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Top-heavy OKC looks for Game 3 win
— -- OKLAHOMA CITY -- There has been a not-so-coincidental intersection at the number 9 after two games of the Western Conference finals for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
It's the number Serge Ibaka wears while expunging shots in the paint and spacing the floor from midrange. It's also the total number of points the three Thunder starters not named Kevin or Russell have scored.
Kendrick Perkins, Nick Collison and Thabo Sefolosha: nine points on 4-of-19 shooting. That's, uh, bad.
The absence of Ibaka has been the overwhelming storyline after the Spurs powered to two emphatic wins in San Antonio to put the Thunder in a chasmic 2-0 hole. The effortless dissection of the Thunder, highlighted by an average of 60 points in the paint from San Antonio, has affirmed Ibaka's importance on the defensive end.
But it's also been about the loss of any kind of offensive balance and trust. In Game 2, the Thunder played 13 consecutive minutes spanning the second and third quarter where Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant scored all 20 points and attempted 23 of 26 shots. Over that time, the Spurs outscored the Thunder 48-20 and blew the game wide-open.
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