The Thunder just won a close game against a good opponent on the road, something that the team has struggled to do for several weeks. The Clippers played well. The Thunder played better. Beating a good team playing well on the road in March is the sort of thing that a team can hope to build on for success in April and beyond.

If Not Martin...

If there was a downside to the Thunder’s win it is that McKayla might not be impressed, but the rest of us sure are.

Westbrook shot better than the .507 mark five times during the last eight games and shot .471 in one of the other games. It is two poor games bringing down the average from his other six.

Westbrook would love to continue to smack opponents around (metaphorically, of course, Kobe), but he shot .273 the last time Oklahoma City played the Lakers. He has not shot below .368 since and shot above .500 in 10 of the 14 games played between that loss and tonight’s game. While Westbrook tries to continue the play that netted him a total of +62 in the plus-minus column over the last eight games, Martin has to try to snap out of the slump that has him at a total of -1 in those same contests.