After head coach Mark Daigneault and the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder beat the champion Boston Celtics 105-92, they prolonged their profitable streak to a whopping 15 straight. The Thunder held the Celtics to 27 second-half factors, humbling the NBA champs whereas erasing a 13-point deficit. Nonetheless, Daigneault reminded reporters it was one in every of 82 regular-season video games.
No matter the way it seemed, the Thunder head coach primarily reminded reporters a win’s a win.
“It is one in every of 82, like I advised you earlier than the sport. Each recreation’s a unique problem. We’re all working our personal race. We occur to be bumping towards them,” Daignealut stated. “We’ll go our separate methods. So will they… the explanation we’re within the place we’re proper now could be as a result of we have improved, and we have had our heads down and been very current in competitors, and if we wish to proceed to enhance, that is what now we have to proceed to do.”
Mark Daigneault and the Thunder prolonged their historic profitable streak to fifteen straight. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 33 factors led 5 Thunder gamers in double figures, together with Aaron Wiggins (15 factors), Lu Dort (14 factors), Cason Wallace (13 factors), and Jalen Williams (10 factors). Gilgeous-Alexander additionally completed with 11 rebounds, six assists, three steals, and two blocks, whereas Williams chipped in six rebounds, 5 assists, and one steal.
After the Celtics went 1-for-13 from deep within the third quarter, ending with solely 15 factors earlier than being held to a dozen within the closing body, the Thunder capitalized on a 28-10 earlier than retaining Boston at bay within the closing stretch. Jayson Tatum scored a team-high 26 factors and completed with 10 rebounds. Jaylen Brown scored 21 factors, but it surely all got here within the first half earlier than he went scoreless within the second, and Kristaps Porzingis added 19 factors and 9 rebounds.
Thunder makes two roster strikes after humbling champion Celtics
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Shortly after beating the Boston Celtics, the Thunder assigned Ousmane Dieng and Dillon Jones to the G League’s Oklahoma Metropolis Blue. The Thunder wasted no time assigning their prospects shortly after their win towards the Celtics. Forward of a four-game highway, following their good 5-0 homestand, Oklahoma Metropolis assigned the twenty sixth total choose again to the Blue together with its 2022 eleventh total choose, per Thunder Wire’s Clemente Almanza.
“The Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder has assigned forwards Ousmane Dieng and Dillon Jones to the Oklahoma Metropolis Blue of the NBA G League,” Almanza reported.
The Thunder’s four-game journey begins towards the Cavs, who they path by 1.0 recreation for one of the best file within the NBA.