Durant and Westbrook combine for 68 as Oklahoma City Thunder beat Atlanta Hawks 100-92: NBA Recap
Kevin Durant posted a season high 41 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lift Oklahoma City Thunder to a 100-92 victory over Atlanta Hawks here at the Philips Arena on Wednesday night. This was OKC's 12th straight win.
Russell Westbrook collected a double-double, picking up 27 points and handing out 11 assists as no other Thunder player made it into double digit scoring figures. Serge Ibaka found it hard to make his shots after a monstrous game
against the San Antonio Spurs. He was held to 4 points but did grab 14 rebounds on the night.
Hawks came into this game after an overtime win over the Washington Wizards a night ago. Josh Smith posted a double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds, Jeff Teague fell one assist shy of his double-double as he finished off
with 19 points and 9 assists while Al Horford added 13 points for the Hawks.
Smith made a dunk shot early in the first period to put the Hawks ahead on 6-2 before Durant tied the score on 6 with a running layup. It was Russell Westbrook who took care of the scoring for the Thunder in the first half, he
made a jumper to make it all square on 17 and Oklahoma City were leading 23-20 by the end of the quarter.
Anthony Morrow made a three pointer to pull the Thunder within 23-27 early in the second period. But the Thunder were racing away, Durant nailed a three pointer to push their lead to 47-34, and a Kyle Korver three pointer had the
Hawks trailing 41-55 at halftime.
KD took control of the game in the second half, he scored one from foul line to have them leading 60-47 early in the third quarter. Later on, Thunder pushed their lead to 71-54 but the Hawks closed the period with an 8 nil run
to reduce the deficit down to 66-73.
Atlanta made it a four point game early in the fourth period but they could not stop the red hot Durant who kept on scoring basket after basket.
"We double-teamed him, we zoned him," said Hawks coach Larry Drew. "He still made shots. You can't stop him when he's hot like that."
Durant connected a shot from downtown to put Thunder up 88-80, and moments later fired another one to extend Thunder's advantage to 12 points with 2:15 on the regulation.
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