Average margin of victory for the DEN-MIN series: 25 points

[ScrantonBulls]

The average margin of victory for this series has been a whopping 25 points per game. They've all been blowouts except for one, but it still felt like Denver had that won the entire game. Have we ever seen this with an even series? Pretty wild.

[EmpireFalls]

Has to be said, aside from that Game 1 (which feels like an eternity ago) this series has not made for fun viewing. Game 7 had better deliver. A lot of garbage time and a lot of people tuning out early.

[life_saver]

The 45 pt win skews things a bit. G1 and G4 were close games which did come down to last 1-2 mins. G5 was close until start of 4th Qtr. Having couple of blowouts is common in lot of 7 games series. iirc in the famous 2016 series finals, none of the first 6 games were close. Closest margin of victory in first 6 games was something like 12 points

[life_saver]

Has to be said, aside from that Game 1 (which feels like an eternity ago) this series has not made for fun viewing. Game 7 had better deliver. A lot of garbage time and a lot of people tuning out early.

G4 was a pretty close game

[ChipotleWest]

Still a great series, because it's not one sided. But kinda boring to watch the end of games.

[Mr Puddles]

I don't have the stats on this, but it certainly feels like there are far more playoff blowouts in the last three years or so. It certainly makes the games a lot less fun to watch.

[ballzboyee]

I don't have the stats on this, but it certainly feels like there are far more playoff blowouts in the last three years or so. It certainly makes the games a lot less fun to watch.

The saying used to be that teams always make a run in the 4th quarter and games would always get tight. If a team was behind, they would start playing more physical and just get dirty. Now, the refs control the flow of the game a lot more. We have seen that in this series in particular where Minnesota came out very physical in the first two games, and the refs shut all that physical nonsense down in game 3. Also, if one team gets behind and the other team is lighting it up from three, with these shooters there isn't a lot the team that is behind can do. It's a wrap, and teams just kind of lay down and save their energy for the next game.

[Mavrelous]

The average margin of victory for this series has been a whopping 25 points per game. They've all been blowouts except for one, but it still felt like Denver had that won the entire game. Have we ever seen this with an even series? Pretty wild.

Suns/Mavs 2022 was 7 games of blowouts, not a single competetive game

[NZB2323]

The 2005 NBA Finals all the games were blowouts except game 5.

Margin of victory wasn’t as great, but there was less scoring. In 5 of the games the losing team failed to score 80 points, and in one of them the losing team failed to score 70 points.

[sp6r=underrated]

Now, the refs control the flow of the game a lot more. We have seen that in this series in particular where Minnesota came out very physical in the first two games, and the refs shut all that physical nonsense down in game 3.

Sigh, the refs are not having nearly the impact on games as you think. If they were the MOV wouldn't be so large. There is no conspiracy from the NBA with regards to officiating. Nor are refs going rogue.

Also, if one team gets behind and the other team is lighting it up from three, with these shooters there isn't a lot the team that is behind can do. It's a wrap, and teams just kind of lay down and save their energy for the next game.

This is entirerly the issue. NBA teams are taking way more 3s and 3 points shots are high varience. So we get way more lopsided games due to one team being abnormally hot from down town and one team abnormally cold.

[Deshaun Taden]

Games 1 and 4 were tight and could have gone either way. Game 4 was really decided in 9 seconds at the end of the 1H.

Game 5 is kind of right on the cusp of a blowout, a 15pt game in the modern NBA really isn't considered a blowout but yeah I don't really think Denver was in danger. Especially with Jokic shortening the game.

This has been a fun series. I wouldn't be surprised if Game 7 ends up a blowout though. A blowout, or decisive victory even, really doesn't mean much sometimes, it can just mean one team got a hot streak while the other went cold despite both executing at the same level. At this point fans should really just acknowledge both these teams have stepped up and shown out. Winner of this one could very well be the champion. Wouldn't even surprise me if this ends up being their hardest series of the playoffs.

[Mrakar]

Has to be said, aside from that Game 1 (which feels like an eternity ago) this series has not made for fun viewing. Game 7 had better deliver. A lot of garbage time and a lot of people tuning out early.

Game 7s are usually blowouts, i hope as well that this one isnt.

[Bloodbather]

Has been a very weird series. Evenly matched, but individual games are mostly blowouts. First four games won by the away team.

[LockoutSeason]

A lot of people confuse a “close game” with a “good game”.

[durden_tyler]

Has to be said, aside from that Game 1 (which feels like an eternity ago) this series has not made for fun viewing. Game 7 had better deliver. A lot of garbage time and a lot of people tuning out early.

Game 7s are usually blowouts, i hope as well that this one isnt.

This is oh so true recently from memory (and curiously most also went the under)

Line for G7 is: Wolves +4.5 vs Nuggets | Totals: 198.0

Blowouts highlighted (others not sure if just close score if at all close games and vice versa)

From Wikipedia (Just copying the last 5 years)

2024
First Round - Cavs 106, Magic 94

2023
East Finals - Heat 103, Celtics 84
East Semis - Celtics 112, 76ers 88
First Round - Warriors 120, Kings 100

2022
East Finals - Celtics 100, Heat 96
East Semis - Celtics 109, Bucks 81
West Semis - Mavs 123, Suns 90

2021
East Semis - Hawks 103, 76ers 96
East Semis - Bucks 115, Nets 111 (OT)
First Round - Clippers 126, Mavs 111

2020
East Semis - Celtics 92, Raptors 87
West Semis - Nuggets 104, Clippers 89
First Round - Nuggets 80, Jazz 78
First Round - Rockets 104, Thunder 102

2019
West Semis - Blazers 100, Nuggets 96
East Semis - Raptors 92, 76ers 90
First Round - Nuggets 90, Spurs 86

So the last five, we started off great with majority as close games in the first two years for G7s (2019 and 2020) but in the last three years, 8 of 10 games sevens were decided by big blowouts.

[Mr Puddles]

The average margin of victory for this series has been a whopping 25 points per game. They've all been blowouts except for one, but it still felt like Denver had that won the entire game. Have we ever seen this with an even series? Pretty wild.

Suns/Mavs 2022 was 7 games of blowouts, not a single competetive game

Funny enough, this series could potentially play out the same way if the Wolves blow out the Nuggets at home. The only difference being that the home team had blown out the opponent up until game 7 in the Suns / Mavs series.

Mavs Suns is also exactly the series I had in mind when I said that if felt that in the past three years there have been more playoff blowouts than in the past.

[Edrees]

A lot of people confuse a “close game” with a “good game”.

Games are't good when you know the outcome early in the 3rd quarter. if you dont believe me, tape the game. i'll tell you who wins and see if you can find it as interesting

[Gatorade Sax]

This series is **** weird.