Few preseason predictions earmarked the OKC Thunder to be in the playoff mix. Yet, 27 games, or a third of the way into an 82 game campaign the team resides on the West’s seventh ladder rung. The win on Wednesday versus the Grizzlies was eerily similar to the game prior. Both required the team to come back from over 20 point deficits.
How the team got to this point in the matches and how they responded had some similarities and some key differences. With that let’s look at the key takeaways.
Drop the bad habits:
The 2019-20 iteration of the OKC Thunder has definitive common themes running through this campaign.