The reigning champs suffered a huge loss at home against the young Hornets squad
After a stunning 124-97 blowout loss against the Charlotte Hornets right in front of their home crowd, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander offered intriguing words about whether he and the OKC Thunder feel added pressure from teams looking to make a statement against them as the defending champions.
"Not really," he said. "It doesn’t feel different than it did last year. Teams are good, players are good in the NBA. The league and players are always getting better, just like how us as a group have gotten better, and you’ve got to grow with that or you get left behind.
"It doesn’t feel any different than it has before. We’ve just had a bad string of games as of late."
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