2023 Nuggets vs 2025 Thunder

[1993Playoffs]

OKC in 5-6. Much better team, some of Denver’s wins vs the Thunder were kinda flukey imo.

[EmpireFalls]

I’d say OKC but not by a lot. Ultimately they are better built for 7 games. Denver was slightly deeper in 23 but not much. People forget but none of their series went deep, they didn’t have to play 7 games and were in fact the younger, fresher team when playing LA and Phoenix.

OKC meanwhile grows into every series and gets better and better and would have home court. I’d still heavily favor them in a Game 7.

2 convincing wins by 30+. One gritty win on the road by 5 in a rockfight. Had a lead of 3 with less than a minute left in each of the first 5 games.

Game 1 was just an all time flukey chokejob and Game 3 was similarly awful crunch time execution. Denver did lose leads in Game 4/5 with some poor bench minutes, but then OKC was up 15 in Game 6 as well even in a convincing loss.

Point is I just think the Murray who showed up in 23 would get taken away by OKC’s perimeter defenders, and without Murray going NUCLEAR, the 23 Nuggets are not a great team. It would be close though, and Denver would of course have chances, especially if 2023 MPJ shot really well and KCP managed to do a great job on Shai (but then, Braun did a very good job himself in reality anyway).

[TheGOATRises007]

OKC didn't even shoot well from 3, and still won. Denver needed several miracles to 1) even beat the Clippers, and 2) get it to 7 vs OKC. Then in game 7 it was a blow out. OKC was the clearly better team.

Plus Jokic wasn't playing as well in 2023.

I mean this just isn't true.

There's no argument whatsoever that Jokic wasn't as good in 2023 as he is now. He's pretty much the same player.

Nah, this was probably Jokic's best season. I mean, without even going further than his 3pt shooting you can see he had a notably better year; from 383. off 2.2 attempts, up to 417. off 4.7 attempts. That's a significant improvement.

Someone being better at threes doesn't automatically mean they're a better player.

[GSP]

Denver in 6 very confident
Okc has been mid on the road these playoffs. Needed literally one of the Goat comebacks to beat a Grizzlies team w/o Ja then scraped by 2pts in game 4 fully w/o Ja. Went 1-2 in Denver won by only 5 and it was a 3pt game in the last 20 seconds or something. Scraped by 2 in Minnesota, gave up 64 bench points and got blown the **** out by 40 the other.

I dont think they win a single game in Denver against 23 Nuggets. They were 44-8 at home that year and some of those regular season losses were w/o Jokic. 10-1 at home in playoffs lone loss was to the voodoo Spo Heat hitting like 20 3s and winning by 3.

Mpj is actually healthy and good in 23. W/ how much Okc has struggled defending athletic versatile wings like Shannon and 25 Braun, Bruce Brown wouldve terrorized them. Leaving him open like they did Russ wouldnt work. Murray was as good as ever. Ag wasnt as good in 23 w/ this shocking shooting improvement but he was still great those playoffs. And ofc 25 Denver didnt have a 3&d wing nvm an elite one that can even create a bit off the bounce like Kcp

Denver steals one on the road and wins every home game. 6 games.

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more confident in my pick of Denver in 6. No chance Okc wins on the road against 23 Denver a historically great home team