Harden had his way with a porous Thunder defense, as Houston lit up Oklahoma City, 118-87 on Sunday.
But with the Rockets and Thunder facing off the first round of the NBA Western Conference playoffs on Sunday, Westbrook made it clear that his friendship with Harden will be non-existent on the court.
Game 2 of the seven-game series is Wednesday in Houston. By the close of the second, Harden had discovered his rhythm, pouring in 20 points by the intermission for a 59-54 lead. Harden rounded his night out with nine assists, seven rebounds, and three steals.
Beverley scored a playoff career-high 21 points and added 10 rebounds, steering the ship until Harden got untracked. During the 2016-17 regular season, Roberson was even worse on 3-pointers (25 percent) while averaging 6.6 points. We got a game here tonight. The Beard was unstoppable against his former team, slicing and dicing the Thunder up for 37 points on 13-of-28 shooting.
Eric Gordon is a candidate for Sixth Man of the Year after averaging 16.2 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists off the bench in his first season in Houston after five years with New Orleans.
"We've got to do a better job starting with myself - got to do a better job of taking care of the basketball and making some shots", Westbrook said.
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Houston Rockets' Patrick Beverley gave the Toyota Center a scare when Steven Adams flattened him on a screen.
Andre Roberson played solid on both ends of the floor and finished with 18 points and seven rebounds, but Westbrook and Grant were the only other Thunder players to score in double figures.
Houston scored the next nine points, capped by consecutive 3-pointers by Beverley to make it 73-64 midway through the period. It's good for the National Basketball Association.
D'Antoni has been drilling those numbers into his players' heads for weeks, bringing it up repeatedly as soon as it looked like the Rockets would draw the Thunder in the first round. Their relationship goes back way before their Oklahoma City days, when they were teammates from 2009 to '12.
After the game, Beverley said he thought it was a clean pick and had no issue with Adams.
It just wasn't the Thunder's night in terms of shooting from two of their biggest stars.
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