TORONTO – Andre Roberson kept moving his feet, position his body in between DeMar DeRozan and the basket. As the shot clock wound down, Roberson forced DeRozan into a fall-away mid-range jumper that clanged off the iron. Russell Westbrook grabbed the tipped-out rebound at the three-point line and you could probably guess what happened next.
Westbrook’s one-man fast break and two-handed flush was two of the Thunder’s 27 points in transition during a 119-100 win over the Toronto Raptors on Monday night, and it was emblematic of how the game went for all 48 minutes. Against the second best team in the Eastern Conference, Head Coach Billy Donovan’s club was absolutely terrific on both ends of the floor as the Thunder earned its eighth straight victory and improve to 52-22 on the year.