Although the deal between the Thunder and the Bulls is just a swap between some role players, because it is a hot topic to win the championship, any news about the Thunder will become a hot topic and cause heated discussions in the market.

The Thunder's trade score is A, not because of how strong Ty Gibson and McDermott are, but because they used two players outside the rotation to find players who can enter the rotation. This is the positive trade.

The Thunder's No. 4 position is still quite weak. Their starting power forward Iliasova has a range, but his defense is average. He has been criticized for being a little soft and cannot fight hard battles. The team's substitute No. 4 position is a guest star Jeremy Grant, who was born in the third position. Grant can indeed play No. 4 position in the small ball lineup, but not a pure No. 4 position. When encountering a strong No. 4 position, it will be a disadvantage for physical confrontation.

Gibson's arrival provided the team with rebounds and hardness at No. 4. Although he is over 30 years old and is no longer at the peak, he is experienced and can still help the team and enhance the team's inside strength.

As for McDermott, he was the No. 11 rookie in the first round in 2014. He was also a genius who was selected into the All-American team for three consecutive years in college.

Last season, he averaged 9.4 points per game, 1.4 3-pointers per game, and his three-point shooting percentage is as high as 42.5%. With his arrival, he will inevitably form a competitive relationship with another white swinger, Abrines, and the two will compete for playing time during the rotation stage.

For the Thunder, hoarding more wing shooters is in line with the league's general trend. There are really no need to be too many shooters. The high value of 3D players nowadays means everything. Abranes and McDermott both have 3, but D is very ordinary wings. However, the Thunder has a defensive system. Although their defense is not strong, they will not be targeted to death, so they will not become a big colander on the court.

NBA experts are mostly optimistic about the Thunder's deal. Because even if Gibson and McDermott cannot integrate into the team, they don't care. After all, the two players used for trading are all outside the rotation, and are infinitely close to the water dispenser players.

Now the Thunder coach Billy Donovan and his coaching team are happy troubles, because there are too many people playing. The reason why superstars are so precious in NBA is that no matter how many people you can play in basketball, the number of people who play in the end is only 5. Especially in the playoffs, superstars will play for 40 minutes at any time, and the advantage of bench length will be further weakened.

"For zero for whole" is a good integrated thinking, but ordinary teams don't change with you. All-star players and superstars are treasures, who can easily change with you?

If possible, the Thunder certainly like to combine Robertson's defense and McDermott/Abrinez's shooting ability to a player, so that they can get a very good 3D player, but the question is, is this possible?

This tests the coach's arrangement, when will he be the defensive player and when will he become the shooter?

Xie Kai was very excited about the arrival of Gibson and McDermott. He didn't know much about McDermott, just knew he was a shooter, but he knew Gibson and knew that this was a very tough power forward.

Xie Kai likes tough players, and when Gibson was with the Bulls, he proved that he was a very tough man. He could bring blood and passion to the team with violent dunks and extremely aggressive rebounds. He never knew how to retreat and was a real man.

Gibson will compete with Iliasova for the starting power forward position, and it is obvious that he is in the lead position than his teammate McDermott in terms of playing time.

On February 25, the Thunder will play against the Lakers at home.

The Lakers have played so far this season, and their record is still bad. Although they changed their coach and allowed their old acquaintance Walton to take over, they replaced Byron Scott, the big show who only flattered Kobe. They originally expected Walton to lead the Warriors to usher in 24 consecutive victories when Cole was away, just like last season.

But who knows that ideals are full and reality is cruel. Walton did not replicate the miracle of the Warriors. Instead, he adjusted the team's lineup again and again, and had no idea what he was doing.

Lakers fans couldn't sit still, and some even left messages on the social media of General Manager Kubczek, wanting to replace the garbage of Walton.

Of course Walton knew that fans were unhappy with him. Not only were the fans unhappy with him, but the veterans and young people in the team were unhappy with him. He was also wronged. He had played the full-level account and now he played an account with nothing. As a "high-end player" who had been happy, he was at a loss.

Walton wanted to transplant the Warriors' system to the Lakers, but the Lakers team played triangular offense in the early years. During the Byron Scott, he played Princeton, X**D, and played everything. Now he played passes, cuts, runs and fights, and the players are in a daze.

The Warriors system, the big center Mozgov and powerful forward Ruhr Deng, who were recruited in the summer, were first abolished. They are not suitable for playing this. The second-tier pick Russell and the stubborn forward Randall like this, but this team did not form the Warriors' overall offensive system. They are just running X**D, and the defensive end is a collective paddle.

If it weren't for the lack of requirements for the record, Walton would have been fired long ago.

In this game, the Lakers continued their unknown system. Facing the three giants waiting for the thunder, they played more like an NBDL team.

Whether it is those fans who don’t understand football or those experts, you can see the huge gap in strength between the two teams at a glance. This is simply that college students play primary school students, and neither high school students play junior high school students.

There is no suspense in the result of the game. The Big Three all clocked in and got off work in three quarters, and became a garbage time game between the substitutes of both sides in the last quarter.

The Thunder easily defeated the Lakers and ushered in five consecutive victories, with a record of 43 wins and 15 losses, continuing to rank third in the Western Conference.

Some Lakers fans have always attributed the team's various blind operations during the offseason and the team's current poor record to Xie Kai. If Xie Kai could join the Lakers in the offseason last summer, the team would not have signed a useless player like Mozgoff and Ruhr Deng.

However, Xie Kai had a different view. He seemed to have a different view, even if he went to the Lakers under the leadership of Walton, he would probably have a chance to enter the playoffs if he was exhausted! If he was injured, his career would be severely tested.
Chapter completed!