![]() “It’s part of the job and it’s something that we love to do, and you can’t complain,” Westbrook said. 29 and then beat Minnesota, San Antonio and Utah at home. “I have a lot of respect for the players, one for the way they take care of themselves physically, mentally and emotionally, and two, for the way they prepare every day because every 48 hours it’s a new team, a new situation and a new environment.”įor the Thunder, the game will be their fourth so far in December and the fifth in eight days. “We played a lot of games in Denver, I don’t think this will be much different,” Donovan said. ![]() Thunder coach Billy Donovan said that he’s not planning to alter their substitutions pattern to adjust better to the altitude and that the team will visit the Arena Ciudad de Mexico on Thursday morning to try to get acclimated. “We’ll try to adjust but I think it will be fine, we are all in the same category, we are going to be tired and they are going to be tired.” “You have to be ready to go, it’s kind of the equivalent to playing on the second game of a back-to-back in my opinion,” Andre Robertson said. The NFL champions New England Patriots did just that and arrived a few hours prior to a game against the Oakland Raiders on Nov. Professional teams try different approaches to avoid the effects of the altitude on the body and usually, arriving as close to a game as possible is regarded as the way to go. Sitting at 7,350 feet above sea level, Mexico’s capital is at a far higher elevation than Denver – the NBA’s highest venue at 5,280 feet. “If you are in shape then you are in shape and if you are not then you are not.” “I don’t know nothing about the altitude, to be honest, I just play,” Westbrook said at the team’s hotel in an upscale part of town. The NBA MVP and the Thunder arrived on Wednesday night South of the Border to face the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA’s 25th game in Mexico more concerned about dinner than the altitude. But not Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder. MEXICO CITY - Professional athletes playing in Mexico City are always aware of the invisible opponent that is the altitude. * Tonight on NBA League Pass: Thunder vs.
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