Earlier this season, former Thunder forward Nick Collison said this year’s team had an “edge” that wasn’t there a much in 2017-18. That mental toughness and swagger waxed and waned a bit in the second half of the season, but there’s no time like the present, down 0-2 in a tough playoff series with the Portland Trail Blazers, to put it on display.
Brimming with just the right level of emotion under the surface, the Thunder comes into Friday’s Game 3 with a little bit of anger and a whole lot of concentrated motivation to get back into this series.