The Thunder just found their SECRET WEAPON...

This team, if they can handle San Antonio and do it consistently like they did last night, the rest of the league is going to have no idea how to handle this Thunder team.

Adai Mara, his NBA debut was shorter than what it probably could have been, getting him in some limited minutes, just 11 minutes, but he was plus 9 in those 11 minutes.

It wasn't necessarily about the minutes played.

It wasn't necessarily about him putting up 15, 20, 25 points, having a dozen rebounds, having a bunch of assists.

It was what he did in the minutes that he was on the floor that led to the ultimate winning combination in this 116-104 victory.

The Thunder had it from the MVP last night, showing again why he's the best player in the world.

32 points, he was 13-27 from the field.

The Thunder had an incredible game from Jared McCain.

Alex Caruso was awesome off the bench.

Chet Holmgren rose to the occasion.

But Adai Mara and his performance in this game may have been the single most important piece of the entire thing.

Especially when you consider some of the plays that he made.

Which got into Wimby's head so bad that after the game, he said to the post-game media that he might be overthinking things.

And he had a January 13th tour date last night.

He was 1 of 13 from the field.

He started 0 of 12, which was by far his worst game that he has ever had in the NBA.

And it was Chad Holmgren who was guarding him a lot of the night, but it was Adai Mara that had him just completely incensed at that point in the game where he was mumbling to himself.

For a majority of the 11 minutes that the Thunder Rookie was on the floor, there was nowhere to hide.

It was one-on-one, mano-a-mano, with the league's unicorn.

With the man who makes everybody look like a tiny, small, minuscule version of themselves when they are faced with Victor Wimbinyama.

But that's not what happened with Adai Mara.

meeting Wimby at the rim, rejecting him for his first career NBA block, and then running the length of the floor, getting down there into the interior, and finishing a lob on the other end.

I mean, it was stuff of poetry, and the Thunder, I mean, you cannot be more thrilled by what you have on your hands.

That stretch that I just showed you, Mark Dagnall coining it, one of the critical stretches of the game when the Thunder were able to really impose their will, grind down San Antonio, and run away with a game that they led by as much as 26 points, and they were ahead for 92% of this game, just over 44 minutes.

And the overall role for Adai Mara, he's going to have a chance to show why he deserves more and more and more and more minutes.

This team, if they can handle San Antonio and do it consistently like they did last night, the rest of the league is going to have no idea how to handle this Thunder team.

Adai Mara, his NBA debut was shorter than what it probably could have been, getting him in some limited minutes, just 11 minutes, but he was plus 9 in those 11 minutes.

It wasn't necessarily about the minutes played.

It wasn't necessarily about him putting up 15, 20, 25 points, having a dozen rebounds, having a bunch of assists.

It was what he did in the minutes that he was on the floor that led to the ultimate winning combination in this 116-104 victory.

The Thunder had it from the MVP last night, showing again why he's the best player in the world.

32 points, he was 13-27 from the field.

The Thunder had an incredible game from Jared McCain.

Alex Caruso was awesome off the bench.

Chet Holmgren rose to the occasion.

But Adai Mara and his performance in this game may have been the single most important piece of the entire thing.

Especially when you consider some of the plays that he made.

Which got into Wimby's head so bad that after the game, he said to the post-game media that he might be overthinking things.

And he had a January 13th tour date last night.

He was 1 of 13 from the field.

He started 0 of 12, which was by far his worst game that he has ever had in the NBA.

And it was Chad Holmgren who was guarding him a lot of the night, but it was Adai Mara that had him just completely incensed at that point in the game where he was mumbling to himself.

For a majority of the 11 minutes that the Thunder Rookie was on the floor, there was nowhere to hide.

It was one-on-one, mano-a-mano, with the league's unicorn.

With the man who makes everybody look like a tiny, small, minuscule version of themselves when they are faced with Victor Wimbinyama.

But that's not what happened with Adai Mara.

meeting Wimby at the rim, rejecting him for his first career NBA block, and then running the length of the floor, getting down there into the interior, and finishing a lob on the other end.

I mean, it was stuff of poetry, and the Thunder, I mean, you cannot be more thrilled by what you have on your hands.

That stretch that I just showed you, Mark Dagnall coining it, one of the critical stretches of the game when the Thunder were able to really impose their will, grind down San Antonio, and run away with a game that they led by as much as 26 points, and they were ahead for 92% of this game, just over 44 minutes.

And the overall role for Adai Mara, he's going to have a chance to show why he deserves more and more and more and more minutes.