2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #6 Minnesota Timberwolves vs #7 Golden State Warriors (MIN WINS 4-1)

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Who wins Game 5?

Wolves win and advance to WCF's
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Warriors win and stay alive
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Re: 2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #6 Minnesota Timberwolves vs #7 Golden State Warriors (MIN leads 3-1) 

Post#221 » by thinktank » Thu May 15, 2025 3:33 am

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Sofia wrote:Also, this Minnesota crowd might be whiter than Utah and OKC

Minnesota is whiter than Utah and Oklahoma

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Utah is whiter than Minnesota, my friends.

Wolves games especially are diverse. You’re seeing mostly rich white folk in the expensive seats, and that’s… unfortunate.
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Post#222 » by Chuck Everett » Thu May 15, 2025 3:33 am

azcatz11 wrote:Warriors have so many holes on this team. It’s just such a trash roster except for Steph and Jimmy. Where do they go in the draft


No picks.
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Re: 2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #6 Minnesota Timberwolves vs #7 Golden State Warriors (MIN leads 3-1) 

Post#223 » by Diop » Thu May 15, 2025 3:33 am

Sofia wrote:Kuminga always look so pleased with himself when he scores

Kuminga please
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Post#224 » by jscott » Thu May 15, 2025 3:33 am

Where’s the “Ant gets all the calls” crowd at tonight?!
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Post#225 » by levon » Thu May 15, 2025 3:34 am

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azcatz11 wrote:Warriors have so many holes on this team. It’s just such a trash roster except for Steph and Jimmy. Where do they go in the draft


No picks.

They could trade one of their 4 tradeables for a pick in this one
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Post#226 » by Calinks » Thu May 15, 2025 3:34 am

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Post#227 » by jkvonny » Thu May 15, 2025 3:34 am

Sofia wrote:
Mamba81p wrote:
Sofia wrote:Also, this Minnesota crowd might be whiter than Utah and OKC

Minnesota is whiter than Utah and Oklahoma

fax

Lot of white folks around those parts lol
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Post#228 » by Diop » Thu May 15, 2025 3:35 am

jscott wrote:Where’s the “Ant gets all the calls” crowd at tonight?!

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Post#229 » by Chuck Everett » Thu May 15, 2025 3:36 am

levon wrote:
Chuck Everett wrote:
azcatz11 wrote:Warriors have so many holes on this team. It’s just such a trash roster except for Steph and Jimmy. Where do they go in the draft


No picks.

They could trade one of their 4 tradeables for a pick in this one


Curry, Butler and Draymond make a combined 139.4 million. This is the squad. Play-in at best next year again.
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Post#230 » by Diop » Thu May 15, 2025 3:37 am

Post to the rescue!
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Post#231 » by Mk0 » Thu May 15, 2025 3:37 am

levon wrote:This Butler III sucks, nothing like the original. Should've known, trilogies are almost always bad

It's like when you take 2 books and make it into 3 movies. Just watered down in the end.

We saw flashes of it in that 33/7/7 game but the guy needed to have a stretch where he dominated. That 33 point game was a lot of chipping in throughout the game. Dubs needed him to start a run not "be a part of the offense"
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Post#232 » by Mk0 » Thu May 15, 2025 3:37 am

Diop wrote:Post to the rescue!

That poor backboard.
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Post#233 » by wade44 » Thu May 15, 2025 3:38 am

So.. Miami was smart not to pay Butler
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Post#234 » by azcatz11 » Thu May 15, 2025 3:38 am

Randle looks like he’s playing against a g league team
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Post#235 » by djsunyc » Thu May 15, 2025 3:39 am

just curious but is rob dillingham a lost cause?
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Post#236 » by Dan33185 » Thu May 15, 2025 3:39 am

Warriors have zero depth, I've never heard of half these guys before this series.
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Post#237 » by Diop » Thu May 15, 2025 3:39 am

Kerr has the twitches, he's definitely on something
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Post#238 » by Mk0 » Thu May 15, 2025 3:39 am

Johnny Fontane wrote:So.. Miami was smart not to pay Butler

I don't think anyone thought it was a bad idea for them to pass on him. He had a hell of a run there but Pat knows when to let guys walk.

Just look at every player who Miami opted NOT to pay in the last decade.
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Post#239 » by Wolfgang630 » Thu May 15, 2025 3:40 am

If buddy hield didn’t have the game of his life in game 7 we could’ve had rockets vs Minnesota. Doesn’t matter though because no one saw Curry getting hurt and that matchup wasn’t as compelling as this one.
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Post#240 » by Rubio9Guy » Thu May 15, 2025 3:40 am

djsunyc wrote:just curious but is rob dillingham a lost cause?


TBD, he didn't really have a shot at a role this year.

The minutes he did get, I was impressed how he fought on defense.

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