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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Gregg Popovich implored his San Antonio Spurs to get nasty to take control of the Western Conference finals. The Oklahoma City Thunder may just have to get ugly if they hope to make it a series. The Thunder have struggled to corral a San Antonio offence that is clicking on all cylinders during a 20-game winning streak, the longest any NBA team has been able to maintain into the playoffs. Oklahoma City is in an 0-2 hole as the series shifts to the Chesapeake Energy Arena for Game 3 on Thursday night. Maybe -- just maybe -- the Thunder found something that works while trying to rally from a 22-point, third-quarter deficit in Game 2. They toughened up, turned it into a more physical contest and the NBAs best free-throw shooting team had both teams marching to the foul line as the lead shrank to six. The Spurs were able to close it out for a 120-111 victory. "Were a physical team. We have to play that way," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said Wednesday. "If we play free-flowing basketball, we can beat some teams but were not at our best if were not being physical on the defensive end. "Even on offence, were a physical team. Were aggressive, we set great screens, we set up our screens and we attack the basket, we have dribble penetration and were looking for extra shooters. Thats when were at our best." So far, the Spurs have been at their best more than the Thunder, cranking it up for 39 fourth-quarter points in a come-from-behind Game 1 victory and then shooting 63 per cent from the field and 64 per cent from three-point range while building their biggest lead in Game 2. That had Brooks in a rare position, questioning whether his team was playing its hardest and specifically noting that defence on three-point attempts wasnt good enough. "We have to play with maximum effort every possession and the entire possession. If you dont do that, you give them so many open looks because theyre the best passing team in the game," Brooks said. "They dont hesitate. They make the plays for each other and they make them consistently and they make them quickly and on time. With that being said, you can have great defence and they still make some tough shots." The Thunder held a team meeting to regroup and try to find a way to become the 15th team in NBA history to rally back from a 0-2 deficit in a seven-game series. "Were not down on ourselves," said guard Derek Fisher, a veteran of the Los Angeles Lakers 2004 comeback after losing the first two games to a Spurs team also riding a double-digit win streak. "Were obviously disappointed. We dont like to lose," he said. "But we still feel good about our ability to follow our game plan, do some of the things we need to do, make some adjustments and give ourselves a chance to win Game 3." It starts with duplicating the rugged approach that disrupted the Spurs rhythm in Game 2. It materialized after Brooks had his players foul backup centre Tiago Splitter intentionally to send a poor free-throw shooter to the line. Oklahoma City didnt make up any ground while sending Splitter to the line repeatedly, but the whistles kept sounding afterward and the Thunder showed some fight. "They started to attack, attack, attack -- put your head down and try to draw fouls -- and it worked for them in that fourth quarter," Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said. "And defensively they were everywhere. I dont know if we got a little tired or we kind of stopped playing a little, but they were successful in doing what they wanted in the fourth. We just made a couple of tough shots that gave us some fresh air." Brooks also questioned how much of the comeback to claim credit for, and how much was San Antonio relaxing after building such a commanding lead. "If we dont go down 20 and we have that spurt, were in the lead," Thunder guard James Harden said. "So, we just cant allow a lack of focus." He said there were too many "mini-spurts" where Oklahoma Citys lapses let the lead keep ballooning out of control. No matter what style they try to play, the Thunder already know they cant get by with that lack of mental discipline. "You can talk about Xs and Os and adjustments and rotations and all those things but at the end of the day, sometimes you just have to want it," Fisher said. "How you define that, how you lay that out as a game plan, I dont know. But when you want it bad enough, you figure it out. "We have to want it bad enough come tomorrow night in order to figure it out." Wholesale Jerseys China . Arsenal failed to take full advantage of its main rivals stumbles on Saturday as substitute Gerard Deulofeu levelled with a hard shot from a tight angle in the 84th minute to give Everton a deserved point. Ahead of a crucial fortnight that will see them play against Napoli in the Champions League, Manchester City and Chelsea, Arsenal leads by five points ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea. Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping . The team announced on Wednesday that Brodeur would be out rehabbing his injured right shoulder but will not need surgery. http://www.wholesalejerseyscc.us.com/ . And they did it against one of the leagues best teams. Deron Williams scored 29 points, Kris Humphries had 24 points and 18 rebounds, and New Jersey beat the Chicago Bulls 97-85 Saturday to snap an eight-game losing streak. Wholesale NFL Jersey . The 26-year-old signed an eight-year extension worth $64 million on the eve of the regular season before posting a bountiful nine goals and 18 points in 14 games.SUNRISE, Fla. - Gustav Nyquist scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, helping lift the Detroit Red Wings over the Florida Panthers 3-1 on Thursday night. Brian Lashoff and Daniel Alfredsson also scored and Jimmy Howard made 23 saves as the Red Wings ended a four-game road losing streak. Scottie Upshall scored and Tim Thomas stopped 30 shots for Florida, which has lost four of its last five. Detroit took a 2-1 lead when Nyquist grabbed a rebound in the slot in the Red Wings zone, brought it along the left boards and beat Thomas high on the stick side at 13:22. Nyquist has nine goals in his last nine games. Lashoff added an empty-net goal with 20 seconds left. Florida took a 1-0 lead in the first despite a slow start. Upshall came out of the penalty box just in timee to take a pass from Tomas Kopecky behind the Red Wings defence.dddddddddddd His wrist shot from the slot went five-hole on Howard with 26 seconds left in the period — only the second shot of the game for Florida. The Red Wings tied it at 1 on Alfredssons power-play goal at 6:30 of the second when he found a loose puck in front and swept it past Thomass stick. The Panthers, coming off a season-high 48 shots Tuesday against Toronto, managed only two shots in the first, a season-low for a period. At the end of the second, they were outshot 23-8. NOTES: Red Wings centre Pavel Datsyuk, who missed the past 14 games with a lower-body injury, returned to the lineup Thursday. . D Jakub Kindl missed the game with a lower-body injury. . Kopecky recorded his 100th NHL assist. cheap jerseys wholesale jerseys from china ' ' '
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