Christmas followed Fair's 3-pointer with an alley-oop dunk off a nice feed from Carter-Williams and James Southerland's 3-pointer from the wing made it 30-11 with less than 6 minutes to go in the half.
Christmas hit a foul-line jumper at the shot-clock buzzer after corraling the rebound of a miss by Michael Carter-Williams and Fair followed with a dunk off a steal by Carter-Williams.
Many of the same people jumped to their feet and cheered when James threw down a thunderous dunk off an alley-oop pass from Norris Cole late in the third quarter.
Fair himself had matched Montana's scoring total at that point and the deficit only got bigger at the half when Triche hit a floater and then scored on a breakaway dunk off a block by Baye Moussa Keita to make it 38-15 at the break.
Norris Cole lobbed one off the glass to James for a dunk and an 83-70 lead, Allen made another 3-pointer on the next possession, James set up Andersen for an alley-oop dunk as half the arena roared in delight as the reigning champions pushed the margin to 18.