on his podcast<\/a>, “7PM in Brooklyn.”<\/p>\nTake the stars out. The \u2018others\u2019 on San Antonio is better than the \u2018others\u2019 on OKC.,” said Anthony on one of the main reasons as to why the Thunder can’t seem to crack the code against the Spurs. “That\u2019s where the game is always won at between OKC and San Antonio.”<\/p>\n
Their setback is coming now,” Anthony prefaced before his last statement.<\/p>\n
He’s not being untruthful. Ever since then, it’s kind of set the guys in Bricktown off course. The Spurs offered the Thunder its second loss on the year when they first played on Dec.13\u2014now just at a month ago, Oklahoma City has now gathered five more losses to its resume.<\/p>\n
The team is still has the NBA-leading record and still sits comfortably in the top spot in the west, but it provided some questions surrounding the fortitude of this team. <\/p>\n
If they cannot beat the Spurs on the road or even in the Paycom Center throughout the regular season, what could that mean for if these two teams somehow meet in the postseason? It’s not an invalid question when you get beaten by a team three times in a row.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City isn’t impenetrable, but they also don’t necessarily claim to be. The Thunder knows it needs to improve, and it’s still shown its ability to grind out a victory when it needs. Though this team’s identity and effort has sort of been stripped away it seems, its still the best team in the league in the association in terms of record.<\/p>\n
Anthony isn’t wrong in speaking that the Spurs’ players are better\u2014but it depends if he’s speaking of talent or performance. Talent, not necessarily. Performance, definitely.<\/p>\n
We’ll get to see these two rosters pinned against each other on Tuesday night though, as the Thunder look to get its first win against the Spurs in four contests on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In over the course of the last month, the mainstream NBA audience and many more saw the San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-405994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}