{"id":300949,"date":"2025-11-22T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300949\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:03:09","slug":"thunder-score-22-straight-points-in-huge-3rd-quarter-to-rout-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300949\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder score 22 straight points in huge 3rd quarter to rout Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> scored 31 points, Oklahoma City had a 33-4 run and the defending champion Thunder<\/a> routed the Utah Jazz<\/a> 144-112<\/a> on Friday night in NBA Cup play to improve to 16-1 and push their winning streak to eight.<\/p>\n

The Thunder trailed by as many as 18 points in the first half; their 32-point win was the largest by any team that trailed by 15 or more points in the play-by-play era (since 1997-98).<\/p>\n

It was also Oklahoma City’s second-largest comeback win this season, after it trailed the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> by 19 points Nov. 9. The Thunder improved to 5-0 when trailing by double digits, the only team without a loss in such games.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander was shooting less than 27% on 3-pointers after seven games but has made half his long-range shots since then and all three attempts from beyond the arc against Utah to go along with 9-of-13 shooting from the field and 10-of-12 from the line.<\/p>\n

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Gilgeous-Alexander now has 30-plus points in 14 of his first 17 games, the most by any player in his team’s first 17 games of a season since Michael Jordan in 1986-87.<\/p>\n

Isaiah Joe<\/a> scored 16 points, and Jaylin Williams<\/a> made 5 3s for a season-high 15 points for Oklahoma City. The Thunder — 2-0 in the NBA Cup — shot 61.4% from the field and a season-best 62.2% on 3s, making 23 of 37.<\/p>\n

Keyonte George<\/a> scored 20 points, and Lauri Markkanen<\/a> added 19 for Utah. The Jazz are 5-10 overall and 0-3 in tournament play.<\/p>\n

The Thunder forced 28 turnovers and turned them into 44 points, disrupting the Jazz’s sets and visibly frustrating Utah’s players.<\/p>\n

Utah led 84-77 before the Thunder finished the third quarter on the 33-4 run, including 22 points in a row. Oklahoma City is the league’s best third-quarter team and showed it by forcing nine turnovers with suffocating pressure defense while shooting 9 for 13 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander scored 12 as OKC outscored Utah 43-20 in the period. Incredibly, Utah led by 18 points (39-21) before OKC led by 36 late in the game.<\/p>\n

The Jazz scored 44 points in the first quarter, more than any team has tallied in any quarter against the Thunder this season, to lead 44-30. That 14-point deficit after the first quarter tied the largest by a team that went on to win by 30-plus points in NBA history.<\/p>\n

The Jazz led the entire first half, but the Thunder closed to 68-67. Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault was assessed a technical foul arguing a non-call at the halftime buzzer.<\/p>\n

ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, Oklahoma City had a 33-4 run and the defending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-300949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}