The Thunder’s “OK3” attracts most of the attention, but there’s no chance that the team would be at where it is today without Steven Adams.

The seven-foot, 255-pound Kiwi phenom is an absolute force in the paint. He deters shots, sets bone-wrenching screens and rolls hard to the basket on a nightly basis.

Perhaps the most meaningful purpose Adams has, though, is creating opportunity after opportunity with his activity on the offensive glass. Going deeper than that, is what he does with his teammates at the charity stripe.

As brought up by pbpstats.com founder Darryl Blackport, Adams has pulled down a plethora of boards off his teammates’ missed free throws.

Seeing that absurd number isn’t all that surprising considering the advanced statistics support the evidence. According to Cleaning The Glass, Adams has corralled 11.8 percent of Oklahoma City’s field goal misses and 13 percent of the team’s free throw misfires.

Those figures rank the Thunder big man in the 100th and 97th percentiles, respectively.

Earlier this season when OKC was in Cleveland, head coach Billy Donovan was asked about Adams’ impact, specifically providing those second chances and didn’t hold back in praising the big man.