Intro:

Post-game reaction after the Oklahoma City Thunder went on to a 103-94 victory over the Houston Rockets on Friday, sending the Thunder to the second round of the playoffs for the third straight season.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English): Scott Brooks, Oklahoma City Thunder Head Coach:
"Last game, we wanted to win that last game. We wanted to win on our home court. I love Houston, I have friends and family, but I did not want to come back here. I felt that that was part of the emotions of that game. We wanted to win that game and we were playing so ... When you shoot the ball, you got to shoot it with freedom and we didn't have that. When we started missing shots, that arm became a heavy arm. And Kevin got frustrated, you very rarely see Kevin get frustrated. He got frustrated that game, cause he wanted to win that game so badly for our fans. But that is part of growing, and developing as a team. His focus and his determination, he did what he was suppose to do. He is suppose to lead us and he did. He lead us past the first round, now we are on to the second round."

SOUNDBITE (English): Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder Forward:
"I loved our energy from the moment we got on the plane yesterday. I could tell there was something good about us. I couldn't tell if we were going to win the game for sure, but I could just tell something was different about us. We let game 5 go, and just knew it would a tough, hostile environment but we just stayed together. And this morning's shootaround was the same way, we were all focused, we just wanted to come out and take their first punch and weather the storm and we did that in the first and the third."

SOUNDBITE (English): Kevin McHale, Houston Rockets Head Coach:
"For us, which has happened off and on all year too the ball gets a little sticky. We just have to keep trusting and moving. I thought our guys got a little tired, we went to the bench a couple times. Nobody wants to hear about who is not playing, we had enough guys out there. I thought we had enough looks, I thought we did a good enough job for the most part to put ourselves in a position to win that game, our turnovers really hurt us and our lack of movement."