You can look at this game two ways:
1) In their first game without James Harden, trying to work in new pieces, with Kevin Durant playing average (for him), Russell Westbrook playing like butt, Serge Ibaka only scoring four points, the team shooting 37.7 percent from the floor, all on the road against the Spurs, the Thunder were a bad turnover and a Tony Parker miracle 3 and a buzzer beater away from starting the season off on a very nice 1-0 note.
Or…
2) The Spurs, playing a second game of a back-to-back, sans Manu Ginobili, led through a lot of the game as the Thunder looked out of sync offensively, shooting only 37.7 percent from the floor, with 18 turnovers and clear offensive issues to sort out in a post-Harden world.
I think where you fall on those two points probably says a lot about you as a Thunder fan.
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2012-13 Preview: 35 statements made with extreme confidence
Most of the time when you make predictions, you’re mostly wrong and just hope to let it all fade into oblivion and never mention it again. Except when you’re right, then you make sure to remind everybody. Which is what I’m doing here. Of last season’s 35 predictions, I’d give myself at least 25 of them.
So I’m back with 35 new ones for the new season. And yep, I had to do some erasing and replacing because of The Trade, but you those predictions about The Beard Who Must Not Be Named were going to be wrong anyway. All made with the utmost highest amount of confidence and unwavering conviction. Keep Reading…