We’re but two games into the regular season, a year marked by a transition to what we believe will be a year-long competitive team that can go deeper into the playoffs. Small sample size, yada, yada.
The Thunder are 0-2 through two games in California, and two losses that bear similar patterns. In both games, the Thunder started off slow, gained momentum, and then couldn’t close at the end. More specifically, OKC’s offense was horribly stagnant for much of the game, then the offense was buoyed by better shot-making by several players, only for that shooting to dry up with the game was on the line with nothing else to fall back on.