After a total team effort in New Orleans on Friday night, Oklahoma City followed it up with the worst loss of the entire season on Sunday. The Thunder showed up to Detroit with no effort or intensity, losing to the NBA’s worst team 120-104.
The Detroit Pistons had won just two games in the entire month of January. As a team, the Pistons came into Sunday’s contest 5-40 overall, with zero wins against teams over .500. After just recently taking over the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, the Thunder chose a miserable time to lay an egg.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was about the only Thunder player who showed up, scoring 31 points in 29 minutes on 13-of-20 shooting. Jalen Williams helped out, too, adding 20 points on 8-of-16 shooting.
After a strong opening quarter, Chet Holmgren hit a wall, finishing with nine points on 4-of-11 shooting in 23 minutes.
There’s no other words to describe Sunday’s matinee besides disastrous. The team was certainly looking ahead to Monday’s showdown against Minnesota, and it bit them in the end.