2028-2029 OKC Pre-season Press Conference
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:11 pm
Welcome everyone back to another year of Thunder basketball! I am going to keep this pretty short since I feel nothing monumental has happened for us from last year to this year.
Firstly, in retrospect, I am happy with the way my players performed last year. We took the challenge of being in a new environment, and after some adjustments, finished the year strong. I think we have a great core of players here who I think will help this team in the next few years. It is funny thinking about it actually because the year prior, when we made the playoffs, people were saying how we might not have deserved it as much as a team from the other conference (we were a sub .500 team, where there were teams in the East who missed the playoffs with a winning record). Well, we kinda fell into the same situation last year but was on the other side of it, where we had a winning record but was not in the playoffs and the Omega conference had a sub .500 team in the playoffs. Oh well...
Anyways, we brought back all of our players that we placed a premium on, even if we overpaid ALL of them. I am still learning the art of negotiating contracts. However, I think Winkler is still the best player on this team, Vincente is lights out from 3 and Clifton is such a great prospect. We drafted Basil Garden who I think will be a decent scorer off the bench and we brought in a bunch of players we think can be quality depth pieces. I think we are finally in a position to win and our salary this year is pointed that way as well for the first time. I will be starting Pete, Clifton, Vincente, Nathaniel and Eckbert.
Now let me know what questions y'all have!
Firstly, in retrospect, I am happy with the way my players performed last year. We took the challenge of being in a new environment, and after some adjustments, finished the year strong. I think we have a great core of players here who I think will help this team in the next few years. It is funny thinking about it actually because the year prior, when we made the playoffs, people were saying how we might not have deserved it as much as a team from the other conference (we were a sub .500 team, where there were teams in the East who missed the playoffs with a winning record). Well, we kinda fell into the same situation last year but was on the other side of it, where we had a winning record but was not in the playoffs and the Omega conference had a sub .500 team in the playoffs. Oh well...
Anyways, we brought back all of our players that we placed a premium on, even if we overpaid ALL of them. I am still learning the art of negotiating contracts. However, I think Winkler is still the best player on this team, Vincente is lights out from 3 and Clifton is such a great prospect. We drafted Basil Garden who I think will be a decent scorer off the bench and we brought in a bunch of players we think can be quality depth pieces. I think we are finally in a position to win and our salary this year is pointed that way as well for the first time. I will be starting Pete, Clifton, Vincente, Nathaniel and Eckbert.
Now let me know what questions y'all have!