
For a quarter, it looked a lot like a midseason game for the Thunder. Russell Westbrook was gunning, Kevin Durant was finding a scoring rhythm and Oklahoma City seemed to have things completely under control.
Westbrook scored 16 of the Thunder’s first 21 points — in about six minutes, mind you — with Durant adding 13. Neither played at all in the second half though and eventually the Rockets’ second (and third) unit outlasted OKC’s, 107-105.
It was 48 minutes of actual, real-life basketball though. And with some interesting storylines and questions coming into training camp and the preseason, we got a little look into it all Wednesday.
Five big thoughts from the game: Keep Reading…








Under the radar and dreaming
Whether it was on the flight home, or when they ran out of the tunnel and saw a rabid sea of 18,203 clothed in blue, something clicked.
The Thunder were facing the mighty Spurs, the unbeatable monster that hadn’t lost in some 60 days. Down two games to none, everybody — I mean everybody — was writing them off. But with kind of a wounded animal mentality, the Thunder embraced being the underdog, embraced the “Nobody Believes In Us” mindset, embraced it being us versus the world and took four straight from San Antonio.
Then in the Finals, it flipped. The Thunder entered it being the favorites and after taking Game 1, the whole thing turned. People had given up on the Heat and the Thunder were the ones that had all the backing. No more talk about Oklahoma City being too young, no more talk about having to wait their turn, no more talk about shocking the world. No more hunting. They were the hunted. Keep Reading…