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to read that. Let's get rolling here, and we've had another marquee matchup, the Oklahoma City

Thunder on the midst of a stretch right now where their record-setting defense is

playing three pretty much record-setting offenses. First, the Knicks, then Boston, then the

Caz. All these are well over a 120 offensive rating, and they've got quite a bit of separation

from the rest of the league. And they took care of the Knicks with a ridiculous defensive performance in the second

half and then they did the same to the Boston Celtics on Sunday, 105.92 was the final.

The Boston Celtics scored 27 points in the entire second half, 15 in the third, 12 in the fourth.

It was a 29 to 12 fourth quarter for the Oklahoma City

Thunder. And sure, a portion of the story, especially in that second half, is Boston missing a ton of

threes. They were three of 24. Overall in the game, Boston was a comparative pedestrian, nine of 46.

So if those go in a little bit more, and I thought that the

shots that Boston took in the second half, those shots themselves were, you know, they missed

more than they, you know, like the shot making was negative. Like they missed more than they

normally would. However, I don't think that's the story. I think the story of OKC's defense in Boston's offense in that second half was the pressure, the turnovers, and the shots that bought the possessions where Boston didn't get a shot, got a shot late, didn't get a good shot.

And that's the story of that second half.

Now, that really is what it was about for me as well. And I didn't

think OKC's offense was amazing against Boston's defense by any means. But when they were able to

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