This is an excerpt from Berry Tramel's Friday ScissorTales. Read it in its entirety here.”
Game 1: Thunder has control, lets go of the rope in the final three minutes, loses a big lead and gets beat on a last-second shot.
Game 2: Thunder wins in a blowout.
Game 3: Tie game down the stretch, but the Thunder stumbles, plays poorly and loses by nine.
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The NBA Finals? Yes. But also the West semifinals against Denver. The Thunder eerily has followed the same script against the Pacers as against the Nuggets.
“Yeah, it feels a lot similar,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “The teams are very different. You can’t kind of compare the situations too much. But at the end of the day, we have to be who we are and who we’ve been all season. I think we got back to that in that series. If we want to give ourselves a chance in this series, it has to be the same thing.”
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The Thunder won three of the last four against the Nuggets, including scintillating wins in Game 4 (92-87 in Denver) and Game 5 (112-105 in OKC).
“We stay pretty emotionally even in all of the different experiences,” Mark Daigneault said. “You really see that when we win. I think if you’re going to get high on the wins, then the natural opposite of that is to get low on the losses. This team doesn’t really swing violently between those two things. Never has.”
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