without shai this like a 6-8 seed team bc the offense so heavily relies on his production and the gravity that results from him doing what he does best on offense
the offense would slow to a crawl. them boys look lost without him on the floor after he gets the offense going can u imagine them not being able to get anything off for 48 minutes bc the offensive engine (whole reason the guys can get open looks) is out of a significant stretch
another interesting thing is we’ve never seen this OKC team have to play a significant stretch w/o SGA. to SGA’s credit, the man is a warrior & doesn’t miss games (incredibly valuable). we have no clue what the team looks like without him. i’d be interested to see how they perform w/o him for 30 game stretch. I absolutely think they’d be worse, but idk they fall off a cliff. I still think they win a shit ton of games.