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

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Who wins?

Poll ended at Sun May 11, 2025 3:49 pm

Thunder in 5
2
3%
Thunder in 6
16
21%
Thunder in 7
12
16%
Nuggets in 5
5
7%
Nuggets in 6
22
29%
Nuggets in 7
18
24%
 
Total votes: 75

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

Post#1201 » by Calvin Klein » Sat May 10, 2025 2:36 pm

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bbms wrote:tomorrow is a new game but i am baffled by how people is blind to the fact that jokic is one of the worst starters of this series (imo only ahead of dort)

he's a turnover machine offensively and a huge liability on defense. if denver is not getting all the rebounds he's unplayable.

he's been a 100% carried by his teammates and the thunder's poor decision making down the stretch is helping


42/22/6 in game one…

Denver easily wins that game without Jokic.

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he's not trolling. he's just not bright


that usually goes hand in hand
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Re: 2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Denver Nuggets (DEN leads 2-1) 

Post#1202 » by Mavrelous » Sat May 10, 2025 2:37 pm

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Mavrelous wrote:
Icarus_prime wrote:Would you guys say that Denver Nuggets have overachieved in this playoffs so far?

They absolutely have, they were outplayed in the 1st 6 games and kept it 3-3 against the Clils, and Thunder were better in every game and Nuggets are up 2-1, text book examlle for what it means to having the best player in the series being a swing factor.


Jokic’s been worse than SGA in the series, though.

18 assists to 21 turnovers for Jokic on bad defense

24 assists to 4 turnovers for SGA on good defense.

Jokic’s cast stepping up has been the difference for them


I wouldn't lend too much to counting stats, Jokic has been better, he won game 1, and while not shooting well he played well withis the offense, and took good shots, SGA hafd some terrible decision making late.
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Post#1203 » by Dadouv47 » Sat May 10, 2025 2:38 pm

MoneyTalks41890 wrote:Wild to still be complaining about the refs after a win. Truly.


I still can't believe the Nuggets fans are acting like we are the Lakers or the Knicks and that the NBA is trying to make us win. This is the worst conspiracy I have ever read on RealGM.
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Post#1204 » by HotRocks34 » Sat May 10, 2025 2:45 pm

Is Denver starting to figure out a game plan against SGA?

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Post#1205 » by Archx » Sat May 10, 2025 2:46 pm

I see OKC fans already doing the same thing they did last season vs Dallas. Would be hilarious if their "best 2way guard" in the league, gets again bounced in the 2nd round by another EU fatso.
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Post#1206 » by Pointgod » Sat May 10, 2025 2:47 pm

ocelot17 wrote:If Denver goes up 3-1, it’s over.


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Post#1207 » by Castle Black » Sat May 10, 2025 2:53 pm

ocelot17 wrote:If Denver goes up 3-1, it’s over.


If Denver loses Game 4 it's over. They're not winning another game in OKC.
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Post#1208 » by scrabbarista » Sat May 10, 2025 3:01 pm

MoneyTalks41890 wrote:Wild to still be complaining about the refs after a win. Truly.


It's not wild to want a fairly called game.
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Post#1209 » by Castle Black » Sat May 10, 2025 3:02 pm

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Post#1210 » by HotRocks34 » Sat May 10, 2025 3:06 pm

Jokic has had the edge over SGA so far in the series down the stretch of both close games.


Game 1 fourth quarter

Jokic.....18/2/1 on 4/6 FGA, +10
SGA.......13/1/1 on 4/7 FGA, -12


Game 3 fourth quarter and OT

Jokic......6/2/1 on 3/8 FGA, +12
SGA........3/3/1 on 1/8 FGA, -12


Not enormous gaps here but in a game decided by 2 points and another game that went to OT, small differences can help determine the outcomes.
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Post#1211 » by kodo » Sat May 10, 2025 3:10 pm

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Post#1212 » by LeBronSpaghetti » Sat May 10, 2025 3:27 pm

MoneyTalks41890 wrote:
Mavrelous wrote:
Icarus_prime wrote:Would you guys say that Denver Nuggets have overachieved in this playoffs so far?

They absolutely have, they were outplayed in the 1st 6 games and kept it 3-3 against the Clils, and Thunder were better in every game and Nuggets are up 2-1, text book examlle for what it means to having the best player in the series being a swing factor.


Jokic’s been worse than SGA in the series, though.

18 assists to 21 turnovers for Jokic on bad defense

24 assists to 4 turnovers for SGA on good defense.

Jokic’s cast stepping up has been the difference for them

Not to be rude but if you think Jokic has been bad defensively this series you don’t know basketball
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Post#1213 » by Mrakar » Sat May 10, 2025 3:27 pm

The only thing that annoys me about this series is the broadcast. How the **** do we get Mark Jones, a registered Nuggets hater, on the call? And it doesn’t bother me that he’s a Nuggets hater — it bothers me that he simply sucks at his job.
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Post#1214 » by og15 » Sat May 10, 2025 3:31 pm

QPR wrote:
MoneyTalks41890 wrote:
Mavrelous wrote:They absolutely have, they were outplayed in the 1st 6 games and kept it 3-3 against the Clils, and Thunder were better in every game and Nuggets are up 2-1, text book examlle for what it means to having the best player in the series being a swing factor.


Jokic’s been worse than SGA in the series, though.

18 assists to 21 turnovers for Jokic on bad defense

24 assists to 4 turnovers for SGA on good defense.

Jokic’s cast stepping up has been the difference for them


That's warped a bit by game two though. Ultimately Jokic has been better in two of the three games (particularly in the clutch), which is all that really matters in the playoffs.

This is definitely not true though


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Man they get away with lot of things. Are they too quick for refs or what?


And Gordon even got a tech for complaining about the first one.

Of course the reality is that fouls get missed. That contest in real time didn't look any sort of obvious foul.

Seeing that it is a foul in a replay or a still shot, I mean, yea, refs wished that's how their eyes work in real life.

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I just really dislike the "look at the replay or still shot, how could the refs miss this" kind of commentary. Those are plays that are so close and depends on angles, etc, that I just don't get the still image and slow motion commentary on calls.

I mean look at he baseline ref, Gordon's arm would be blocking his view, so of course he can't see if Hart contacts from the other side, but will see him hitting the ball. Then there's whether you consider it incidental contact or detrimental contact. Yes of course the player can complain as they felt the foul, but you can always get a tech for that. And of course as fans we can be disappointed they didn't see it, but the idea that it is some sort of incompetence or something is ridiculous.
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Re: 2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Denver Nuggets (DEN leads 2-1) 

Post#1215 » by MoneyTalks41890 » Sat May 10, 2025 3:34 pm

LeBronSpaghetti wrote:
MoneyTalks41890 wrote:
Mavrelous wrote:They absolutely have, they were outplayed in the 1st 6 games and kept it 3-3 against the Clils, and Thunder were better in every game and Nuggets are up 2-1, text book examlle for what it means to having the best player in the series being a swing factor.


Jokic’s been worse than SGA in the series, though.

18 assists to 21 turnovers for Jokic on bad defense

24 assists to 4 turnovers for SGA on good defense.

Jokic’s cast stepping up has been the difference for them

Not to be rude but if you think Jokic has been bad defensively this series you don’t know basketball


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Post#1216 » by eminence » Sat May 10, 2025 3:37 pm

og15 wrote:
QPR wrote:
MoneyTalks41890 wrote:
Jokic’s been worse than SGA in the series, though.

18 assists to 21 turnovers for Jokic on bad defense

24 assists to 4 turnovers for SGA on good defense.

Jokic’s cast stepping up has been the difference for them


That's warped a bit by game two though. Ultimately Jokic has been better in two of the three games (particularly in the clutch), which is all that really matters in the playoffs.

This is definitely not true though


It is though. If you and your team are a tiny bit better in 4 games and way worse in 3 games you win the series and the other team goes home. All there is to it.
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Post#1217 » by KGDirkTD_Fan » Sat May 10, 2025 3:38 pm

I never thought about it until last night but the Murray reverse layups around the basket is such a Murray move for him. He must practice that until it becomes as accurate as a layup. It's easy to forget how good he is around the basket when he's not playing like he's 90
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Post#1218 » by og15 » Sat May 10, 2025 3:40 pm

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That's warped a bit by game two though. Ultimately Jokic has been better in two of the three games (particularly in the clutch), which is all that really matters in the playoffs.

This is definitely not true though


It is though. If you and your team are a tiny bit better in 4 games and way worse in 3 games you win the series and the other team goes home. All there is to it.

I thought the poster was saying that being better particularly in the clutch was all that matters in the playoffs, misunderstood that. Yes, of course, all you need to do as a team (though not as in individual) is to be better in more games than not.

...but it's actually still not true, one teams best player can be better in ALL games and they still lose, so...
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Post#1219 » by bbms » Sat May 10, 2025 3:44 pm

sure the players have a lot to blame for their struggles down the line, but mymain issue with okc is that mark d is not using his best performing players

cason and caruso have both outplayed dort by a sensible margin. dort has been smoked by jamal murray all series long (and he usually has problems vs quicker and nimble guards that get skinny).

obviously hartenstein is having a decent series in many aspects (even though he choked yesterday) but having a non shooter above jaylin williams who has looked fine bugs me too.

at the beginning of the series i thought the problem of being deep is that coach has too many ways to **** it up and it's happening.

yesterday we were terrible at shooting from anywhere. why not betting on a more suffocating perimeter defense that has brought the games to us so often in this series

i don't understand...
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Post#1220 » by Tracymcgoaty » Sat May 10, 2025 3:47 pm

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