Things can change so quickly in sports. In a snap of the finger you can go from riding a wave to drowning underwater. The thing is, it is impossible to predict. It just happens.
The NBA is weird like that.
The Oklahoma City Thunder began the year playing sloppier than a kindergartener’s art project. The offense was sporadic, the defense let up easy, and the chemistry of the team seemed non-existent. An 0-4 start had experts and analysts across the country calling the downfall and predicting the Thunder would miss out on the playoffs.
Soon enough, the snap of a finger came.