“Everybody left their soul out on the court. “We laid it all out there,” a somber Durant said. Kevin Durant shot 10-for-19 for a total of 27 points, his lowest-scoring Game 7 performance ever. Of those, less than half came back to win Game 7.īut more than that, Russell Westbrook was off his game, shooting for 7-for-21 from the floor on Monday night. There have been 36 teams to lose Game 6 at home with a 3-2 series lead. Top-seeded teams were 28-3 in home Game 7s, according to ESPN. The history was not in the Thunder’s favor. It might be that it was a little bit of both. The series outcome evoked the glass-half-full expression: were the Warriors the only team good enough to pull off such a comeback – or were the Thunder the only team combustable enough to lose from such a winning position? We were right there every step of the way with them, and this was a record-setting team and world champions. “They do things like make big shots and do some of those things. “This may be the greatest team in the history of the NBA,” Thunder coach Billy Donovan said afterward.
