NBA 2017-18 Season: Top 5 Teams in Isolation Scoring

#3 Oklahoma City Thunder - 9.6 points per game

Paul George, Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony

Surely, if you watched ample OKC basketball last season, you'd know that they don't share the ball as much as their competition.

Undoubtedly a Westbrook-centric offense, the average touches by the former MVP is 96 per game, 40 more than the second most of Paul George's. And we all know Brodie loves to take it on face-to-face, ending in a thunderous jam or a slick jumper.

In the season before the last, Oklahoma City Thunder were 15th in the league in iso plays - about 12 per 100 possessions. Clearly, they have repaired their isolation plays enough to make it to the 3rd spot this time around, but it is largely because of the fact that they had 3 elite iso experts now, sharing the floor with each other, each requiring the island as much as the other.

The initial six weeks of play were enough to sprout major doubts, solidifying the belief that this Big-3 would fight for personal space on the hardwood more than they would, collectively, for the team. Although they never had a legit shooter around, but it wouldn't have hurt to move the ball around and try to find one.