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After winning the last three of their four preseason games, the Oklahoma City Thunder have already started to develop a certain familiarity with each other, especially with the new acquisitions on the team.
Center Steven Adams noted the positives of having a veteran like Carmelo Anthony, one that has never been known by his defense — an aspect that can have certain advantages, according to him.
“The good thing with Melo — he's getting old, mate,” Adams said, according to Brett Dawson of The Oklahoman; partly taking a jab after being described as “someone from Game of Thrones” upon Anthony's arrival. “Mostly the old guys are good at talking because they have to. They have to make up for their movement. It would suck if he didn't talk and he didn't move. He can talk, which is really good. It solves a lot of problems.”
Adams solves some of these problems as well, thanks to the diversity in his defensive game.
“It makes it easier for myself and other guys out there on the court to know that we have an agile big like that, a very aggressive big,” Anthony said. “And we can play off of that, and we can be aggressive knowing that he has our backs, too.”
As a center, Adams has the toughest transition trying to cover stretch bigs, which can keep him from his primary task of being the team's rim protector; a transition he's noted to be “the hardest thing in basketball.”
