Craig Porter Jr goes behind the back to Tristan Thompson who sends a no-look pass to Niang who misses but Okoro grabs the ORB and sends it to Sam Merrill who hits his career high 8th three of the night

Bridges hits the three over Siakam to close the half down 13

Brandon Knight misses the game-winning layup

Tristan Thompson on whether the mountain feels bigger this year with KD involved: "No. Getting KD they lost some other good pieces that they had."

Ja Morant and Desmond Bane combined for 72 points yesterday against the Nets 38 a piece on 2643 from the floor 60 and 1217 from 3 71 38 points is a career high for Desmond Bane who went 811 from deep this game Ja leads the NBA currently in PPG with 343 points per game