Thunder top Spurs 116-104

AwayOklahoma City Thunder116

Final
Oct 20

HomeSan Antonio Spurs104

Oklahoma City Thunder (1-0) beat San Antonio Spurs (0-1) 116-104 on the road on Tuesday, October 20. The 12-point margin reflected a comfortable advantage.

Thunder led by 21 at halftime. The decisive stretch came in the second quarter, which Thunder won 31-16.

Under the surface, Spurs' reserves outscored the other bench 45-29, Thunder shot 45.3% from the field to 39.1% for Spurs, and Thunder made 14 threes to 10.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led Thunder with 32 points on 13-of-27 shooting. For Spurs, Stephon Castle had 24 points on 9-of-20 shooting, 7 rebounds.

Victor Wembanyama (12 pts, 13 reb, 3 ast) put together a double-double.

By our ratings this was an upset: Thunder had about a 34% chance before tip-off.

Over the last 15 meetings in our records, San Antonio Spurs lead 9-6.

Written by Tip Off Live from box score data supplied by BALLDONTLIE. Ratings and probabilities are our own model estimates.

Scoring by quarter

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Oklahoma City Thunder	34	31	28	23	116
San Antonio Spurs	28	16	36	24	104

Oklahoma City Thunder

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/−
Shai Gilgeous-AlexanderG	36	32	5	4	2	2	2	2	13-27	3-7	3-4	+6
Chet HolmgrenC-F	30	14	7	2	0	4	1	0	3-8	0-1	8-8	-1
Jalen WilliamsG-F	29	12	7	2	1	1	0	4	5-16	1-2	1-2	-5
Alex CarusoG	24	9	7	1	2	0	0	1	3-4	2-2	1-2	+16
Jared McCainG	22	20	2	2	1	0	2	1	7-9	6-8	0-0	+20
Ajay MitchellG	22	4	5	6	0	0	1	3	2-8	0-1	0-0	+12
Cason WallaceG	19	6	3	2	1	0	1	3	3-8	0-4	0-0	-5
Isaiah HartensteinF-C	17	4	3	3	1	1	2	5	2-4	0-0	0-0	+6
Jaylin WilliamsF	16	5	4	1	0	0	1	1	1-6	1-5	2-2	-4
Aday MaraC	11	7	2	1	0	1	1	1	3-4	0-0	1-2	+9
Kenrich WilliamsG-F	7	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	1-1	1-1	0-0	+6
Brooks BarnhizerF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0
Bennett StirtzG	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0
Team		116	47	24	8	9	11	22	43-95	14-31	16-20

San Antonio Spurs

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/−
Victor WembanyamaF-C	34	12	13	3	1	6	4	3	1-13	0-4	10-12	-2
Dylan HarperG	31	18	7	5	0	0	2	5	7-17	0-2	4-4	-6
De'Aaron FoxG	31	14	7	7	1	0	2	1	6-9	0-2	2-3	+1
Devin VassellG-F	30	7	3	1	0	0	0	4	2-8	1-4	2-2	+8
Julian ChampagnieF	30	8	3	1	2	3	0	3	3-8	2-6	0-0	-24
Stephon CastleG	28	24	7	1	0	0	3	4	9-20	5-12	1-1	-2
Keldon JohnsonF	19	10	4	1	2	0	2	2	4-8	1-2	1-1	-12
Luke KornetF-C	12	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2-2	0-0	0-0	-10
Harrison BarnesF	9	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	1-1	1-1	0-0	-7
Carter BryantF	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0-3	0-3	0-0	-6
Maliq BrownF	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0
Ja'Kobi GillespieG	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1-2	0-1	0-0	0
David JonesF	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-1	0-0	2-2	0
Tarris Reed Jr.C	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0
Jordan McLaughlinG	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0
Team		104	45	21	6	11	13	24	36-92	10-37	22-25

Team comparison

OKCSAS

Field goal %45.3%

39.1%

Three-point %45.2%

27%

Free throw %80%

88%

Rebounds47

Assists24

Steals8

Blocks9

Turnovers11

Bench points29

Recent meetings

May 30: SAS 111, OKC 103 (playoffs)
May 28: OKC 91, SAS 118 (playoffs)
May 26: SAS 114, OKC 127 (playoffs)
May 24: OKC 82, SAS 103 (playoffs)
May 22: OKC 123, SAS 108 (playoffs)