How do you solve a problem like Russell Westbrook? If you’re the Toronto Raptors, you game plan, you watch footage, you do everything you can to slow, stop, or otherwise contain the most destructive force in the NBA today. All that, and two days of practice work, and you still fail — badly. The Raptors got crushed tonight by the Oklahoma City Thunder, 123-102. It was not even as close as that.
“That exhibition of basketball was unacceptable,” said coach Dwane Casey. “I want to apologize to our fans, to everybody, for the way we played tonight.