The Oklahoma City Thunder are still working on some fine tuning before they take on San Antonio for the regular season opener on October 28th. On Sunday, they faced the Denver Nuggets, who currently sit 4-1 on the preseason.

Oklahoma City Thunder 111 Denver Nuggets 98

The cool thing about this preseason game is that it was streamed online on the Oklahoma City Thunder official website, while Brian Davis and analyst Michael Cage joined Matt Pinto on the radio side for the Thunder Radio Network broadcast.

When it comes to preseason, its not really about wins or losses. It’s about fine tuning what you want to implement during the regular season. The Thunder are showing that they can easily average at least 30 points per quarter this season. We saw early in this preseason game that Russell Westbrook has improved his game on the assist side of the ball having +10 assist twice in the preseason. For the most part, the Thunder have looked like a team destined to contend for the Western Conference averaging 103 points in the preseason.

Getting Kevin Durant back to major game shape is the focus on the minds of the Thunder coaching staff. For most of the preseason, KD and Russ we’re lingering around 20 minutes per game. Tonight, Kevin Durant racked up 32 minutes, while adding in 23 points, shooting 9-14 from the floor. The Thunder as a team are passing the ball at an alarming rate with more than 25 assist for the 3rd game of this young preseason.

Russell Westbrook played 26 minutes tonight and for the second time this preseason gets a double-double in just 3 quarters of play. Although, he struggled shooting the ball early, by the end of the 3rd quarter Westbrook put his stamp on this game with 12 assist, 17 points, and 5 rebounds. Enes Kanter also was a double-double man tonight with 14 points, 10 rebounds in 25 minutes of play. Serge Ibaka also looked decent early in the game raking in a total 32 minutes, shooting 7-8 from the floor with 18 points.

Highlight from the live stream: Roberson steals, delivers to Russ for slam. #ThunderBasketball pic.twitter.com/oMsJNyg9Pg — OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) October 19, 2015

Dion Waiters continues to impress during the Thunder preseason, its clear that he’ll be a likely candidate for the 6th man of the year. He has no doubt embraced his role of coming off the bench and leading this second unit for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Waiters and Kanter have became a 1-2 punch for the Thunder, Steven Adams also chipped in 8 points for the Thunder before a poke in the eye which led to a locker-room visit.

The main takeaway from this Thunder preseason game is five Thunder players in double-digits so far tonight. Among those are Durant, Westbrook, Serge Ibaka, Enes Kanter, and Dion Waiters. It’s clear this team is ready for the regular season. There’s just one more preseason game before the Thunder take on San Antonio in the home opener on October 28th. The Thunder look good, while Denver held it’s own early in the game. However, the Thunder blew the game open in the 4th outscoring Denver 11-1. Denver never recovered as the Thunder knocked off the Nuggets 111-98. The Thunder will take on the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake for its final preseason game Tuesday night.