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Stronger Start, Tighter Defense Needed in Rematch – OU Medicine Game Day Report: OKC at TOR

Broadcast Information

  • Tip-off: 6:30 p.m. CT
  • Television: Fox Sports Oklahoma

TORONTO – A few steps slow in transition defense. In the wrong position defensively. Playing in a crowd on offense. On each possession, the small mistakes can be a killer. As the Thunder saw on Wednesday night, the final margin in most NBA games is so narrow, that one or two possessions can shape the whole context of the game, and certainly determine the difference between a win and a loss.

Every trip down court matters, but for the Thunder in its 123-114 overtime loss to the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday, the urgency that propelled them to an inspiring fourth quarter comeback wasn’t there in the first quarter, when it allowed 6 made three-pointers and 39 points.