2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Denver Nuggets (DEN leads 2-1)

[ArksNetsSince99]

Never would have thought Denver can win a game against OKC where Jokic misses so many shots. Their defense (including his) was really good in this game.

For me Dallas trading Luka it’s still a bigger surprise this season

[DonaldSanders]

What stunned me was how rattled OKC looked in OT. I thought Denver would be exhausted and fold but OKC did instead.

Hartenstein hands were shaking, wide open misses on his bread and butter shot...
SGA weny full tunnel vision.

Honestly I was shocked. I thought Denver was gassed.

Jokic was the only guy on Denver that looked gassed to me.

The Nuggets are the battle tested, more confident team. OKC is still young and clearly got the yips tonight late game. Shai has to take over more and not defer as much. Hartenstein was awful late.

[bbms]

what ever justifies hartenstein have all the shots in ot?

just fire mark d

Nothing. Those were bailout shots when SGAs offense fails.

hartenstein and dort shouldn't be out there for a start

[BigGargamel]

Nuggets fans say he has never played with a current All Star. Every other superstar to win a championship has (maybe except Dirk? too lazy right now to look that up).

That is a fact. An easy to look up fact.

Nothing more to really say.

Sure but 2023 Murray in the playoffs was definitely better than 2022 Wiggins. This claim is overblown.

I think Jokic's supporting cast does in fact get denigrated too much -- these are excellent players. You don't win
vs. a 68 win team in the playoffs on an off night from Jokic where he looked clearly gassed if you don't have a good team.

Having said that, I think Jokic deserves all the praise he gets. I just think his teammates often get an unfair characterization.

I like Murray and MPJ and defended them quite a bit when all of those "these are the two worst contracts in the NBA" takes were flying all over the place here back in November and December.

I'm just stating a certified fact. He has never had another All Star teammate.

Not even a phony All Star like that year the Hawks had four.

[Raps in 4]

SGA is not a “fraud” for losing to a Jokic led team in one poor game down the stretch. Let’s be serious

These people are nuts. Series, not games, make a legacy.

The series is over. No way OKC recovers from this.

[Sharkboy242]

Nuggets fans whats up? How we feeling?

The Nuggets will eliminate OKC in 6, my friend. Everything is unfolding in line with the prophecy, yes, indeed

The Nuggets have all the heart. Jokic and a healthy Murray will go down scrapping no matter what.

[Capn'O]

SGA is not a “fraud” for losing to a Jokic led team in one poor game down the stretch. Let’s be serious

These people are nuts. Series, not games, make a legacy.

The series is over. No way OKC recovers from this.

Sure there is. They figure out how to play the shading against SGA, win G4, and they're tied 2-2 headed back home.

[DonaldSanders]

I like Murray and MPJ and defended them quite a bit when all of those "these are the two worst contracts in the NBA" takes were flying all over the place here back in November and December.

I'm just stating a certified fact. He has never had another All Star teammate.

Not even a phony All Star like that year the Hawks had four.

Yeah but it gets used to underrate his teammates. Murray in the '23 playoffs was All-NBA quality.

[ArksNetsSince99]

SGA is not a “fraud” for losing to a Jokic led team in one poor game down the stretch. Let’s be serious

These people are nuts. Series, not games, make a legacy.

The series is over. No way OKC recovers from this.

I just want to kindly remind you LeBron doesn’t play for OKC , there is no need for unwarranted hate

[sunsbg]

Two bigs on the floor and no screens being set, just let SGA play 1 on 1. Not going to work in the playoffs. OKC frauds.

[duppyy]

SGA is not a “fraud” for losing to a Jokic led team in one poor game down the stretch. Let’s be serious

These people are nuts. Series, not games, make a legacy.

The series is over. No way OKC recovers from this.

Sarcasm? This same thing was said after game one as well and we saw how OKC recovered.

[iggymcfrack]

All these superstars haven’t played up to potential in these playoffs.

I can think of one who has.

Tatum ?

Give him a break. He was playing pretty well until the Monstars stole his talent.

[dhsilv2]

Nuggets fans say he has never played with a current All Star. Every other superstar to win a championship has (maybe except Dirk? too lazy right now to look that up).

That is a fact. An easy to look up fact.

Nothing more to really say.

Sure but 2023 Murray in the playoffs was definitely better than 2022 Wiggins. This claim is overblown. The

I think Jokic's supporting cast does in fact get denigrated too much -- these are excellent players. You don't win
vs. a 68 win team in the playoffs on an off night from Jokic where he looked clearly gassed if you don't have a good team.

Having said that, I think Jokic deserves all the praise he gets. I just think his teammates often get an unfair characterization.

The team despite the win still only really used 2 bench players in an OT game. Neither were stand outs, though I do love Westbrook's energy vs the thunder.

MPJ has been terrible all playoffs, so great he had a nice game. But again he's been terrible. He doesn't need more love.

Gordon gets plenty of credit.

Braun is a solid glue guy and seemingly is well liked.

All that's left is Murray who correctly gets criticized for being inconsistent as hell. We all agree when he's on he's a star, but that doesn't happen enough.

[ArksNetsSince99]

These people are nuts. Series, not games, make a legacy.

The series is over. No way OKC recovers from this.

Sure there is. They figure out how to play the shading against SGA, win G4, and they're tied 2-2 headed back home.

Capn’O knows ball well

He just biased about Knicks a lot

[Mamba Mentality]

SGA walking off the court with a huge smile. He knows that the Thunder should be up 3-0 in this series.

[Wolfgang630]

The clutchest teams. The teams who can handle close games the best- New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets. I’ll be in heaven if we have a Denver vs Knicks finals. Still long ways too go.

[NZB2323]

SGA is not a “fraud” for losing to a Jokic led team in one poor game down the stretch. Let’s be serious

These people are nuts. Series, not games, make a legacy.

The series is over. No way OKC recovers from this.

Did you see the way OKC responded after losing game 1? This series is 2-1. It’s far from over.

[HotRocks34]

Hartenstein hands were shaking, wide open misses on his bread and butter shot...
SGA weny full tunnel vision.

Honestly I was shocked. I thought Denver was gassed.

Jokic was the only guy on Denver that looked gassed to me.

The Nuggets are the battle tested, more confident team. OKC is still young and clearly got the yips tonight late game. Shai has to take over more and not defer as much. Hartenstein was awful late.

Murray was definitely gassed also IMO.

But you're right. Experience difference.

[DonaldSanders]

The team despite the win still only really used 2 bench players in an OT game. Neither were stand outs, though I do love Westbrook's energy vs the thunder.

MPJ has been terrible all playoffs, so great he had a nice game. But again he's been terrible. He doesn't need more love.

Gordon gets plenty of credit.

Braun is a solid glue guy and seemingly is well liked.

All that's left is Murray who correctly gets criticized for being inconsistent as hell. We all agree when he's on he's a star, but that doesn't happen enough.

Are we really saying the non-Jokic players weren't superb tonight? Give credit where it was due, this feels like yet another iteration of people down playing Jokic teammate contributions.

[iggymcfrack]

SGA is not a “fraud” for losing to a Jokic led team in one poor game down the stretch. Let’s be serious

These people are nuts. Series, not games, make a legacy.

The series is over. No way OKC recovers from this.

It’s not over yet because they’re the most talented team in the league by far, but I don’t think they can win a close game in crunch time against Denver and I don’t think they can win a Game 7 so they’re running out of runway real fast. They pretty much need 3 straight blowouts with 2 of them at altitude in front of that crazy crowd.