As Brandon waxed yesterday, the tank is on for a realistic target: #5 lottery position for the 2021 draft. The goal for the rest of the season is clear: develop players and lose games.
One thing that separates the Thunder from the Process-era Sixers, beyond their effectiveness in not-winning: good will. Sam Hinkie was a renegade doing a U-turn in a makeshift Philadelphia tank. Sam Presti has built so much of OKC from the ground up, and has so much cache in the league, that onlookers still think there’s a batman steering the OKC lose-mobile to an eventual–if unconventional–finish line of success.