With 16 games left in their regular season, the Oklahoma City Thunder find themselves in the lower rungs of the Western Conference playoff bubble, with a difficult road ahead now as they try to play catch-up. OKC kicked off the post-All Star Break portion of their schedule (5th easiest in the league at the time) with 5 straight losses. Overall, they’re just 3-6 in the 9 games since the break and sit in 12th place as of this writing.
Not all of that is entirely their fault, though. The Thunder, who are just 2 games back in the loss column of the currently 7th seeded Golden State Warriors, have largely been without the services of first time All Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander since the All Star Game.