Oklahoma City • Russell Westbrook, looking resplendent in his postgame dark threads and shades, put it modestly when he said of him and his teammates: “We played off of each other very, very well.”
But they also counted on extraordinary talent — much of it Westbrook’s — to overcome deficiencies most teams could not have conquered.
The Thunder were brilliant — at least for 20 minutes — against the Jazz, in a game they ended up winning, 107-99.
Over the first 28 minutes, if that’s all anybody had seen, anybody wouldn’t have believed the Jazz could lose this contest.