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

Upperclass · Post #1041 » by **Upperclass** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:25 am

Whats crazy is that if Den wins.. they may have to play the team that seems to have their number recently

Zeno · Post #1042 » by **Zeno** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:25 am

Mamba Mentality wrote:I got money on SGA and the Thunder bouncing back in game 4.

Don’t gamble but that is where I’d put my money if I did, even though I have to also imagine the Jokic will be back to usual greatness next game.

BigGargamel · Post #1043 » by **BigGargamel** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:25 am

Wingy wrote:
BigGargamel wrote:
Marvin Martian wrote:
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.

Sounds very prisoner of the moment.

I remember several years ago people calling for splitting up Brown and Tatum…they just could get it done. They were just young and needed more time. As does OKC if they fail to win it this season.

I am not a prisoner of the moment type of person. And I'm not saying they need to blow up the team. But last year was the year that it was okay for a young team to lose in the second round. If that happens again? Coming off the way they just dominated the West and won almost 70 games? Yeah, you're gonna have to take a very long look in the mirror. Anything less than a trip to the finals would be a massive, monumental disappointment for this team.

Plus, the way the new CBA is, life comes at you really fast. You can't take years and years to get things going. Which is why the premature "dynasty" talk was even more silly this time around than the last time OKC looked like a dynasty. The windows close a lot faster now.

Jadoogar · Post #1044 » by **Jadoogar** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:25 am

Wolfgang630 wrote:All these superstars haven’t played up to potential in these playoffs.

Jokic had 42/20 in g1

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HotRocks34 · Post #1045 » by **HotRocks34** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:26 am

What stunned me was how rattled OKC looked in OT. I thought Denver would be exhausted and fold but OKC did instead.

Mk0 · Post #1046 » by **Mk0** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:27 am

Jadoogar wrote:
Wolfgang630 wrote:All these superstars haven’t played up to potential in these playoffs.
Jokic had 42/20 in g1

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What a bum! They should trade him to Chicago.

TheGOATWill · Post #1047 » by **TheGOATWill** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:27 am

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

I thought Denver's only chance was to muck up 2 or 3 games and assumed they didn't have enough bodies to do it. I might be wrong.

Bank Shot · Post #1048 » by **Bank Shot** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:27 am

SGA did not record a single stat in OT. Not even a shot attempt. I've never seen a superstar Tony Snell a playoff OT.

Post #1049 » by **Mavrelous** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:28 am

HotRocks34 wrote:What stunned me was how rattled OKC looked in OT. I thought Denver would be exhausted and fold but OKC did instead.

Hartenstein hands were shaking, wide open misses on his bread and butter shot...
SGA weny full tunnel vision.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #1050 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:28 am

HotRocks34 wrote:What stunned me was how rattled OKC looked in OT. I thought Denver would be exhausted and fold but OKC did instead.

Exhausted?

Isn’t living and playing on mile high arena shouldn’t be Nuggets advantage ?

azcatz11 · Post #1051 » by **azcatz11** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:28 am

Zeno wrote:
Mamba Mentality wrote:I got money on SGA and the Thunder bouncing back in game 4.

Don’t gamble but that is where I’d put my money if I did, even though I have to also imagine the Jokic will be back to usual greatness next game.

So gamble and take a shot if you’re confident

RookieStar · Post #1052 » by **RookieStar** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:28 am

I dont wanna brag... but is someone keepoling receipts to all the posters prediction before this series started?

I was the one saying my brain says OKC in 5 or 6 BUT my heart says Jokic in 6.

Wow...

WemBA Time · Post #1053 » by **WemBA Time** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:29 am

SlimShady83 wrote:
WemBA Time wrote:Does the board's opinion change on this after every game?

I see you're sort of new, they/we do this every game with every team and player

Lol but I've been lurking here for a while

ball_takes23 · Post #1054 » by **ball_takes23** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:30 am

Wolfgang630 wrote:Must win game 4 for the nuggets. Your mindset is “we need to go for the kill and be up 3-1”. OKC mentally can’t comeback from that.

must win for both teams, gm 4 winner probably wins the series

Mk0 · Post #1055 » by **Mk0** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:30 am

azcatz11 wrote:
Zeno wrote:
Mamba Mentality wrote:I got money on SGA and the Thunder bouncing back in game 4.

Don’t gamble but that is where I’d put my money if I did, even though I have to also imagine the Jokic will be back to usual greatness next game.

So gamble and take a shot if you’re confident

Are there odds on Dort doing another RKO on someone? I'd take that bet. Easy money baybeee

Infinite Llamas · Post #1056 » by **Infinite Llamas** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:30 am

Why didn’t we have this thread honoring MPJ after he shot 3-18 in the first two games?

Oh right…

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #1057 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:31 am

RookieStar wrote:I dont wanna brag... but is someone keepoling receipts to all the posters prediction before this series started?

I was the one saying my brain says OKC in 5 or 6 BUT my heart says Jokic in 6.

Wow...

You said this , I remember

I even thought this guy heart agrees with my brain as I have Nuggets in 6 :lol:

Champ1on · Post #1058 » by **Champ1on** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:32 am

This feels like the Lakers Denver series all over again. Denver wins all the close games as long as they keep it close in the 4th. The only way for the Lakers to win was to blow them out, same as this OKC team. Any close games in the 4th and the Nuggets lock it down and win.

iggymcfrack · Post #1059 » by **iggymcfrack** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:32 am

ImmortalD24 wrote:SGA is a good young player but the guy appears less athletic than post achilles injury Kobe. Can't get by his defender easily ala Donovan Mitchell. It'll be tough to score in the playoffs given his limitations. That said he does put up numbers.

Don’t blame SGA. Thunder have been the second best team of the second round. They’re just going up against 6 healthy clutch assassins.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #1060 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Sat May 10, 2025 5:33 am

azcatz11 wrote:
Zeno wrote:
Mamba Mentality wrote:I got money on SGA and the Thunder bouncing back in game 4.

Don’t gamble but that is where I’d put my money if I did, even though I have to also imagine the Jokic will be back to usual greatness next game.

So gamble and take a shot if you’re confident

Bro at the end of the road you can’t say you lived your life to the fullest if you never gamble

Who wins?