if Steven Adams kicks klay in the nuts
They stole game 1
lol. not gonna happen. its just not OKC's game.The defense that was there in gms 3-4 has to be there again. That obviously doesn't equate to GS shooting that poorly again but it would decrease the probability of Curry/Thompson having a fire game (though I'm betting they'll both play well on Monday anyway). The energy just has to be really high and that's difficult on the road and especially following a loss like this.
Plus if the game's close they gotta show better poise than what we saw tonight. Golden State's defense was really goddamn good, but Westbrook-Durant had some pretty goddamn bad plays. It's hard to just say "well they should be more careful" because of how great of defense was played, but you'd hope that Westbrook wouldn't turn the ball over four times in like two minutes. Also ESPN had a graphic after the game that showed OKC hit only three threes and had 70 points in the paint. If they play the paint like that again that's really great, but they need at least 8-10 threes between several guys on a respectable percentage if they're gonna win again. That all comes back to running good sets and finding the balance they had earlier in the series.
Other than that it's getting pretty bleak. At the Oracle, GS has the momentum, and OKC made some of the same mistakes they did in the regular season when trying to execute late in games. Makes it that much harder for OKC to just play their own game.
exactlyIf it's one team that can bounce back and win, it's this OKC team. They are random af and might come out looking like all time greats.
Who knows