of the best centers in the game last year, Oladipo is capable of more than he showed this year, Kanter is a very good offensive player.

They should be elite defensively, but there players have got to be so disengaged because they never see the ball, and they also are instructed to concede rebounds to Westbrook (they do all the work, boxing their man out, only for Westbrook to get the rebound).

Who would want to play like that?

They finished about where Vegas projected them, but that was because Westbrook did everything, while everybody else stagnated or regressed.

That's why they lost in 5. The 4th quarters of those games encapsulated everything that was wrong with the Thunder/Westbrook approach. Why should Westbrook take contested 3s while shooting 28%, when he can pass it to WIDE OPEN teammates that shoot better than him?

It's a false narrative that he doesn't have any talent around him. He doesn't know how to make his teammates better is the correct narrative.