Blake Dunks! Also, Thunder Lose Big

It’s All Their Fault! The Oklahoma City Thunder have lost twice in 13 games. Each time, it was easy to find scapegoats. Step 1: look at the box score. Step 2: blame everyone not named Kevin or Russell. Durant and Westbrook each rose to the challenge of tonight’s intense battle with the host Los Angeles Clippers. They combined for 67 points on 58 percent field goal shooting and led repeated runs. Time and again, they sustained stretches of brilliance, undone by offensively-limited teammates. James Harden (1-5 three-point tries) could never hit the momentum-changing triple. Nazr Mohammed was too overwhelmed defensively to provide some of his signature bucket-getting. Daequan Cook’s four three-pointers looked good in the scorebook, but most of them came with his team trailing by 20. Harden had his worst game in two weeks and seemed uncomfortable in an unaccustomed starting role (thanks to Thabo Sefalosha’s foot injury). In the normal OKC rotation, he enters at t...