The Thunder begins its third month of this NBA season with a solid place in the Western Conference standings. But not all standings are created equal.
You’ve got scheduling discrepancies, in terms of opponents and in terms of home/road breakdowns. And there are other ways to measure a team’s’ strength; the analytics crowd says point differential is a better indicator of team strength than is straight record.
So where does the Thunder rank? At 18-10, OKC is third in the West, behind the 20-9 Nuggets and the 20-10 Warriors.
But how does the Thunder stand in other measurements?