2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West Semifinals: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Denver Nuggets (OKC leads 3-2)

[tmorgan]

OKC has the typical young elite team that has 0 guys with the dog in them. Shai is a great mvp caliber player, but needs some guys that play with fire.

Giannis would be great on the team. Chet + stuff would get it done too.

They would be crazy to trade Chet for Giannis IMO. The age gap is far too wide

Ehhhh…. given what we know about both players, I’m not sure the odds are significantly in Chet’s favor to play more regular season games from this day forward. I’d give him a slight edge and bet his side if forced, but you know damn well he’s fragile.

[BigGargamel]

If Denver can simply keep it even during these non-Jokic minutes they got this. Hopefully he can rest until 8 minutes left.

Jokic will start and play the whole 4th

Surprised to see him in there. I guess this game is must win enough that they aren't pushing their luck.

[MoneyTalks41890]

Honestly call lane violations or don’t. I hate how it just gets called as an excuse for something else or not at all.

[levon]

Two interesting defensive trends: defenders wrap their hand around waists a lot more. I used to see AD and Draymond do that a lot, but now it's so common. The second one is sneakily pushing a guy midair into your defender playing verticality.

[Mr. Perfect]

Caruso has been OKC's MVP this series.

[ArksNetsSince99]

If Denver can simply keep it even during these non-Jokic minutes they got this. Hopefully he can rest until 8 minutes left.

Jokic will start and play the whole 4th

Surprised to see him in there. I guess this game is must win enough that they aren't pushing their luck.

This is the right decision

[MoneyTalks41890]

Two interesting defensive trends: defenders wrap their hand around waists a lot more. I used to see AD and Draymond do that a lot, but now it's so common. The second one is sneakily pushing a guy midair into your defender playing verticality.

Both need to get called out of the game

[JM00n69]

If Denver can simply keep it even during these non-Jokic minutes they got this. Hopefully he can rest until 8 minutes left.

Jokic will start and play the whole 4th

Here we go

[Handlez]

Not shooting foul wtf

[MelTurpin]

the difference in talent is so massive someone like cason wallace would be our 4th best player and he is like their 7 or 8th cred to presti for his drafting and putting together that team and **** booth forever

It's a lot harder putting a team together when you're drafting at the bottom of the draft every year. Booth had a couple good hits late in the draft -- Braun and Watson. And the jury is still out on Strawther, who's at least giving them some minutes tonight.

[Ice Trae]

Westbrick lol

[Mk0]

Russ. jfc dude.

[scrabbarista]

Whaaaa....?

Shooting foul?

Oh crap, refs.

Please, don't.

[Darklight]

Can't convince me that the Nuggets have a good roster overall. Their bench is absolutely abysmal and three of their starters are wildly inconsistent.

Only the casuals argue otherwise, but in reality the reason why the do that and try to gaslight Jokic fans into thinking that's what a good roster looks like. They are simply terrfied what would happend if he even had a semi competent team. Imagine giving him celtics, cavs or this OKC roster Not that he needs that much talent around him lol

[CKB]

Westbrick airball again

[CIN-C-STAR]

Caruso has one of the worst whistles. He got obliterated on that last drive to the rack.

There you go he got the makeup call lol

[JM00n69]

Jokic will start and play the whole 4th

Surprised to see him in there. I guess this game is must win enough that they aren't pushing their luck.

This is the right decision

He's not looking tired, why sit him

[Handlez]

Westbrook lol

[Tor_Raps]

Westbrook is costing them man

[Cubbies2120]

Lmao Westbrick back in action

Sadly better than MPJ rn