The next morning, when the first rays of sunlight streamed through the window into the room, Goodwin was awakened by wave after wave of ringing from his phone.
Rubbing his sleepy eyes, he picked up his phone and saw messages and missed calls flashing across the screen from friends in the basketball world.
Every one of them was congratulating him on taking the opening game of the Finals the night before.
Even more than 90 percent of the league's players were predicting that the Boston Celtics would win.
After all, against a team this strong, it was hard for anyone not to favor them.
Even so, people still could not imagine how the Oklahoma City Thunder were supposed to defeat the Boston Celtics led by Goodwin.
Although the Thunder Big Three could not be underestimated, the problems they faced were equally obvious.
The first game showed that Kevin Durant had been off his game, making just 5 of 17 shots. He went 1-for-5 from three, hit 7 of 8 free throws, and finished with 18 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, and 1 steal.
Russell Westbrook had also been fairly ordinary, making 7 of 20 shots, going 2-for-4 from three and 4-for-6 at the line, for 20 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists, 1 steal, and 1 block.
James Harden, meanwhile, had been the Thunder's bright spot. He made 11 of 24 shots, went 2-for-6 from three and 6-for-7 at the free-throw line, scoring a team-high 30 points while adding 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks.
In that game, only James Harden had performed reasonably well, while Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook had been heavily restricted by the Boston Celtics' defensive strategy.
And those were only their problems on offense. On the defensive end, they had been unable to