San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder - a team comparison

[Fireball]

This Mitchell guy comes out of the blue and is currently 6th man of the year (which is what Keldon stated he wants to be this season ) ... OKC is is this machine of plug and play which is reminiscent of the Spurs from the Big Three era.
I think we are two years behind them. Agree with RC_Drunkford that their physicality would be too much for the Spurs in a playoff matchup.

 

[brazil]

I think OKC is going to repeat this year pretty easily tbh. I have them beating the Knicks in 5 in the Finals. Spurs are much improved obviously, but I don't think we can compete with a healthy OKC team in a 7-game series. We're not there yet. They're just too deep and too good defensively (they're also allowed to foul way more than any other team in the league) and SGA is going to shoot 13+ FT's a game when push comes to shove. They also have shooters all over the floor and on the bench so their spacing is always ridiculous, which allows SGA, J-Dub and even Chet to do their thing. They're currently 4-0 (about to be 5-0 tonight after they beat the shitty Kings) and they're missing 2 of their best players in J-Dub and Caruso. They're simply the best and deepest team in the NBA right now.

I agree OKC is clear favorite eventhough last time a team was able to repeat was GSW in 2018, it seems it is becoming increasingly hard to achieve.. injuries, salary cap, fatigue.. It's even difficult to see a team repeating in the finals even in the east.