OKC Thunder nail biter in Chicago – 3 takeaways

The OKC Thunder escaped Chicago with the victory but learned valuable lessons to apply down the stretch. Three takeaways serve up the details.

The last time the OKC Thunder played Chicago, they hit half time trailing by 26 points. One Chris Paul inspirational locker room speech later led to a major comeback effort.

As he is wont to do the Point God also took the leadership reigns on the hardwood in that win. In the fourth quarter, he was perfect from the perimeter drilling five 3-pointers and when the buzzer sounded the Thunder were the team collecting the “W”.

Entering that match the Thunder held an 11-14 record. That was December 16th and since then the Thunder have collected 24 additional…