Oklahoma City’s three point guard lineup is a large part of why the Thunder has been so successful this season.
OKC went 12-5 in the month of January and are in the midst of a seven-game road-winning streak, the second-longest in franchise history.
The situation in Oklahoma City couldn’t be more different than the situation in New York.
The Knicks are, well, still the Knicks.
They were 13-36 coming into Saturday, fresh off a fourth-quarter brawl in a blowout home loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday night.
The way it stands, the New York Knicks are in need of a lot of things, and a new general manager is rumored to be one of them.
According to Stefan Bondy of New York Daily News, another one of those things is a point guard. And the Knicks have reportedly got their sights set on one from Oklahoma City.
One thing to keep in mind: the Knicks are looking for a point guard and, according to a source, are high on OKC’s Dennis Schroder.
Schroder has been excellent in his sixth-man role for the Thunder this season.
He’s third on the team in scoring (barely), averaging 19.1 points while playing starter’s time, spending 31.1 minutes per game on the court.
He is shooting a career-best 47.2% from the floor and has raised his 3-point percentage to 38.8%, up from 34.1% a year ago.
Playing the point wouldn’t be something new for Schroder either.
As noted by Ashish Mathur of Clutch Points, “the German floor general has experience as a starter in the NBA, as he was the starting point guard for the Atlanta Hawks before the Thunder acquired him from Atlanta.”
From 2016 through 2018, Schroder started a total of 145 games at point guard for the Hawks.
Contractually, Schroder is making $15.5 million both this year and next year. The 2020-21 season is the last on his current contract before he becomes a free agent in the summer of 2021.