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Thunder beat Boston, 118-112 behind Shae's 34 pts and Chet's 23 pts and 15 rebs. They sweep the season series. Boston shot 20-63 from 3 and still lost. Brown was held to 10 pts and fouled out.

I watched half of game. I was really surprised by Chet. He was very aggresive and plays much stronger than one would assume he is capable of looking just at his frame. OKC still has one weak spot in the starting line-up on offense. Wiggins was 0-9 in this one, Caruso (didn't play) is not really a high volume offensive threat and neither is Wallace. I guess opponents will still be playing off those guys to make life more difficult for the other four guys. If they put Joe in on this spot, he will be attacked on defense. But I agree, OKC looks very dangerous so far. Their defense can be suffocating. 

Boston mostly just shot threes whole game and they were not really good doing it (just 31 %). Since they shot 60 of them, if they made just three more, their overall percentage would still be below 40 %, but game could look very differently. They did have 12 more overall attempts due to good rebounding (seems like another OKC weakness). With every game I am more surprised by Horford and how well he can play at his age. I think he is their glue guy, perhaps even most important player.