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The Thunder were rolling coming into tonight on an 11-game win streak ahead of a major matchup vs the Boston Celtics, with the last two NBA champions facing off.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander came ready to play and more than carried his weight, scoring 33 points and dishing out 8 assists while shooting an insane 83% from the field.

But unfortunately, that wasn't enough for the Thunder to get the W. The Celtics supporting characters, such as Neemias Queta, Luka Garza, Payton Pritchard, and Baylor Scheierman, all stepped up tonight in a major way during big-time stretches, but the same couldn't be said for OKC.

This game didn't give me any longterm cause for concern just being a one game sample size from a Thunder team on the end of a long road trip and ready to finally get back home to their own beds, but at the same time in the playoffs teams are going to dare anyone other than SGA to beat them as we have seen before and if the Thunder have some frequent outings in the post season that looked like tonight from the supporting cast, then OKC could wind up going home early.