The good of this game...
I don't think that, outside of Durant who missed a LOT of shots, the Thunder can play any better than this. Actually they can only play worse. No way Ibaka scores 20+ again. That's insane. Nearly every key player on their team put up big numbers tonight. That's just not going to happen every night.
Now the counter to that is that their best player, Durant, was their worst tonight and he can only play better.
On the other hand while the Mavs got amazing games from some players, there's clearly room for improvement all around. Meanwhile they clearly proved they can totally hang with and beat the Thunder... and the only reason OKC won is by hitting a long, desperation shot with a hand in his face and a player running at him.
Durant is good, but if it takes that to win you're not exactly dominating the other team.
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