How win could be sign of things to come

Paul George buried the deep shot from the wing, and as Russell Westbrook urged Thunder fans to get louder and the roof nearly came right off The Peake, George turned ever so slightly to the Warriors bench and did the shoulder shimmy shake.

That’s a Golden State move.

But not Wednesday. On this night, Oklahoma City took whatever it wanted. The celebrations. The mojo. The fun. The win, too. Thunder 108, Warriors 91.

In a season that hasn’t started as anyone in Thunder blue expected, this might be the most unexpected result of them all. The losses to dreadful teams were unexpected. The losses in games which the Thunder led big were, too.

But beating the Warriors by two-plus touchdowns?

Didn’t see that coming. But now comes an even bigger unknown— will this be a turning point? Will OKC be able to replicate the focus it had for four quarters against Golden State? Will it have the same attention to detail against Detroit on Friday and Dallas on Saturday and Orlando on Wednesday and every future opponent on the schedule no matter how good?

Or will this be a tease? It’s up to the guys in the short pants.

“Hopefully, this is something we can build off of,” Thunder coach Billy Donovan said. “You see the possibilities in the first half of games, but you don’t see if for the whole 48 minutes.

“I thought the effort,