2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #6 Minnesota Timberwolves vs #7 Golden State Warriors (GSW leads 1-0)

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If Jonathan Kuminga wasn’t such hot trash despite actually showing signs of being a gifted scorer in the past then he could’ve helped keep Warriors afloat by winning at least 1 of the two home games for the Warriors.

But he looks like he’s lost all his basketball ability.

Add in Moses Moody to that mix. The guy is just in a bad slump.

Moody doesn’t have the type of ceiling Kuminga has.

Moody’s best case scenario would be like prime Wesley Matthews. Kuminga could be like a Corey Maggette type 15-20 ppg scorer.

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[SpreeS]

We become new Houston w/o Curry. So we can put on floor even more defence....Payton/Looney/Green/Butler. We wont score much, but Minny also won't and BBIQ (Green/Butler) could steal win or two...and we can only pray that Curry will be able to play after 12 (game 6th) or 14 days (game 7th)

[Handlez]

Warriors are great defensively.

Very well coached.

Truly a joy to watch and wouldn't be surprised if they can get by Wolves without Curry.

That motion offense is beautiful.

The defense was great but Minnesota missed a million open threes tonight. GS did a good job of speeding them up but Wolves also just missed a lot.

Their offense was not beautiful tonight. They got some really nice relocation threes for Buddy Hield. Golden State got 6 3-pointers from Draymond and GP2. Those two only hit 14 the entire last series.

This game was just silly and insane. A win's a win, so congrats to the Warriors. Always huge to steal game 1.

Disagree.

The offense was beautiful to me because they had to go a completely different direction when Curry went down. They adapted without a hitch and without great personel. The motion offense allowed players, such as Hield, to get open time and time again. They no longer had an otherworldly shot creator to rely on, but the constant movement and screen setting allowed players that can't create on their own to get good looks.

I much prefer their style over heliocentric basketball.

[Handlez]

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Truly one of the greatest defenders and competitors in NBA history.

[SweetTouch]

Baby wolves couldn’t hit a shot to save their lives

They already won their title beating the Lakers

They have no reason to get up for games anymore

Series is over in 5

[76ciology]

Accurate

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[Shaka_Zulu]

Kudos to Warriors, absolutely great defending all game, and well executed high IQ gameplan throughout.

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[michaelm]

All I know is I don’t ever want to hear that Steph doesn’t have enough help. For the last couple years that has been the built in excuse for warriors failures

Excuse for what ?.

They have won 4 titles with him.

[JujitsuFlip]

What the heck Steph got injured?!

[kuly1990]

2nd game in a row Buddy Hield carries Batman and Robin.

Tell me you don't know **** about basketball without telling me that you don't know **** about basketball...

[Raonak]

**** hell, I did not expect a win with steph, let alone with steph injured (which **** sucks )

I hope to all the gods that it heals fast. Steph must be so **** pissed, because he was absolutely gonna COOK this series.

The rockets defense was the real deal, this timberwolves defense/intensity does not reach the rockets level, maybe it's just game 1 feelings.

If steph gets healthy, the warriors have a legitimate chance to get that 5th ring.

And seeing the warrior haters come out of the woodwork is so fun to see

[cgf]

I just don’t see how the warriors make a series of it. They struggled with a much less dangerous Houston team just because of how small they are and how old their core is, the wolves should eat them alive.

lol touche, but it's still early in the series and the Wolves had a game like this against the Lakers as well. I'm still taking Minnesota in 6.

[cgf]

I just don’t see how the warriors make a series of it. They struggled with a much less dangerous Houston team just because of how small they are and how old their core is, the wolves should eat them alive.

Maybe everyone is underestimating that Houston team. They were tough.

Like Detroit & Orlando, the Rockets are very tough...but Minnesota is just as tough and way more talented. The wolves aren't a very smart team, so that's going to remain an advantage for GSW, and we got a reminder of just how bad they can look on a bad night, but they don't look like that most nights and I still struggle to see the Warriors winning more than two games.

[Sealab2024]

Timberwolves need to be careful with this. There's a large Scandinavian population up here and we're pretty bad with the spooks and spirits. Shooting 15% from 3 looks an awful lot like the gods have been angered. If it continues goats may have to be sacrificed.

[jigga_man]

I doubt Curry comes back in this series. If he does i would expect re-injury.

He told Draymond he was good and Kerr said he's day to day... of course it's up to Celebrini but I'm expecting Curry back for game three.

Kawhi was day to day with a 'knee sprain' when he tore his ACL in the 2021 playoffs. Teams these days try to give as little information as possible in the playoffs.

[TimberKat]

Timberwolves need to be careful with this. There's a large Scandinavian population up here and we're pretty bad with the spooks and spirits. Shooting 15% from 3 looks an awful lot like the gods have been angered. If it continues goats may have to be sacrificed.

Looks like we did sacrificed a GOAT but that didn't break the voodoo, still can't buy a basket.

[hardenASG13]

Big Edwards fan, but he was too focused on getting to the line in that first half. They had too many possessions where he just stands there when it's not his turn to shoot. He should at least get a touch up top almost every possession when the offense is struggling like that. Home teams have to wake up which is so weird.

[Coach Carter]

Can never trust these upcoming sides