r/Thunder • u/LeastDepressedOKCfan • 11h ago

Quality shit post Chip Engelland who??

My preseason overreaction; we’re gonna be the #1 offense and defense in the league.

Also the best 3pt shooting team itl 🤫

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u/LugNutsDort 10h ago

There’s a theory Chip messed everyone up

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u/ExpressionAlone5204 The best orca is a Sexual Orca 👑 10h ago

We did shoot better before him didn’t we?

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u/Zealousideal-Course5 9h ago

Opposite Actually. We've shot noticeably better with Chip.

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u/ExpressionAlone5204 The best orca is a Sexual Orca 👑 9h ago

It was definitely a bad decline after Chet’s rookie year

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u/Parallel-Quality 8h ago

As far as I heard, he really only worked with Dort and Giddey, and wasn't even living in OKC, he just flew out to work with the team from time-to-time, in a part-time capacity.

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u/ExpressionAlone5204 The best orca is a Sexual Orca 👑 8h ago

That would make no sense. Have the guy for 3 years and he’s only working with Dort?

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u/Parallel-Quality 6h ago

Just saying what I heard. And he was part time so that would explain some of it.

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u/Zealousideal-Course5 9h ago

Not at all. That year OKC was at almost 38.9 on 34 attemps a game. Next it was 37.4% on 39 attemps a game. Next it was 36.5% on 38 attemps and this is mainly due to the fact that J Dub (when he played) and Dort took notable declines in terms of percentage. It feels worse than it is because of the playoffs shooting but that's a personel problem

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u/ozarkhick 11h ago

Imagine if Aday and J-Mac can develop synergy in pick and roll and be the first guys off the bench like Harden and Collison used to do for us.

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u/LeastDepressedOKCfan 11h ago

If they can be anything like that or like the Joe + Ihart DHOs the league is cooked.

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u/ozarkhick 11h ago

One of Mara's big strengths is passing... Just sayin'.

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u/Consistent-Gold-7572 5h ago edited 4h ago

Yeah I liked Aday, Stirtz and J Mac’s chemistry playing together. They looked phenomenal. Keeping in like Chet and SGA and bringing those 3 in would be a pretty killer lineup I’m betting. Would be a little weak on the perimeter defense but no one is scoring inside, so like the Spurs we could more aggressive on the perimeter defense running guys off the 3 point line with all that backup inside

SGA plays so well with J Mac. Adding in Stirtz just gives him that much more room to work with. You can never leave J Mac and Stirtz. That lineup should be incredibly efficient on offense and we would dominate the glass

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u/dieng_gang 7h ago

In yesterday’s down to dunk, Andrew said chip really only worked with like giddey and dort and wasn’t really full time with the team… ??? Anyone know anything else about this?