OKLAHOMA CITY — All the evidence needed to show how far Oklahoma City must come in order to eliminate the Jazz can be summed up thusly: Only 11 teams have overcome 3-1 deficits.
OKC isn’t one of them.
But it is one that gave up a 3-1 lead.
In 2016, the Thunder had Golden State on the run, one win away from the NBA Finals, yet lost. If that’s not a harbinger, neither is the fact that Russell Westbrook gained nothing by promising to shut down Ricky Rubio.
That’s the Thunder in a nutshell: focusing on individual matchups instead of team effort.