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OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Oklahoma City Thunder adding Jared McCain from a deal<\/a> with the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> is a gift that keeps on giving for the defending champions, as the second-year guard helped close out a 116-103 win against the Minnesota Timberwolves. McCain connected on his fourth and fifth 3-pointer in a two-minute span that pushed the Thunder\u2019s lead to 15 in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

McCain finished with 15 points<\/a> on 5-for-10 shooting, including five threes, and one steal. For a deep Thunder team with three players who finished with 15+ points in Sunday\u2019s win, Isaiah Joe\u2019s 20 points (five threes) led the second unit, and Alex Caruso added 17 points, as the three combined for a whopping 52 points, including 11 threes. It was enough support to keep the Timberwolves at bay.<\/p>\n

Then, Thunder All-Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander squeezed out his 128th consecutive<\/a> 20+ point game, scoring a 3-point play in the final minutes that pushed him to 20 points. He also finished with 10 assists, two steals, and one block. The Thunder has won eight consecutive games, capped by hard-fought wins during its four-game home stand against the Timberwolves, the Boston Celtics, and the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n

What Mark Daigneault has learned about Thunder\u2019s Jared McCain\"ThunderAlonzo Adams-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault continues to learn about Jared McCain amid the second-year guard\u2019s first month with his new team. For Daigneault, it\u2019s McCain\u2019s offense that stands out most<\/a>, as he fits in seamlessly with his new Thunder teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis ability to shoot. He\u2019s a guy that you have to race off the line, which opens up some of those drives. I didn\u2019t know his game that well, especially that part of his game \u2014 those mid-range plays show off his strength,\u201d Daigneault said. \u201cHe gets going downhill, and he\u2019s able to absorb contact and rise up and shoot a balanced rhythm shot, which is harder to do than it looks. He makes it look easier than it is. So, he\u2019s done a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCain has made at least one 3-pointer in 14 of his first 15 appearances for the Thunder. He\u2019s averaged 11.2 points on 41.2\/39.5\/89.4 percent shoot splits, and 2.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Oklahoma City Thunder adding Jared McCain from a deal with the Philadelphia 76ers is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,1255,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,207,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-660111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jared-mccain","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-oklahoma","12":"tag-oklahoma-city","13":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","14":"tag-oklahomacity","15":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","16":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","17":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116235396260311654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}