Has a singular loss completely derailed a franchise’s progress whether in the past or still facing repurcussions today?

  • Far_Lie_7760@fediverser.communick.devB
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    11 months ago

    2016 WCF game 6 AKA the Klay game. If the Thunder win that game I truly believe we’re the champions that year. Instead we lose KD and don’t make it out of the first round for 7 years now. We went into the 4th quarter up by 8 with a chance to close vs the best regular season team of all time and advance to the finals

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      11 months ago

      In a way, it’s pretty damn impressive that Presti managed to take a team that lost the most valuable asset in the entire league for nothing, and still turn around and put together a squad with Westbook, PG and Melo.

      Thunder didn’t go into full rebuild mode after that, they actually made the playoffs for three straight years.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah and it kind of speaks to me being a little bit spoiled to have been a fan of this team for 15 years and only been legitimately bad for like 3 years total. It was just the end of 6 years of contention after losing that game