NBA: Schröder outstanding! OKC is beating up the Warriors

What a performance of the OKC Thunder – and what a performance of Dennis Schröder! With 32 points, the German shines in the Blowout victory of his team in Golden State. Meanwhile, the master is going through the defeat on completely unknown terrain.

Again the Warriors were missing two of their most important people with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, but such a dismantling was not to be expected – especially not in front of a home audience. But although Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson both played well with 27 points, Golden State had no realistic chance of winning this game. OKC presented itself too hungry, too versatile and too deep for that. Which, above all, was personified by one person.

Dennis Schröder made his best game in Oakland since switching to the Thunder. The Braunschweig player hit almost everything from outside (5/6 3FG), which also made his penetration easier – Golden State had no means against him and had to watch Schröder play a full 32 points (plus 4 assists). He scored more points on his own than the entire Warriors bench and, more importantly, he was in perfect harmony with Russell Westbrook at times.

The MVP of 2017 held back in this game as a scorer, especially as the throw didn’t want to fall anyway (11 points, 5/15 FG), with 11 rebounds and 13 assists it was still enough for his first triple-double this season. And Westbrook simply wasn’t in demand as a scorer either, other Thunder players took over: Paul George scored 25 points, Steven Adams 20 and Jerian Grant 14, and then there was Schröder.

All around it would have been an almost perfect evening for OKC if it hadn’t been for the moment of shock with Hamidou Diallo. In the fight for a rebound, the rookie twisted his leg badly and had to be taken out of the hall with a stretcher. He hasn’t been diagnosed yet.

Meanwhile the Warriors had their fourth defeat in a row – such a series did not exist in the entire Steve Kerr era.