ATLANTA – On Tuesday morning the Thunder’s coaches and players knew the Atlanta Hawks were a team that would test them from behind the three-point line, in the deep paint and on second chances. All of those areas hurt the Thunder later that night, and aside from the first and third quarters the Hawks were dominant, scoring 45 points in each of the second and fourth quarters in a 142-126 Thunder loss.
Head Coach Billy Donovan said that while there certainly were some x’s and o’s issues in the game - namely the weak side protection of the rim - that it was a team-wide lackluster performance that did the Thunder in.