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

BigGargamel · Post #981 » by **BigGargamel** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:15 am

Marvin Martian wrote:
Mk0 wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:Imagine how much better OKC would be if they swapped Chet for Giannis.

I said it like 5 pages ago. I know OKC fans want to stick with their home grown team but you trade for Giannis and you own the league for the next 5 years.

The spacing would be horrible OKC would need a stretch 5 that can defend and those do not grow on trees.

I think they are better off sticking with this team. They have the age advantage so there is no need to panic

If they fail to get past the second round, with perhaps the best regular season of all time, it is absolutely time to panic. And I say this as someone who thinks people overreact way too often.

rickxdel · Post #982 » by **rickxdel** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:15 am

this series is the true WCF

iggymcfrack · Post #983 » by **iggymcfrack** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:15 am

So in every other series, the good teams can’t stop tripping over each others toes. Meanwhile in this series, the Thunder are basically the Monstars from Space Jam and the Nuggets keep stealing games from them! Tell me JW doesn’t look like he just stole Jayson Tatum’s talent. Doesn’t matter!!!! Murray and Gordon are clutch assassins!!!! OMG what a **** series!!!!!

Loaf_of_bread · Post #984 » by **Loaf_of_bread** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:15 am

SGA is just not clutch.

76ciology · Post #985 » by **76ciology** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:15 am

Deathray wrote:Shai was way too passive. Daigenault was doing all he could to keep him off the ball to try to set stuff up for him but Shai would not assert himself. Maybe he got intimidated by Braun because Christian was consistently able to stay in front of him.

And I don't understand why Caruso was not in the game during crunch time. That makes no sense.

Because Nuggets got multiple guys zoning/shading him.

One of the storylines of this playoffs is having multiple guys who can carry a team to victory.

jokeboy86 · Post #986 » by **jokeboy86** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:15 am

PushDaRock wrote:
RRR3 wrote:
BigGargamel wrote:Williams should have had 50 tonight. SGA freezing him out in overtime to brick everything was comical.

Yeah that was pathetic. Coach can't let that happen idk how good a year dude had he didn't have it tonight.

Jokic didn't either, but he still came through with a couple buckets they needed.

Coaches are going to live with the result of having the ball in their Superstars' hands.

And I hate when that happens. Kobe almost cost the Lakers in game 7 of the Finals by doing that.

Wolfgang630 · Post #987 » by **Wolfgang630** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:15 am

Jordan played a lot of bad games…the media has brainwashed everyone into only knowing his good games

iggymcfrack · Post #988 » by **iggymcfrack** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:16 am

rickxdel wrote:this series is the true WCF

Maybe if you get rid of the W and the C

fanofthegreats · Post #989 » by **fanofthegreats** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:16 am

yoyoboy wrote:
fanofthegreats wrote:When a guy like SGA is a possible league MVP, you know the league Is in bad shape.

Do you guys ever get tired of posting such incredibly stupid reactionary takes? Do you not feel at all embarrassed? You know this same guy had 34 points, missed two shots, and posted the highest single game plus-minus in playoff history just two days ago right?

This is what makes the league so great. That a young guy who had one of the greatest guard seasons in league history on a dominant 68 win team can still find himself experiencing some obstacles in the playoffs against a less talented team of experienced veterans. Maybe he’ll lose the series and it’ll prove to be a learning moment like it was for the countless other examples of MVPs who had struggles in the playoffs and then had dominant championship runs later (LeBron, Dirk, Curry, and Giannis just to name a few recent ones). Maybe he’ll have a monster Game 4 and you’ll shut up until the next night he has a bad shooting night.

Blah blah blah- regular season merchant. His skillset is laughable as an MVP candidate. Take away the favorable whistle and you got nothing left.

WemBA Time · Post #990 » by **WemBA Time** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:16 am

How does this thread rank compared to the thread with the thread with the same title that has quotation marks?

HotRocks34 · Post #991 » by **HotRocks34** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:16 am

___Rand___ wrote:
HotRocks34 wrote:Big time SGA choke job. He was 1/8 in the fourth quarter and OT and he missed his last 7 FGA.

But Denver's defense was set up for his ISOs. Did you watch the game? There were 2-3 guys waiting for him when he drives in. And Daignault kept running the same play over and over again. Till they lost.

Of course I watched the game.

OKC is predictable. That's a flaw.

Jta444 · Post #992 » by **Jta444** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:16 am

Thing is Jokic’s 2nd option is not as consistent and good as other superstars had

Like Lebron for example who had Wade, Kyrie, AD, now Luka who are all legit 2nd options.

This Nuggets team you don’t know if it’s Murray one day or Gordon the next. They’re both more like 3rd options.

Wolfgang630 · Post #993 » by **Wolfgang630** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:16 am

All these superstars haven’t played up to potential in these playoffs.

KO7 · Post #994 » by **KO7** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:16 am

I like Caruso more offensively, and I’m not convinced Dort does a better job than him at sticking to Murray. Problem is that Dort is more flexible when inevitable switching happens, particularly in the paint.

QPR · Post #995 » by **QPR** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:17 am

OKC needs to run Denver out of the gym in the first quarter again. They do not want an arm wrestle series.

multo · Post #996 » by **multo** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:17 am

More like Jokic has the most inconsistent help from his teammates..

AleksandarN · Post #997 » by **AleksandarN** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:17 am

JustBuzzin wrote:Tonight his championship supporting cast carried him to a victory playing one of his worst games of his career. Enough about how Jokic doesn't have a supporting cast. He literally won a championship with this same core. Tonight the supporting cast bailed him out.

Aaron Gordon is the new Robert Horry!

Shout-out to the Nuggets championship supporting cast.

Give Jokic a break. He is solving the housing crisis one brick at a time

Post #998 » by **Capn'O** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:17 am

ArksNetsSince99 wrote:
LFGK wrote:
CelticSooner wrote:Minnesota/Denver was the real Finals last year, don’t you remember?

You should worry more bout my squad puting you in a 3-0 hole tomorrow. Hell of a game tonight but SGA was Brutal and Denver tightened up defensively in the 4th and OT.

Celtics would never go down in 0-3 hole

JustBuzzin · Post #999 » by **JustBuzzin** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:17 am

GSWFan1994 wrote:Gotta love the "prisoner of the moment" takes and threads.

He won a championship with this core group of players.

Seem like we forgot how special his supporting cast was. They carried him tonight when Jokic played his worst game.

The narrative he has no help must stop. He has plenty of help.

Deathray · Post #1000 » by **Deathray** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:17 am

76ciology wrote:
Deathray wrote:Shai was way too passive. Daigenault was doing all he could to keep him off the ball to try to set stuff up for him but Shai would not assert himself. Maybe he got intimidated by Braun because Christian was consistently able to stay in front of him.

And I don't understand why Caruso was not in the game during crunch time. That makes no sense.

Because Nuggets got multiple guys zoning/shading him.

One of the storylines of this playoffs is having multiple guys who can carry a team to victory.

Even when he got Murray switched on him one on one he didn't drive. He was really passive.

Who wins?