Five takeaways from the Thunder’s loss in Milwaukee
By Tony Heim
Every now and then the OKC Thunder play one quarter of fantastic basketball than slowly fall apart. In tonight’s 98-94 loss, that’s exactly what happened.
Here’s the thing. These games are going to happen to the OKC Thunder all year. They are young. And still fairly inexperienced playing together. But you can’t help but love these games frustrated.
Oklahoma City jumped out to an early 27-13 lead behind a strong Steven Adams first quarter. He scored 12 points on 5-5 shooting from the field and 2-2 from the line; he got six attempts the rest of the game.
Russell Westbrook had an off shooting night-and in typical Russ fashion-decided to keep shooting instead of feeding the hot hands on his team. By the end of the fourth quarter, everybody not named Westbrook looked afraid to shoot the ball. The offense suffered because of it.
On the defensive end the Thunder had a difficult job keeping Milwaukee off the glass. The Bucks are a smaller team (well besides their 6’11 point guard) but their athleticism cause problems for OKC all night.
Instead of recapping the game (you can find Thunderous Intentions’ recap here if you are interested), we’re going to look at the five biggest takeaways from tonight’s game. Did you see something I missed? Tweet us @thunderousint or comment on our Facebook page and we will get your opinion heard!
Now let’s get this party started.