The Oklahoma City Thunder answered all possible questions during the regular season. It’s the postseason they are defined.
Mark Daenoo’s Oklahoma City Thunder won the Detroit Pistons 119-103 for the 64th victory of the season.
Top seeds are safe and the team is about to emerge as the biggest challenger. The Houston Rockets are the second species, followed by the La Lakers and Denver Nuggets.
Kendrick Perkins suggests that La Clippers could be the Thunder’s biggest threat, but in the end he’s passionate about OKC’s chances of winning the championship.
The constant knock on the Oklahoma City Thunder is their lack of experience. This cost the team last season when they lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the conference semi-finals.
But what if that was their experience? Former star Kendrick Perkins believes last season’s defeat will work in their favour, citing the team’s lack of experience when the Thunder team reached the final in 2012.
He told his first take:
“Serge Ibaka, 20, Russell Westbrook 21, James Harden 20, we had no experience.”
The well-known Perkins, not to mention the young Kevin Durant. Perhaps a surveillance or intentional person taking into account public conflicts between pairs.
Perkins thinks the addition of the offseason last June would be helpful. Thunder is trading Josh Guiddy for Alex Caruso.
He explained:
“They went through something they needed to go through last year. This team is locked up.”
Caruso won the NBA title with the LA Lakers in 2020. His experience can be valuable as the playoffs begin.
Caruso’s experience could benefit OKC teams as well as the court, but he is also a very useful player when he’s outside.
Former teammate Coby White recently admitted that he was disappointed when the Chicago Bulls forced him to leave, showing the impact he had on him while he was in the Wind City.
Meanwhile, Caruso is now happy in OKC and is excited to work with Shy Gilgas Alexander to play the team’s role with the best basketball record.
Even if Josh Giddy’s recent form claims that Patrick Beverly won the trade, OKC’s success means they have a strong claim too.
Caruso has played 50 games this season, and although he only started twice, he averages 19.7 minutes per game and is ready for every call.
He has had many successes in the career of a player who joined the league as an undrafted rookie with the Lakers in 2017, and while 2020 may have been his peak, he won the title in OKC in 2025.