How the OKC Thunder can get better this offseason

Find a shooter. Literally, any shooter.

Likelihood Index: 9/10

They have to know this is a problem by now, right? This is one of the easiest fixes I’m going to present today and if this doesn’t happen, everyone associated with the team needs to be gone.

Fun Index: 7/10

Please don’t make me watch Russ drive into a crowded lane eight thousand times per game again. I can’t do it. Please don’t make me. I beg of you.

The year is 2045. The permanent effects of global warming have made it almost impossible to leave our homes. California is underwater. The near-constant natural disasters have made the Weather Channel the most watched channel of all-time. Al Roker is our overlord. Yet, improbably, the NBA continues to exist. And in the NBA, the OKC Thunder, as they have for literally the entirety of their existence, still need shooting.

For what has to be the millionth straight season, the Thunder didn’t have nearly enough shooting to make their relatively basic offense work. Even with Paul George in the middle of one of the greatest seasons shooting the ball we’ve ever seen and inarguably the best we’ve seen from a forward, the Thunder still only managed to muster a laughable 34.8 percent from the perimeter.

Tied for the lowest mark of any team in the playoffs and, astoundingly, the lowest mark of any team to win at least 49 games in the last four years. The funny thing was, if not for an unprecedented stretch this season where they seemingly couldn’t miss for a few weeks, it could’ve been a lot worse.

The good news for the Thunder is that shooting is fairly easy to find, and there are even a few NBA Draft prospects projected in their range who they could get their hands on (looking at you, Cam Johnson). And yeah, this is the one thing the Thunder have never really been able to do, but I have a hard time believing they’re not going to at least find someone who can hit three’s this summer.