When you’ve lost four straight games and looked bad doing it, there’s no reason to get too picky about how you end that losing streak.
Unless you’re playing a shell of the shell of a team that is headed to nowhere, and you’re playing at home, and you should be playing desperate.
Those things considered, the Thunder’s 99-95 victory over Memphis on Sunday night was one of the more dubious victories in OKC’s recent history.
Memphis already had stripped away the grit-‘n-grind identity of the Grizzlies a perennial Western Conference playoff team. Tony Allen and Zach Randolph are long gone.