For the second time in three games, the OKC Thunder found a way to turn clutch time into winning time. After shedding their bad habit of getting out to poor starts the Thunder built up what would ballon to a 16-point lead as Darius Bazley dropped in a layup at 5:44 of the second quarter.
Unfortunately, fixing every bad habit doesn’t typically all happen in one outing as was the case for the home team. OKC acquiesced to their second bad habit of coming out of the half time break cold. This resulted in the New Orleans Pelicans taking over the lead and by the time E’Twaun Moore hit his 3-point shot at 9:53 of the final frame the lead had built to a margin of eight.