2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Denver Nuggets (OKC leads 3-2)

[Wolfgang630]

Get rid of Murray and MPJ already. Useless af. Incompetent franchise screwed Jokic over

[CntOutSmrtCrazy]

Baffling decision by Denver. Murray hasn't been paying attention to his man all night with weak ass doubles, Denver bricking wide open looks all night, continuing to play Porter (this dude is a terrible basketball player, they won that chip in spite of him being a terrible player), goofy passes, etc.

As others have said, just a lot of self inflicted wounds that are just really bad IQ stuff. Denver just can deal with success, as soon as they get the slightest cushion they start doing dumb stuff. Roster is a disaster aside from Gordon and maybe Braun around Jokic.

[Jadoogar]

What is Jokic supposed to do if he’s double or triple teamed? Hes scoring at a goat level but when he has nowhere to go, he does the right play finding the right teammate who brick badly on wide open threes.

Don't pass out to MPJ when he's cold!

Mpj is supposedly a shooter

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[ibraheim718]

They got nobody else.

A scrub is better than a guy who shoots this poorly.

Who they gonna put out there?

Strawther.. in 10 minutes he did as much as MPJ in 29

[sikma42]

Here you guys go sucking Jokic’s d*ck and sh*tting on his teammates, when Jokic had been God awful the last 3 games.

Literally what more could have done?

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Great game from Joker. But after the last 3 games, I wouldn’t blame his teammates for the current situation. He didn’t hold up his end of the bargain in the earlier games. Can expect this cast to step up every game.

[HotRocks34]

You tried man.

You tried.

Can't spin that performance.

That's the best player in the league.

[ORLMagicGirl15]

This game is bad for the rest of the NBA especially the Western Conference.

OKC have finally learnt how to learn tough gritty playoff games and series after being in a couple of holes. They now have the 'Belief' they can win it all (not saying necessarily they will win the chip but they are now a lot more tougher and experienced than last season's team that lost to the Mavs)

Honestly, in the West, that thinking is good for one season. Win it this season, because these Western teams and playoffs are completely unpredictable. And with this first and second apron cba mess, who knows what teams can even look like.

[SFour]

it was over when Westbrook airballed 2 threes...Nuggets margin for error is too small to be bricking that many shots

[Domz]

This really feels like a 7 game series.

[Marvin Martian]

Here you guys go sucking Jokic’s d*ck and sh*tting on his teammates, when Jokic had been God awful the last 3 games.

Murray 10-27
Braun 3-12
Porter 1-7
Westbrook 1-7

Jokic 17-25

Yeah, his teammates are going to get roasted for their performance tonight.

If Jokic played up to par this series, DEN would be up 3-2 instead of being down 2-3

[okboomer]

I think Denver is just one bench player short with how well Jokic is. Just someone who can play 20 minutes a game and not be a complete liability on either end.

[scrabbarista]

OKC won this game and I'm honestly confused.

It's four quarters, man. They won it fair and square.

[Jadoogar]

Give Joker competent teammates who can MAKE AN OPEN 3 and this series is over

Holy drops 44. Help this man

His first good game of the entire series and people are jumping out of the roofs

Shout out to Shai, MVP

... he had 44/20 in game 1?

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[_NoMas]

There were lots of hot takes flying about when Denver was up 12, and I’m sure plenty more today/ tomorrow. But I think Denver can force a game 7, which they’d have absolutely taken if offered before the series started

[ky_23]

This game is bad for the rest of the NBA especially the Western Conference.

OKC have finally learnt how to learn tough gritty playoff games and series after being in a couple of holes. They now have the 'Belief' they can win it all (not saying necessarily they will win the chip but they are now a lot more tougher and experienced than last season's team that lost to the Mavs)

not actually. learning to win tough games is one think but they are playing a winning basketball at times. they are still struggling to find a reliable hand on offense sometimes. even those dort 3s wouldn't be enough if someone not named jokic scored a fg in the final quarter. i think it is a warn sign that they are struggling against this denver defense considering wolves waiting them in cf.

[shi-woo]

Watching Jokic, the best player since MJ, play with this level of supporting cast in his prime is a legit crime against humanity.

People will bring up LeBron in CLE, but that dude was in his early 20's and was playing with 2 other All-NBA guys when he was 25/26. Joker has literally had nothing his entire career.

It's getting really tiresome watching this man be the best player i've ever seen play the game of basketball, put up these heroic performances, just for his mediocre team mates to literally do nothing all game.

Murray and Gordon are solid starters, but 2nd and 3rd best player? That is legit a shame, MPJ's salary slot should have been going to a legit max level player, and the 13mil going to Zeke and Zaric needed to be a legit 6th man type.

DEN has literally just needed to field a solid roster that goes 8 deep and they would have mopped this generation.

Credit to OKC, but i just cant get how mediocre this guys supporting cast has been over the years.

[Tor_Raps]

Jokic needs to demand out... he's playing with bums.

[reload141]

Here you guys go sucking Jokic’s d*ck and sh*tting on his teammates, when Jokic had been God awful the last 3 games.

Murray 10-27
Braun 3-12
Porter 1-7
Westbrook 1-7

Jokic 17-25

Yeah, his teammates are going to get roasted for their performance tonight.

This. And Jokic knows he can go off at anytime, but in order to actually WIN he needs to setup his teammates, how do people not realise this?

[CelticSooner]

OKC are growing up. Probably going to have to win a Game 7 too though.

Nah this is over. When’s the last time both Jokic and Murray had a good series, ‘23 Finals? When’s the last time they both had an efficient game. The best thing for Denver’s long term future is that they get whooped in game 6. Only then will management realize that Jokic and Gordon are the only reliable consistent players.

Murray has been fine in this series. Denver are losing because they have no bench. It’s feast or famine from Westbrook and MPJ is what he is.

[bb22]

Tough win and tough series. Hope to watch Minny and OKC in the conference finals. Would be electric.