Russell Westbrook was up on the sideline encouraging Steven Adams with a chorus of “Keep working him!”. Paul George shot his hands up straight into the air to remind Tim Luwawu-Cabbarot to maintain legal guarding position. Billy Donovan called timeout to get the group together for a quick conversation. There was a lot of teaching to be done on Sunday afternoon for the Thunder at the BOK Center. Gradually, the lessons started to sink in, and Head Coach Billy Donovan’s group got it going. Dennis Schröder took the ball to the corner and burst ahead baseline for a slick finish at the rim. Paul George soared into the air with an outstretched arm to steal a cross-court pass, then pushed it up court for a dribble-up three-pointer. When in the run of play, the Thunder began to look like the Thunder. “We needed to come out of the locker room with energy and focus, and those guys did that,” Donovan said. “With us, the big emphasis is complacency,” George added. “Whoever we’re playing, we have to have a real approach to every game, every opportunity, every possession. I thought we did that. We stuck together. Especially coming out in the second half, we raised the level.” However, in a 113-94 victory over the Atlanta Hawks in the team’s third preseason game of the year, the Thunder (2-1 in preseason) and their opposition were whistled for a combined 63 fouls, as the NBA attempts to demonstrate the new rules and points of emphasis for the upcoming 2018-19 regular season campaign. Read more https://www.nba.com/thunder/preseason-hawks-181007
