Horning: Clearly better, Thunder should roll again

Go ahead and be afraid of Luka Doncic. For that matter, go ahead and be afraid of Kyrie Irving, too. Worry about them, sure, as a team must respect an opponent, just don't go thinking this is where Oklahoma City's first NBA postseason train since the Orlando bubble is bound to stop. On its face, the Western Conference semifinal series that begins at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Oklahoma City would appear to be a skirmish between one reasonably good NBA team and one extensively good NBA team, one of them entering on a huge roll, having won nine straight games, including a sweep over first-round opponent New Orleans — that would be OKC — and the other not so much.