Well that was a nut punch.
After seizing momentum by winning Games 3 and 4, the Thunder lost Game 5 by James Harden’s season scoring average.
While all the pregame buzz centered around Russell Westbrook’s return to face the team that will be building a statue in his image shortly after his retirement, the Brodie wasn’t the reason why the Rockets rocked the baby all day before swaddling the Thunder to sleep.
While all the postgame buzz centered around the Dennis Schroder “did he or didn’t he” arm swing into PJ Tucker’s baby makers, followed by Tucker going Zinedine Zidane on an unsuspecting Schroder, followed by the refs tossing Tucker and Schroder, OKC’s Sixth Man of the Year absence, while massive, wasn’t the reason why the Rockets gave OKC fans bizarro world 2017 flashbacks.