Alexander seemed to want — no, need — one of his many potentially heartbreaking jumpshots to fall late Wednesday.  Because without Jalen Williams, the soul to Gilgeous-Alexander’s heart, one of two viable on-ball creators on a team with bodies dropping like flies,

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points, Jalen Williams exited late in the first half with a right eye injury and the Oklahoma City Thunder held off the Curry-less Golden State Warriors 105-101.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made his team's only two field goals of the final 8:25 to cap a 35-point performance, Isaiah Hartenstein recorded a third consecutive double-double and the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder outlasted the Stephen Curry-less Golden State Warriors 105-101 in San Francisco on Wednesday night.