Five stats that correlate with Thunder wins/losses
By Tony Heim
1. The Thunder are 7-1 when fully healthy
Do you realize we’ve only watched six full games of healthy Thunder basketball? I guess that shouldn’t come as a surprise considering our wonderful past.
Oklahoma City played virtually the entire first half of the season without their backup point guard, and they were just fine. They lost Adams for a couple games. Now the second half of the Stache Brothers is out.
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The point is: we don’t really know how good this team is. This is their first time playing together on a new team without [REDACTED] and they haven’t even had ten games together fully healthy!!
We went into this season expecting to feel pain. They are still above Vegas’ projections from the beginning of the season. We’ve seen true growth from virtually every player.
Look for the positives in this season. Sure I just spent the last ten minutes bashing players/coaches for what they are doing wrong, but that’s my job. It’s also my job to present to you the state of this team as accurately as possible.
Bonus Fact: The Thunder lost the second best player in the world and are still set to make the playoffs. Rejoice.
All stats taken from Basketball Reference unless otherwise noted