Oklahoma City has one of the deepest rosters in the NBA and it’ll be more important than ever this season.
In the modern NBA, there are plenty of different approaches to building a roster. There are also many different opinions to which roster build is best suited to compete for an NBA championship.
“Last thing on the season and the length of it, I think the depth of teams in the league and I think depth in general is really important,” Presti said. “I think depth relative to the parity in the league that we see now is directly linked because the teams are so deep.” Oklahoma City’s general manager also noted the physical style of basketball the NBA shifted towards mid season a year ago. It’s hard for guys to play every single game. And the Thunder were one of the few teams fortunate to have injury luck while other playoff hopefuls couldn’t say the same. Planning for bad breaks is an important part to building a roster in the NBA.
“But you're still introducing a level of physicality into the game every single night that's going to wear anybody down. Couple that with the fact that the second half of the season is more compressed with less days off and more games, more travel days than we've seen in 10 to 12 years, and you're going to see just the attrition of the league probably change a little bit more, but to get a better product, which is totally understandable. But I think depth matters there.
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