The Lakers and Clippers and Rockets are responsible for the current rise of the Thunder!

The Lakers and Clippers and Rockets are responsible for the rise of the Thunder! How many factors are needed for a team with strength, space and bargaining chips? Brothers, please like, bookmark and follow us. Let’s start quickly and go to Eye City to find out.

The Western Conference Finals lead 3:1, which means that the Thunder has entered the finals with one foot. I have said before that the Thunder has the best salary space, the most trading chips, and the most stable attendance rate. So why can the Thunder do this while other teams overdraw their assets early? I summarize the three principles of the Thunder, namely: make a quick decision, never sell at a low price, and control the players.

After being defeated by Lillard's extremely long three-pointer in the playoffs in 2019, the Thunder completely decided to rebuild. Since then, from the selection of Durant in 2007, to the release of Harden in 2012, and then Westbrook led the team alone after Durant left in 2016, the three Thunder period of the third young master was completely over. We don’t have to verify whether it was Westbrook or George who contacted Leonard first. In short, at that stage Presti was ready to rebuild early.

Don't worry about Paul George's development in the future. The price of selling Alexander plus 5 first rounds was not outrageous, because getting George was a necessary condition to grab Leonard from the Lakers Raptors. This chip was equivalent to the exchange for the "No. 1 player in the league" that was generally recognized at the time, and George, the striker in the first lineup, and George, the third in the MVP list. If the Clippers did not lose at the time, then the Thunder would definitely make a fortune! Then the deal between Westbrook and Paul also made the Thunder swap in the first round. No matter how much you like Paul in the next two years, you have to admit the 19th time. Compared with Paul and Westbrook's condition at that time, this is already a favor price for the Rockets by the Thunder. In this regard, Thunder's quick decision was fully demonstrated. Since it was necessary to rebuild, it would be completely rebuilt, and the Guijiao duo would not leave any of them.

and the second point is never sold at a low price, which is more obvious. With Paul's annual salary of 40 million yuan at that time, he had to pay the draft pick when he sent him away. This also led to several days after the transaction, Paul did not receive a call from the Thunder management. He asked Paul to contact Presti to learn that the Thunder did not want to sell Paul at a low price. He hoped that Paul would take the young man to a year and try his best to send him to the team he wanted to go to. This incident shows the Thunder's determination in the direction, but objectively affects the Thunder's reconstruction process. Paul actually brought the Thunder into the playoffs after returning to the spring. But even so, the Thunder did not intend to let Paul go on the trade deadline, but gritted their teeth and waited until the offseason.

When I saw that the Sun had a need to recruit Paul, it was not until the first round of the quotation in 22 years. I gave up the opportunity to make a bad move for a year and gained more assets. It is worth mentioning that in 222, Paul and Booker led the Suns to the best 65-win league record in team history, making this draft pick naturally become the last 30 pick in the first round, which seems worthless? It doesn't matter. At that time, the Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth had just taken the lead and rushed to use the Nuggets' first round in 27 years to get the 30th pick, and chose Watson, who could not make the playoff rotation during Jokic's peak period in two years, allowing the Thunder's asset value to continue.

, and the Thunder, who missed 20 years of bad opportunities, learned a lesson and did a very determined job in asset restructuring in 21 years. They took advantage of the Lakers' championship to want the defenders to share the pressure of James' ball holding the ball, and exchanged the sixth player Schroder in the playoffs for Tielinga's No. 28 pick.

Then he used the No. 28 draw to send back the Timberwolves to return to the No. 17 draw; then he used Timberlin to exchange for Horford, who failed to form the double towers in the 76ers, and exchanged for the first round of Philadelphia in 25 years.

They were afraid that Horford would play well and would not play badly, so they forced a respite on him on the grounds of "old". They also helped the Celtics win the championship at the age of 37. Do you think he was old when he was 34?

Then the Thunder sent the meritorious veteran Aquaman Adams to the Pelicans to exchange for the first round of the Nuggets in 23 years in a multi-party transaction; and sent James Johnson away, ate Ariza from the Pistons, earning back a second round of 23 years. In the middle of the season, the Thunder's consciousness was simply crazy, and sold Diallo to exchange for the second round of the Pistons in 27 years. For veterans like Ariza who are obviously not easy to sell, other teams usually give me a favor, and after buying out, they will let others go to the place they want to go, but the Thunder doesn't want to exchange things for favors? Who do I know you? Later, he helped the Jazz eat Favors and got multiple first rounds. In short, the 21-year Thunder focuses on plucking a feather by a geese, which is definitely not charitable.

In addition to making quick decisions and never selling at a low price, the Thunder's reconstruction has a more important part of controlling the players. The most important thing here is to convince the young Alexander to perform painless people when he made significant progress in 21 years... Ah, no, it is painless reimbursement! Alexander's bpm in 21 years is 2.5 times that of 20 years, and even the best year for his three-point shooting with relatively weak points. However, Presti forced Alexander to play only 35 games, killing the Clippers in the same season in Doncic's playoffs, Trae Young advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, and Ayton wasted the finals, and he was willing to let Alexander waste a season of honor.

, and Alexander accepted it happily, and when he found that his record had not improved in the 22 season, he only played 56 games and stopped when he was better. In the past two years of tolerance and dormancy have allowed the team to gain high-level talents such as Gidey and Chet. Even though Gidey's growth did not meet expectations and Chet was injured and reimbursed when playing jungle ball with James, the God of Luck still rewarded the Thunder with Jaylen Williams with the 12th pick in George's early trade..

And the scene of Caruso, who was exchanged for Gidedy, in this year's playoffs, injured Aaron Gordon and sealed Edwards, makes me feel how worthwhile Alexander's forbearance in 21 years. You should know that in 23, the Mavericks Harrison wanted to give up the playoffs to retain the draft pick, and Doncic almost broke up with him, which laid the groundwork for the shocking deal later; in 22, the Nuggets Murray and Porter Jr. were reimbursed at the same time, and the hopeless season should have been badly held to protect the draft pick, but Jokic won a MVP to lead the team to the playoffs; in 22, when the team was determined to enter the reconstruction cycle, James chose to leave without delay. I cannot evaluate who is more noble and wiser than Alexander. I can only say that in terms of the result, Alexander, who is like King Goujian of Yue, chose to take the overall situation into consideration when others were pursuing victory. The result was that Thunder's assets and talent envied the entire American professional basketball team! This is exactly the same as the final destruction of Wu by Yue State, at least you don’t have to endure the humiliation of eating Fuchai’s feces.

So brothers, do you think Thunder’s tolerance over the years will eventually help them win the championship and create a domineering career? ! Please leave your opinion in the comment section!