The Thunder are in the middle of a roster shift — the kind of players you can to put around two elite perimeter players and who you want to put around just one are different animals. There’s a shift coming, with the most obvious step being the need to add shooting.
Part of that is getting size on the wing — and that could mean the available Rudy Gay, reports Zach Lowe of ESPN.
You have to like the plan on paper — Roberson forced James Harden into 13 points on 16 shots with six turnovers, he has turns as an excellent defender, but he’s an offensive black hole (2-of-11 vs Rockets) and you need to have players that cover him. Gay, who has an old-school isolation and midrange game but makes it work, can be part of that.
The more interesting question is what they would offer, and what the Kings would accept? It’s too early for Sacramento (4-8) to give up on its playoff dreams, but if they reach that point closer to the deadline, they will be willing to take pieces that are forward-looking not help now. If the Kings don’t look like a playoff team, they have a number of big decisions to make.
Gay is going to get dealt, and with the Thunder in the playoff mix stranger things have happened.
