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

Wolfgang630 · Post #261 » by **Wolfgang630** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:39 am

Lakers are a dumb franchise. If they weren’t gifted players they’d be irrelevant with how they trade actual good players away

Post #262 » by **MoneyTalks41890** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:39 am

Not an important game guys no worries

AmIWrongDude · Post #263 » by **AmIWrongDude** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:40 am

NBA been waiting for another big Jokic game before they announce MVP? Lol

BigGargamel · Post #264 » by **BigGargamel** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:40 am

Optms wrote:Its all mental.

OKC is levels above this team. Shai needs to step up though. This isn't gonna get it done against elite defenses.

More Nuggets disrespect. They never "win" anything. It's all mental.

holdenwait · Post #265 » by **holdenwait** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:40 am

OKC with the brickshow next, loving the experience and grit Nuggets are putting on display here

Primedeion · Post #266 » by **Primedeion** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:40 am

Biggest game of the season and your superstar is on the bench. What a joke.

scrabbarista · Post #267 » by **scrabbarista** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:40 am

And Jokic has been looser with his play ever since he came into the second quarter. Hasn't hurt too much so far.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #268 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:40 am

Is it me or this OKC crowd looks a lot like Kim Jong IL crowds in North Korea ?

Very look a like and stationary

TimberKat · Post #269 » by **TimberKat** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:40 am

DEN is wasting their opportunity with turnovers

___Rand___ · Post #270 » by **___Rand___** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:40 am

OKC needs to have someone scream in their face in the locker room. This showing is PATHETIC.

Chuck Everett · Post #271 » by **Chuck Everett** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:41 am

___Rand___ wrote:
Chuck Everett wrote:The ball keeps finding Lu Dort on the perimeter for open shots, but when Isaiah Joe was in the game, he didn't have one clean look. If nothing else, Nuggets are playing defense they haven't played all season in this series. Even the Clippers shot better from 3 against the Nuggets than OKC is.

Nuggets have a weird roster. Murray isn't a good defender. Neither is Porter. Joker has his weakness on that end. Yet they're making it work, and defending SGA like nobody has.

It's not just zone either. They're staying down on every SGA pump fake and they are crashing the glass. Denver's one of the best transition teams in the league and I don't think they have a transition basket.

Optms · Post #272 » by **Optms** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:41 am

___Rand___ wrote:
Chuck Everett wrote:The ball keeps finding Lu Dort on the perimeter for open shots, but when Isaiah Joe was in the game, he didn't have one clean look. If nothing else, Nuggets are playing defense they haven't played all season in this series. Even the Clippers shot better from 3 against the Nuggets than OKC is.

Nuggets have a weird roster. Murray isn't a good defender. Neither is Porter. Joker has his weakness on that end. Yet they're making it work, and defending SGA like nobody has.

Or maybe Shai just is crapping the bed. You just mentioned it. They aren't great defenders. But Shai is making them look great.

Dude is playing like a scrub.

karmew32 · Post #273 » by **karmew32** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:41 am

This is a make-or-break moment for the Thunder franchise. If the Spurs get Giannis, they may very well be the favorites to win the West.

SOA · Post #274 » by **SOA** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:41 am

Denver is laser focused tonight and OKC playing like it is a regular season game. No sense of urgency or anything.

And I find it weird that they've seen the zone for the 6th straight game and yet still haven't come up with a way to attack it and get Denver to adjust.

Give OKC a coach like Carlisle and the team would be world's better.

Mamba Mentality · Post #275 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:41 am

If the Nuggets weren’t so sloppy with their outlet passes they’d be up big. Feels like I’m watching a Laker game.

TimberKat · Post #276 » by **TimberKat** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:42 am

ArksNetsSince99 wrote:Is it me or this OKC crowd looks a lot like Kim Jong IL crowds in North Korea ?

Very look a like and stationary

They do look like an assembly of the communist party in blue

Woodsanity · Post #277 » by **Woodsanity** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:42 am

Optms wrote:
___Rand___ wrote:
Chuck Everett wrote:The ball keeps finding Lu Dort on the perimeter for open shots, but when Isaiah Joe was in the game, he didn't have one clean look. If nothing else, Nuggets are playing defense they haven't played all season in this series. Even the Clippers shot better from 3 against the Nuggets than OKC is.

Nuggets have a weird roster. Murray isn't a good defender. Neither is Porter. Joker has his weakness on that end. Yet they're making it work, and defending SGA like nobody has.

Or maybe Shai just is crapping the bed. You just mentioned it. They aren't great defenders. But Shai is making them look great.

Dude is playing like a scrub.

Another free throw merchant like bumbiid and chokeden. :lol:

durden_tyler · Post #278 » by **durden_tyler** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:42 am

OKC in real trouble here if they can’t cut the lead to a manageable level early in the 3Q— Denver is a veteran team led by a very smart Jokic so they’d know how to protect the lead if they have it in the 4Q.

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scrabbarista · Post #279 » by **scrabbarista** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:43 am

Uh oh... there's been a 2023 Jokic sighting... if ever so briefly.

Mamba Mentality · Post #280 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Wed May 14, 2025 2:43 am

Shai more playmaking like that man.

Who wins Game 5?