Being able to compete and winning are 2 different things.

Losing by 8 at GS when CLE lost by 6 (at GS) and 20+ (in CLE) and SA by 20+ (No Duncan mind you), we're at least comparable in terms of the GS matchup.

I'm surprised nobody brought up that Kanter did well. Double double and had a huge hand in shifting the momentum back to OKC at the end.

OKC matches up against SA really well when everybody is healthy.