Adjusting to life without Andre Roberson on defence has been tricky and the Thunder swallowed some Ls this week... right up until they thumped on the defending champions.

Some games get overshadowed by individual incidents. Last-second game-winners tend to clog up the memory, handily erasing the sloppiness that usual precedes the need for a last-second game-winner. Then, on the other side of things, there are injuries.

Steven Adams finished with 360,822 ASG fan votes in total, eleventh in the Western Conference frontcourt standings. He cracked the top ten in the West FC with 27 player votes too, although none of those pesky media jokers gave him anything.

Three wins and three double-doubles for Steven Adams. Check out the put-back dunks and the alley-oops, but also check out it out as he espouses his love of Jiu-Jitsu and Peyton Manning and his ambivalence towards Game of Thrones and Enes Kanter's All Star voting habits.

Been feeling good about the Thunder lately? Enjoyed the resurgence, enjoyed everyone seeming to accept and adapt to their roles on this team? Fancied the way they’d won eight of their last ten before this week, surging into the middle of the Western Conference playoff spots?

A double header in Los Angeles brought some scrappiness, particularly from those dirty Clippers, after OKC had copped a refereeing blunder against the Bucks and some self-inflicted blunders against the Mavs.

The Thunder are on a six-game winning streak and all of a sudden things look rather rosy. The Big Three are making buckets and their kiwi centre is getting it done all over the court. So take that, Jonas Valanciunas.