Time flies when you’re playing well. The regular season is already a quarter way over, and despite a weird loss to Denver over the weekend, the Thunder are 12-7, and officially in 5th place in the western Conference- but the race is so crowded that they are only 1.5 games out of 1st. Considering that the Thunder started last season a disastrous 8-12 before righting the ship, and that they have been without Russell Westbrook for almost half the season so far, OKC should be very pleased indeed.
The quarter way mark is the point at which sample sizes get large enough that stats and records actually mean something.