Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook didn’t play their best in the 4th quarter of Game 6, they have game 7 to right those wrongs.
Their teammates were right in the fact they did tighten up in Game 6, but unlike the Warriors the Thunder other players didn’t help get them out of that funk.
Here is what Chris Broussard said he was hearing in the Thunder locker room.
“As far as their own stars, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, the Thunder felt like they were playing to protect the lead in the fourth quarter, whereas the Warriors were playing to win. You know, they got tentative. They weren’t as aggressive as they needed to be, and they felt like that’s why they made a lot of the turnovers they made and missed a lot of the shots they made because they were just trying to hold on versus just continuing to play the way they played to get the lead.”
Game 7s are usually blow outs or come down to the wire, we will see where the Thunder are mentally very early on in the game.