2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1)

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Omg you guys who wins Game 4??

Thunder win and go up 3-1
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Wolves win and tie it up
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#381 » by NiceLikeChrist » Tue May 27, 2025 2:09 am

canada_dry wrote:5 points from free throws.

16 points from straight buckets.

Haters: he's just flopping for his points.

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You’re so close to understanding that the defense being aware of how you’re officiated plays a big role in the shots you get and how close they can play you
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#382 » by Calinks » Tue May 27, 2025 2:09 am

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Calinks wrote:Who do y'all think the Fantastic Four are rooting for tonight?


Holmgren literally looks like Reed Richards

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Post#383 » by ibraheim718 » Tue May 27, 2025 2:09 am

canada_dry wrote:5 points from free throws.

16 points from straight buckets.

Haters: he's just flopping for his points.

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He shouldn't have got those 6 free throws
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Post#384 » by cjx » Tue May 27, 2025 2:09 am

Who are the Fantastic Four and Justice League of the NBA, Fam?
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#385 » by canada_dry » Tue May 27, 2025 2:09 am

NiceLikeChrist wrote:
canada_dry wrote:5 points from free throws.

16 points from straight buckets.

Haters: he's just flopping for his points.

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You’re so close to understanding that the defense being aware of how you’re officiated plays a big role in the shots you get and how close they can play you
And you're so close to not crying.

Not quite there though.

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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#386 » by Mk0 » Tue May 27, 2025 2:09 am

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Mk0 wrote:
powerball1373 wrote:You know it's bad when Doris Burke is calling you a free throw merchant for a second game lmao.


She says it like it is his nickname. I don't think she knows it is a negative term.


She does she throws shade at him a lot.

Nah she is just old and doesn't realize it. She should do a game with Mark Jones and they can use gen alpha phrases all game.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#387 » by JustBuzzin » Tue May 27, 2025 2:10 am

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JustBuzzin wrote:Kendrick Perkins looks like he stays in his hotel all day and order door dash until it's time for work.

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Bro really let himself go after basketball. Kinda sad how some players just get fat after retiring.
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Post#388 » by baller16 » Tue May 27, 2025 2:10 am

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baller16 wrote:Where was this energy when Jokic flops? Dude is just as bad if not worse than SGA when it comes to baiting. I swear people are just hating at this point

lol Jokic gets mauled. Scratched allover every game and doesn’t get nearly the amount of calls SGA does


:lol: :lol:

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Post#389 » by M2J » Tue May 27, 2025 2:10 am

This alternative insight cast with legler and ruocco with some other guy is actually awesome. Been watching it the last 2 games
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#390 » by canada_dry » Tue May 27, 2025 2:11 am

ibraheim718 wrote:
canada_dry wrote:5 points from free throws.

16 points from straight buckets.

Haters: he's just flopping for his points.

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He shouldn't have got those 6 free throws
Ok so now in your make believe world where he gets ZERO damn free throws...

He still has 16 at the half and on his way to another 30 point game...now what?

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Post#391 » by PierceFan4ever » Tue May 27, 2025 2:11 am

It’s always funny to see Caruso always complaining about lack of calls when he gets away with the most
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#393 » by Diop » Tue May 27, 2025 2:11 am

Domejandro wrote:Love the adjustment to set screens at halfcourt for Anthony Edwards. Gives him more space to operate, rather than getting doubled directly at the three-point line.

exactly instead of doing a Stephen A Squid and yelling its all Ants fault, the coach needed to find a way to give his kid room.

illegal defense stopped MJ from getting taking out of the play like this
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#394 » by MoneyTalks41890 » Tue May 27, 2025 2:12 am

That was not a favorable whistle for OKC
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Post#395 » by ball_takes23 » Tue May 27, 2025 2:12 am

Dort trying to injure more players, whats new
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#396 » by Domejandro » Tue May 27, 2025 2:12 am

Best broken fast break of all time! :lol:
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#397 » by Himothy Duncan » Tue May 27, 2025 2:12 am

OldSchoolNoBull wrote:Has anybody been watching the ESPN2 simulcast w/Legler and whoever the other guy is? You might prefer the analysis there to the main telecast.


I will start now, thanks. The main telecast is trash. Doris Burke is dog sh*t and Jefferson isn’t much better.
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Post#398 » by MoMan24 » Tue May 27, 2025 2:13 am

ibraheim718 wrote:Thunder fans HAVE to defend SGA.. so disregard anything they say. The guy makes no real attempt to make shots when he's grifting for free throws.. they're not legitimate basketball shots they're meant to appear like they are in order to trick refs into calling fouls and sending him to the free throw line. If free throws didn't exist he wouldn't be doing it because they have no shot at going in.

The league should tell the refs to ignore every unnatural and awkward shoot attempts looking to generate fouls whether there was or wasn't contact. Those plays will be counted as a missed shot or a turnover and the problem will quickly solve itself. Stuff like the sweep through jumpers will just be air balls. Players used pump fake and drive by people and now they just launch into them. This was never how the game was meant to be played. Everyone knows this.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#399 » by DrModesty » Tue May 27, 2025 2:13 am

NiceLikeChrist wrote:
canada_dry wrote:5 points from free throws.

16 points from straight buckets.

Haters: he's just flopping for his points.

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You’re so close to understanding that the defense being aware of how you’re officiated plays a big role in the shots you get and how close they can play you


It is the player's abilities leading to how he is guarded leading him to adjust in a manner that makes their guarding illegal which forces refs to call the fouls which causes the defense to adjust.

You are only talking about the end of the chain.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-1) 

Post#400 » by cupcakesnake » Tue May 27, 2025 2:13 am

The defensive talent in this series is just insane.
Caruso and Gobert are amongst the best defenders to ever do it. J.Dub, Jaden, Chet, NAW, Dort, Cason, iHart are all guys who get all-defense votes. Ant and Shai are two of the better defenders amongst star guards. Both team is deep with role players who are plus defenders (Kenrich, Wiggins, DDV, TSJ, Jaylen Clark).

Anytime I'm more focused on the defense, I'm astounded by the defensive playmaking, IQ, and just dudes having strong defensive possessions. It's more fun to watch the defense than the offense in this series.
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