The Thunder have played 66 games this season with over 212.5 points scored, while the Suns have had 64 games exceeding that total. The two teams average a combined 231.5 points per game, which is 19.0 points more than the game's total of 212.5.
"It's the same as our sport: if you do a mistake, you cannot change it. I've always been a guy who sees opportunities, who sees the positives. I'm going to try to deliver my best point of view on each game, player, the tournament."
'Prediction is too pompous a word for it. What we are doing here is called guessing. And whatever you do guess will be less fanciful and ridiculous than what actually happens.'
The highlight of that, of course, is the 12-team College Football Playoff, now in its second year. The five highest-ranked conference champions, plus the next seven highest-ranked teams, will make the field.
In the end it took a 54th-minute try by the scrum-half Alex Mitchell to save his side's blushes in an encounter that will sit uneasily with the management at this delicate stage of the trip.
Getting Monday's fixtures underway sat in bronze medal position and dreaming of the chance to mount a genuine European charge, the Bohs have won five of their last seven appearances.