they're going to

00:31win multiple championships they're not a they're not a one-and-done team in my view they are going

00:36to be there for a while this is like clearly it's what I'm looking at in in the reserve department

00:46like what they have in terms of first round picks over the next five years is insane and they're

00:53already incredibly good and incredibly young so this team as is is not going anywhere now I think

01:01there's a couple of guys that they may not want to keep around or that they might move in deals they're

01:08not just going to stay the same every single year maybe next year but I think after that it's going

01:14to change a little bit but they look to me to be the beginning of a dynasty they really do and I'm

01:19not guessing either because I didn't say that about the Celtics when they won it last year you

01:24didn't hear me sit here and say oh they're going to repeat or anything else I thought someone would

01:28beat them and I never thought they were that good I thought they were good and I thought it was just

01:33their year but I never thought it was beyond that look I think that they are set up perfectly as you

01:41mentioned to win at minimum maybe two more in the next four to five years right I mean you're talking

01:47like I and I think uh just as we've talked about over these uh past couple weeks I think the only

01:55thing that can derail that even a little bit is uh somebody you know thinking that they can be bigger

02:04somewhere else you know I think that this is nice the first year you win they've preached this team

02:10concept they're young guys everybody's into it everybody supports each other but all it takes is

02:17another year you know you win again and then somebody says man you know Jalen Williams man he could be

02:22he's in the he's in the shadow of SGA you know that's what they'll say after he's in the shadow or

02:27or maybe Chet gets even better next year you know and Chet Chet takes another man you know Chet's in

02:33the shadow of J-Dub and SGA you know all it takes is people to start doing that and then those guys

02:40eventually they got an ego too to be like maybe they're I got one chips here maybe I should go out

02:45on my own and show I can do it without these guys you know that that always happens and it'll happen

02:50here with somebody it'll happen with one of these guys I don't know which one but listen I'll say this

02:56to you I don't think that uh I think Chet is a really good player uh there's no denying he's a

03:02starter and a good player 7-1 block shots five block shots in a game seven the guy's already a

03:08really good player but I do not feel and I never have that he could carry a team by himself he's too

03:18I think too soft he's skinny I don't he's not a violent player that goes in and uh you know

03:26handles physicality well he gets injured uh when he tries to bang and get violent he's too skinny

03:34I he's never in my view gained the weight that most guys gain when they come into the league

03:40you see a guy come in as a toothpick and generally the only guys that I can think of that stayed a

03:46toothpick were him and Durant he they both stayed super skinny and and long most guys that come in

03:54they gain 30 pounds or 40 pounds over time you see these guys they come in they're a little kid

04:00they don't even shave you see them four years later a beard and they weigh 290 and uh they look like they

04:06ate the whole restaurant I I don't think he could carry a team I think he's better suited to be on a

04:12team with good players like he is now