It was midnight, Terrance Ferguson was on his way to the gym after a tough loss, and he got a call from Russell Westbrook.

“Where you at?” Westbrook asked.

Ferguson told him, and Westbrook responded, “OK, I’ll be there in 20.”

When Ferguson retold the story Sunday, he couldn’t remember exactly which loss it had been. The Thunder had four straight to start the season, and Ferguson was in a shooting slump for all of them. But he said the 30- to 45-minute conversation he had with Westbrook that night helped draw him out of that rut. After shooting 7-of-24 from the field and 1-of-14 from beyond the arc through the Thunder's first seven games, Ferguson knocked down three 3-pointers against Washington Friday.