The Thunder team has become a team of great concern since the three young people, after the disintegration of the three youngsters, they also formed the Big Three of West, George and Anthony, but did not receive good results, after the Big Three, the Thunder began to enter the swing stage, and although Paul led the team to the playoffs, the team has always been regarded as a bad team.
Coming to the new season, many people still scoff at the Thunder, thinking that they are a bad team, but with Alexander's excellent individual play and the overall efforts of the Thunder players, this season, the West looks like it is going to add another dark horse team.
The Thunder have been in very good form recently, before today's game against the 76ers, they won 3 of 5 games, and there was a 33-point victory over the Thunder without Alexander, and when they came to today's game against the 76ers, the Thunder turned back and got the advantage, but the 76ers equalized the score with a wave of small climax at the end of the quarter. The Thunder continued to output in the second quarter, and the 76ers were a little dumbfounded, and at halftime, the Thunder had a 10-point advantage. After swapping venues, the 76ers briefly reversed the score, but the multi-point Thunder quickly regained control of the initiative on the court. The 76ers were always able to contain their opponent's momentum every time they wanted to start in the final quarter, eventually winning the 76ers 133-116, playing their fourth win in the last six games.
After winning this game, the Thunder's record this season has reached 19-23, ranking 12th in the West, and the record is equal to the Lakers, although the ranking looks relatively low, but only 1 win away from the 10th Timberwolves and 2.5 wins away from the 6th Clippers.
Today's game, Alexander continued the excellent form of this season, 10 of 16 shot with 37 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists in the comprehensive statistics, Alexander's performance this season does not need to be repeated, after scoring 37 points in this game, Alexander Thunder career 30+ times has exceeded 50 times, becoming the third player to achieve this after Wilson and Durant.
In the current Thunder team, Alexander is the absolute leader, both teammates and coaches are very recognized, today even the opponent was impressed by Alexander's performance, Maxi said that Alexander's talent is simply too good, no matter who defends him will be very difficult. Seibre said that Alexander's style of play is elusive, he plays at a good pace, and is very good at using opponents' mistakes to punish opponents.
In addition to Alexander, the Thunder can be said to be full of talent this season, to the second year of his career, Giddy, this season continues to improve, averaging 15.5 points, 7.9 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game, the basic data has been significantly improved, while the efficiency has also improved significantly, shooting 47.1% from the field, 34.2% from three-point range, 80.7% from the free throw line, and the three-point shooting rate has improved by more than 5 percentage points compared to the rookie season. The tall but thin point guard was not favored by the outside world after his debut, but his performance and progress in the last two seasons proved that he can fully take on the responsibility of a team's starting point guard.
In today's game against the 76 heat, Giddy finished with 20 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists on 7-of-14 shooting, and for his performance with the team at this stage, Giddy looked confident after the game, "Tonight's victory shows our strength, when we get into our form, we have the ability to wrestle with the best team in the league."
In addition to these two, like Dort, the defender with good attack and defense has actually proven his quality last season. And there is also the young Jaylen. Williams, Jaylin. Williams, Trey. Mann, Aaron. Wiggins These are young and very strong players, the current Thunder, the whole team is full of energy and talent, they only have Kendrick. Williams is over 25 years younger, and the rest of the people, especially the core players, are 21, 22 and 23 years old. In addition, there are young talents like Holmgren under the thunder field to recuperate, and the complete thunder is very worth looking forward to.
The recent Thunder are really like Giddy said, strong when they are strong, and when they faced the Lone Ranger, Celtics and 76ers in January, they won a total of 63 points! This season's Thunder, if they can make the play-offs, may be a qualitative improvement for their entire team, their age does not seem to support them to achieve better results, but their current performance has proven themselves fully capable of becoming a spoiler in the West, this season the Thunder are still dormant, next season they may take off directly.