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

[durden_tyler]

So what was your excuse last year?

This team has come up short the past 2 years with the best player in the world. Maybe Jokic needs to get serious about winning more championships and ask out?

Uhh…which ATG except Jordan won it every year after their first ring?

Now which of them had 0 all star teammates?

Lebron got criticism every year for coming up short.

Sorry nobody feels sorry for Jokic. If you are the best player in the world the expectations are championship every year.

If you want to throw a parade for a guy getting blown out in the 2nd Rd by all means throw your party. I'm not praising anyone who loses. Denver loss tonight as a team point blank.

No one feels sorry for him. Classy and likeable superstar, won’t throw anyone under a bus after an embarrasing loss like this.

You are mistaking him for the old guy in LA.


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[ImmortalD24]

Mike Malone dodged a bullet right here. Nuggets / Jokic got exposed today.

[Domz]

Do you guys think game 7’s should be super early like this? I’ve always hated it and feel like it gives teams an advantage. Maybe not today of course, but i just think it’s weird because we rarely have these early games to begin with.

Meh. I'm indifferent when the game starts. Not that I expect game 7s to be this one-sided, but I would hate to wait to 8 or 8:30PM EST for the game to be like this.

[JM00n69]

DEN vs OKC when Scott Foster has reffed:

106 - 149
82 - 124 (and counting)

[Chuck Everett]

Nah, Denver's problem is they aren't a good team. Management was blessed with an ATG and made one shrewd move to build around him (Gordon).

Other than that the talent on this roster isn't close to a good team.

Not a good team? Really? They won 50 games, beat the Clippers in a series and took the Thunder to 7. If they're not good, who's good?

I wouldn't consider the 09/10 Cavs good teams either. IF they don't have Jokic I'm not sure they push 30 wins.

Building a good team actually involves building talent around an ATG not just getting lucky in the draft once.

So you also believe the LA Clippers weren't a good team? What about the Thunder? How did they win 7 playoff games, without being good?

[MrPainfulTruth]

Caruso is OKC'S best shot at the Knicks

Dead serious

Brunson historically cooks Caruso. At least he did when he was in Chicago.

Dort will just take out Brunson like he injured Ja Morant. You havent seen what they are allowed to do.

[Mamba Mentality]

OKC putting in the backups backups.

[TravisScott55]

The guy that this forum told me is up there with peak Lebron and Jordan took 9 shots in an elimination game

[TeamTragic]

Mike Malone dodged a bullet right here. Nuggets / Jokic got exposed today.

I guess maybe don't fire your coach and GM at the same time right before the playoffs.

[canada_dry]

Love Jokic but this is the first time I’ve seen someone say having 20 points in a blowout loss is “he did his part” lol nah

Nah nah nah nah nah.

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[10DayContract]

Love Jokic but he has the worst stans ever

It might be worse then Jordan, thats how bad it is.

It’s incredible how awful they are.

[Bloodbather]

People doubting OKC's title contention all season because of their lack of experience grossly underestimated just how special this group is talent wise, especially defensively.

This performance doesn't surprise me, if anything this series shouldn't have gone 7 and it likely wouldn't have if not for OKC's awful fouling strategy in Game 1.

[durden_tyler]

Nah, Denver's problem is they aren't a good team. Management was blessed with an ATG and made one shrewd move to build around him (Gordon).

Other than that the talent on this roster isn't close to a good team.

I just dont agree with this at all. Aaron Gordon was incredible all series until the injury. Jamal Murray runs hot and cold but had brilliant moments against a team with 4 different all-defense level guards. MPJ was injured. Christian Braun is legit.

This team doesn't have depth. They only have 6-7 rotation level players. They took a 68-win(!) team with arguably the best defense ever(!) to 7 games before running out of gas.

People have been whining all playoffs long, but this was a really good series with some incredible performances. Denver is really good.

Yeah, I'm very much pro-Denver, but from a neutral perspective, this was a classic-quality series.

Yes this was. Casuals will use this G7 blowout to discredit Jokic but we all know he’s still the best player in the world.


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[bisme37]

Great series this was... now, Wolves and Thunder, lets go!!

I was thinking about you this morning, figured the possibility of having to make the Thunder postmortem today was not exciting you a ton haha.

Congrats!

[KyRo23]

9 shots in a game 7. 9

I can’t fathom that. I was totally expecting a giant Jokic game

[canada_dry]

Love Jokic but he has the worst stans ever

It might be worse then Jordan, thats how bad it is.

It’s incredible how awful they are.

I love joker too. Like a lot. But his fanboys have exposed themselves this year.

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[GeorgeSears]

The Nuggets bench needs a complete makeover.

There's no one on there that's an NBA ready contributor. Strawther is borderline, if I'm being nice. The rest are all disposable G-League guys.

[Mk0]

Caruso is OKC'S best shot at the Knicks

Dead serious

Brunson historically cooks Caruso. At least he did when he was in Chicago.

Yeah but Caruso is in an OKC jersey now. He can hack the ever-loving-sh#t out of Brunson and it'll just be "tough nosed" defense.

*I love watching AC play defense but that dude fouls out of these games if he were still in a Bulls jersey. It'd be pretty cool if every team were allowed to play like this.

[jokeboy86]

We potentially are seeing the end of Giannis in Milwaukee, I wonder the same with Joker in Denver. I don't know what they do to improve that team other than run back another year of Murray AG and MPJ. Braun has one more year before they have to think about paying him his market rate.

Nope not even close because Jokic is content letting the front office do their thing and won’t say a word. Make no mistake he wants to win but there’s no burning desire to catch the other greats in rings at all costs. The reason there’s always been that talk with Giannis is because he’s on record saying he considers one ring not enough and will be disappointed if he only ends his career with one. I don’t think Jokic will ever say that or things like he wants to catch Kobe, LeBron, Jordan, Steph or Duncan

[TeamTragic]

People doubting OKC's title contention all season because of their lack of experience grossly underestimated just how special this group is talent wise, especially defensively.

Adding Caruso was a playoff move. Presti knew exactly what this team needed.