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Thunder's close losses have common threads

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Seven of the Thunder's past 11 games have been clutch games, defined by NBA.com as a game in which the point differential is five or less in the last five minutes. With a 113-109 loss at Houston Tuesday OKC fell to 2-5 in those games.

“The rebounding, some of the turnovers, we could have probably executed a little better on certain occasions in the second half,” Thunder coach Billy Donovan said Tuesday, “those were the things I thought were impactful.”

The Thunder has played 17 clutch games this season, per NBA.com, and ranks No. 28 in the league with a .