The Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets are squaring off in a do-or-die Game 7 on Sunday afternoon. The top-seeded Thunder are facing elimination for the first time in these playoffs. The Nuggets are 2-0 in elimination games,

For all the misconstruing that happens in these NBA Playoffs, Game 7 against the Denver Nuggets brought out the OKC Thunder team Mark Daigneault recognized.

Those points didn’t come because the Thunder were bombing away from 3 — they shot 30.8% on the night — but in the paint, where the Thunder scored 64 points before both coach