A promising start devolved into a familiar nightmare on Friday for the Dallas Mavericks (8-16) in a 132-111 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder (22-1) at Paycom Center. The Thunder defense clamped down on both Cooper Flagg and Anthony Davis to extend Oklahoma City’s win streak to 14 and put the kibosh on the Mavs’ three-game win streak in the process.

Friday night’s game against the Thunder was always going to be a different kind of test, but Dallas failed to learn from their second-quarter mistakes and folded in the third as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander shot 10-of-12 from the field and took the fourth quarter off while the Thunder rolled over a Mavs team that was just never equipped to keep up.

Here are four stats that paint the picture of a loss that was, in retrospect, inevitable.

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