The Oklahoma City Thunder keeps finding that young players in their first year of wearing NBA jerseys are contributing to the team’s improvement. And Friday night’s win over the Detroit Pistons proved that again.
Kevin Durant scored 27 points, and a pair of rookies led Oklahoma City on a key run in the fourth quarter as the Thunder snapped a three-game losing streak with a 109-98 victory over the Pistons on Friday night.
With Durant and the other starters failing to play with the energy, Coach Scott Brooks was seeking, turning to his bench, and he had rookies James Harden and Serge Ibaka to lead the way in a tight game.
“Those two rookies, they came in and did a great job of controlling the game in the fourth quarter,” Brooks said.
Harden scored Oklahoma City’s first seven points of the fourth quarter to help the Thunder stretch their lead, and Nick Collison’s tip-in pushed the advantage to 86-77.
After Charlie Villanueva scored the next five points for Detroit, Harden and Ibaka combined on a 9-0 run to give Oklahoma City its largest lead of the night, 95-82. Harden hit a 3-pointer and then assisted on back-to-back baskets by Ibaka.
Harden totally scored 14 points and had career-high eight assists while Ibaka scored a career-high 12. Thus the Thunder won their first game after losing their last two home games against the Dallas and Denver respectively.
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