In the buildup to the 2018-19 season, there was a lot of talk in the Thunder camp about being unpredictable. That applied tonight in the starting lineup, in the flow of transition offense and in the swarming nature of the defense.
The signature sequence in the Thunder’s 117-110 victory came in the third quarter, when on back-to-back possessions Russell Westbrook turned two of his squad’s defensive stops into fast break layups. That sounds pretty usual, right?
Well instead of Westbrook attacking 94 feet, slaloming like a Porsche through defenders, the Thunder point guard’s buckets came off passes from Dennis Schröder and Paul George in the flow of a transition attack.