Avery Johnson to coach Thunder?

[Andrew]

Story @ RealGM

It could be just idle speculation and even if the Thunder are interested, Avery Johnson might not be. Still, my guess is that he's far from done with coaching and like so many coaches before him, the analyst gig will prove to be a short rest stop before his next coaching gig and the team does have a bright future, even if the current season is rather bleak.

[xingzup19]

This will so put a crimp on his win-loss record. Lol!

[Clueminati017]

Story @ RealGM

It could be just idle speculation and even if the Thunder are interested, Avery Johnson might not be. Still, my guess is that he's far from done with coaching and like so many coaches before him, the analyst gig will prove to be a short rest stop before his next coaching gig and the team does have a bright future, even if the current season is rather bleak.

Bleak????

Bleak is not the word I'm looking for. How many times that the Thunder/Sonics become a lottery team after the Kemp & Payton era? This team had life when they had Ray Allen and Rashad Lewis, but just those dumbass international picks of Johan Petro, Mohamed (Saer) Sene, and Mikael Gelabale. Look at the positive players like Vladimir Radmonovic, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Russell Westbrook, Rashad Lewis, Luke Ridinour, Robert Swift who is improving, and it's strange they was known as a talented young team. They could've been the Western Conference version of the Baby Bulls on how the Blazers are right now. If they assembled that team better and kept the players they needed before moving to OKC.

[jonthefon]

Good luck for the Thunder with Avery's iso system. At least it means Kevin Durant will be taking 40 shots a game.

That team may have looked in better shape if they had kept Allen: Ridnour, Allen, Durant, Collison, Wilcox wouldn't the worst starting lineup out there (lacking a banger in the post), and if they had picked Glen Davis, he could've been off the bench with "meh" sort of guys such as Swift, Damien Wilkins and Gelabale.

[Andrew]

Bleak????

Bleak is not the word I'm looking for. How many times that the Thunder/Sonics become a lottery team after the Kemp & Payton era? This team had life when they had Ray Allen and Rashad Lewis, but just those dumbass international picks of Johan Petro, Mohamed (Saer) Sene, and Mikael Gelabale. Look at the positive players like Vladimir Radmonovic, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Russell Westbrook, Rashad Lewis, Luke Ridinour, Robert Swift who is improving, and it's strange they was known as a talented young team. They could've been the Western Conference version of the Baby Bulls on how the Blazers are right now. If they assembled that team better and kept the players they needed before moving to OKC.

Yeah, bleak was putting it mildly. Still, in their defense some of those players got good offers from better teams and the Ray Allen trade was probably something they needed to do if they wanted to start over and rebuild around Durant (I still remember Pasta's reaction to that at the Draft though) and Lewis was after a huge payday that would've choked up their payroll for years to come. They've got some good young players moving forward but yeah, they wasted some picks and lost some good players in recent years.

[mynameisgerd]

All i can say is that the Thunders is not good as of now. But no one knows! You see, the Celtics is the worst team back to the 06-07 season, but they managed to get the title the next season! Celtics' 12-game losing streak, Thunders' 13-game losing streak, not much of a difference there.

[NovU]

All i can say is that the Thunders is not good as of now. But no one knows! You see, the Celtics is the worst team back to the 06-07 season, but they managed to get the title the next season! Celtics' 12-game losing streak, Thunders' 13-game losing streak, not much of a difference there.

I suspect the losing streak will end anytime soon...

[Andrew]

All i can say is that the Thunders is not good as of now. But no one knows! You see, the Celtics is the worst team back to the 06-07 season, but they managed to get the title the next season! Celtics' 12-game losing streak, Thunders' 13-game losing streak, not much of a difference there.

They also traded for Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, assembling an impressive trio of All-Stars to lead them. I don't see the Thunder being able to do that this offseason.