Advancing to another best-of-seven in the Western conference finals ... for which Game 1 was scheduled roughly 48 hours later. The point being, you could forgive anyone on the Thunder for feeling pretty exhausted ahead of their WCF run vs.

This is why everyone loves a Game 7, but it's also a lot of pressure. After the game, Thunder guard Alex Caruso told reporters that it is beyond normal to feel the stakes. "If you don't feel anything leading up to it, you're probably like a serial killer, you know?" Caruso said. "You need to be checked out."