Thunder Season Debrief With News 9's Steve McGehee

The Thunder’s season came to an end Saturday night with a tough loss in Dallas.

News 9’s Thunder Reporter Steve McGehee recounted the best and worst moments from the season, and what he expects for players and the team next season.

McGehee traveled along with the team going from city to city, and had his own adventures along the way.

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Who made the biggest jump?

SGA finished second in the MVP voting. He had another outstanding year. He's only going to get better. He's gonna be first team all NBA when that comes out in a couple of days, but they have such a great young team.

Chet Holmgren hit a game-tying three at the buzzer at Golden State sending the game into overtime and they won that game in OT in San Francisco.

Jalen Williams. You're number two exceptional. He's only gonna get better. A lot of people think he could be an all-star by the time it's all said and done. 

Lou Dort, of course, a lot of people maybe wanted to trade this guy a couple of years ago, but I'm like, you don't trade him until you know what he looks like in the playoffs when it comes to defense and he was all over Luca Doncic. He was great and this is probably my favorite player.

 Aaron Wiggins is just a great role player coming off the bench. Number 21 Aaron Wiggins. These are guys, this is the reason why they're so good. They're a deep team right now and here's kind of behind the scenes in Phoenix. 

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What are your expectations for next season?

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I know we're upset about how that last series ended, but the team exceeded expectations. No, they didn't even make the playoffs last year. And then they finished up being the number one seed in the Western Conference, winning 57 games, and multiple awards.

They overachieve. Everybody out there in the NBA knows that this team is young and they're only gonna get better. Even some of the Dallas Mavericks fans said you guys are gonna be good for years to come and they are so right. It starts with the head coach, Marc Daigneault. He won NBA's Coach of the Year. 

They didn't jump the ball against Dallas. They knew exactly what to do. They had two points on the board five seconds into the game. They scouted that so well done by Mark and his staff.