OKLAHOMA CITY -- Paul George turned the corner and a runway to the rim had opened. There was a little more than a minute left in Sunday's contest, the Milwaukee Bucks had closed the margin to four and the Oklahoma City Thunder were in desperate need of a bucket.

But what appeared to be an open lane soon had a near 7-foot Greek obstacle waiting. Giannis Antetokounmpo took a couple of giant steps over and prepared for a midair collision.

"I saw him pull over late," George said. "He's a guy that's going to make a play at the rim. Any floater, anything like that, he's going to try to block. At that point, you've got to go aggressive at the rim."

George isn't the same kind of posterizer he once was, but with options limited against a player like Antetokounmpo, he went for the path of most resistance, packing it over the infinite arms of Antetokounmpo to restore a six-point lead.

"It's P," Thunder guard Terrance Ferguson said. "He's always pulling something out. He had his NASA shoes on. So, he definitely had to take off one time, and it's exactly what he did. Put that in a commercial right there."

The Bucks answered again, though. Eric Bledsoe snapped in a wing 3-pointer to cut the lead to three with a minute left, and as the next Thunder possession dragged into a sloppy isolation, options were limited again. George held the ball on the wing with Malcolm Brogdon trying to hug next to him. George turned his back into a half post-up, pivoted and pulled from deep. All net, and the official dagger to a 118-112 win for the Thunder.