Alex Caruso of the Oklahoma City Thunder recently gave his thoughts on how the team will fair in the absence of Isaiah Hartenstein.
For an Oklahoma City Thunder team that is 34-6, there has been no shortage of advesity this season. The no excuse Thunder have had to navigate being without Che
Chet Holmgren hitting the road with the OKC Thunder comes as good news for the OKC Thunder who has been one of the teams in tremendous form.
Chet Holmgren’s recovery is on track after his November injury. Here are the latest updates on the Thunder star.
The Thunder have plenty of options. None will equate to Hartenstein but enough to survive this upcoming stretch. OKC has flexed its rubber-band-esque ability to stretch and transform its identity. It will be asked to do so again.
Despite having no centers active against the Cavs, the OKC Thunder still managed to blow Cleveland out of the water.
If any Thunder player -- or any player in the league -- is suited to attack the rehab needed to get back on the hardwood quickly and in good form, it's Holmgren. He missed his entire rookie season with a foot injury, yet was stellar in his first season playing.
For Cleveland, it was death by a thousand cuts. The Thunder topped that 30-2 run with back-to-back pick-six turnovers — with the demoralized Cavs barely bothering to jog back on the second one — shortly after a technical foul on Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson for intercepting a ref on the sideline and screaming “Call the f—ing foul!”
We're officially at the halfway point of the season. The Oklahoma City Thunder are atop the Western Conference. The Thunder are sitting comfortably in first place despite missing their second-best player for the majority of the season,
The Thunder's blowout of the Cavaliers was borne out of a 30-2 run spanning the middle of the first quarter to the beginning of the second quarter.
Cleveland and Oklahoma City have followed similar paths to success in the years since the departure of their franchise icons.