Oklahoma City Thunder showed flexibility all season.
Thunder left games only twice in the normal season, and the best seed in the Western Conference playoffs never lost more than two competitions.
Nevertheless, Oklahoma City is faced with Denver Nuggets, who visited the Western Conference semi-final series on Wednesday, which requires recoil to open the second round after 121-119 home loss on Monday.
Nuggets and Denver, followed by nine less than three minutes before assembling Nikola Jokic, were less than four seconds.
“We know how this is about how we react,” Oklahoma City star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said. He said. “There's nothing we can do about what's happening, so there's no point in lowering or upset about it.
Thunder coach Mark Daigneault did not expect his team to continue to evaporate competitors after sweeping the first round series against Memphis.
“We must embrace the struggle of the playoffs, embrace the distress of the playoffs.” He said. “Playoffs are a mountain to climb, so it won't be easy for anyone.
“We took some kind in the first round. It was a challenging in the games, but we checked the series all time.
Oklahoma City, Jokic'e all kinds of defense appearances, and during the extension of the superstar annoying the successful. However, Jokic finished strongly while delivering 42 points and 22 rebounds.
“The best player in the world,” Nuggets said 'Russell Westbrook. “Plan and simple.”
There was a time he played for Thunder, when he might belong to Westbrook.
Westbrook received a great applause when he checked the game on Monday for the first time, and then when he found Gordon for Aquarius who won Gordon, Thunder left his fans quietly.
“They gave me a chance and believed me when I was a young, young man, West Westbrook said from Thunder. “But the reason they love me is my competitive nature, my competitive soul.”
Westbrook and Nuggets as a whole have recently shown most of them. They found their beds after firing at the end of the season, the head coach Michael found their beds.
On Monday, they returned from a 13 -point deficit in the fourth quarter and defeated the team with the best record of the NBA in the normal season.
Denver will try to accelerate with games 3 and 4 in Colorado this week.
“We didn't want to miss the moment. We didn't want to miss the opportunity,” Gordon said. “I am happy to show our Grit, but we are not satisfied.”
And Oklahoma City will try to regain the acceleration it has built throughout the season.
Gilgeous-Alexander, “We did not expect all our run to be sunlight and rainbow.” He said.
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