OKC Thunder Film Room: Breaking down game two loss

OKC Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images) (Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images)
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As I said, despite the game one outburst, you can not play Kanter.

Here is one of the best plays you will see because it is a selfish play from Steven Adams for once. On a pick and roll, Kanter stays with the ball handler, in this case, Paul George tosses it down low to Adams. Adams fights in the paint and goes up strong over multiple white shirts while Terrance Ferguson sits all alone wide open in the corner from deep.

Steven Adams seals off and posts up Kanter and gets an easy bucket. Do you want to know why? Because you can’t play Kanter.

This play below is what every OKC Thunder fan longed for when thinking about this matchup, a free rolling Steven Adams finished off an alley oop slam fed to him by Russell Westbrook.

This matchup clearly belongs to Steven Adams who turned in 16 points on 87 percent from the floor with nine rebounds and a steal. Plus, he set an incredibly hard screen on Damian Lillard.

The OKC Thunder held Enes Kanter to a normal playoff line from him. He earned six points and only hauled down five rebounds all of which were defensive, and was hit with four fouls. His game one was an outlier as anyone should have been able to predict, but a lot of media members fell for the trap.