2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 2-0)

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Game 3: Saturday May 24, 8:30pm ET on ABC

Game 2: Thursday May 22, 8:30pm ET on ESPN







Continued from here: https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2459538

[Beethoven]

Would love to see Minn put a Post-Mortem OKC thread up in here..

[tamaraw08]

*I expect Chris Finch to have some changes on how to guard SGA, different looks like Blitzing him or a special zone where they also prevent a baseline lob dunk from Chet.
*I expect DDV, NAW, Conley to have a much better % from the open 3's they will be getting.
*Could be the biggest game adjustment from Ant Edwards regarding his ability to read and react. Although I will not be shocked if he doesn't, because the kid is a freaking 23 year old.
SGA is 26, MJ and Lebron didn't win it all until they were past 27. Kobe won with Shaq on his side.

[LSWF]

McDaniels after the first two rounds was the wolves best player by net rating. If he continues to be limited to 23 minutes per game, this will be a 4 game sweep.

[zshawn10]

Rudy Gobert on the Thunder: “They’re grabbing, fouling. We know that we’re not going to get all those calls.”

https://streamable.com/ittt8v

[Castle Black]

It’s going to get worse imo.

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[Wolfgang630]

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No surprise. Shai isn’t liked with his flopping and has little appeal. Ant keeps getting pushed so hard by ESPN, but he’s an inconsistent player as they come.

[whatisacenter]

The haters are funny.

Thunder are just the better team with a better coach.

[Exp0sed]

I had the Wolves going far this season and I think they would have fared well vs. the other Western top teams but this series is over

OKC is too good and it's defense is too consistent, there's no way the Wolves can generate enough offense to win a 7 games vs the Thunder and they're already down 0-1,that means they to take 4 games out of the next 6 and that's just not happening. Wolves have nothing they can conjure up offensively that can put the Thunder defense under some real pressure and no way to generate consistent, easy offense. their defense is great too, so there will def be stretches in games (or even a whole game) they do a great job in shutting down or limiting the Thunder offense, like we saw in the first half of game 1 but there will also be stretches where they can't (like later in that game) and in those offensive bursts, the Thunder will be up by 12 or 16 and the game would essentially be over

[bledredwine]

It’s going to get worse imo.

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Not surprised. It’s some ugly ass basketball,
at least from the wolves. Who wants to
watch a three point brick fest?

20 points in the paint when your shot is off is awful. Use your damned brain to play the game.

[jkvonny]

It’s going to get worse imo.

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These are 2 small market teams.

Last season, the Dallas Mavericks (big market), were in the WCF vs Minn. Draws in the casual fans.

Also, Kyrie and Luka (international fans) were on the Mavs.

Might have something to do with it.

But, I'm still tuning in.

[MoneyTalks41890]

Purely ESPN/ESPN2 numbers I don’t care about ratings but not sure individual households watching ESPN is all the eyeballs

[Special_Puppy]

Would love to see Minn put a Post-Mortem OKC thread up in here..

Can’t tell what your agenda is

[Patches Perry]

I expect a strong competitive response from Minnesota. They shot poorly from three and shot too many. I expect them to be more aggressive in getting to the rim and to be more disciplined defensively.

Unfortunately, I also expect OKC to let up a bit coming off a win and the MVP festivities today. OKC is tough to beat at home but Minnesota is one team that knows they can do it.

I expect a close one.

[tamaraw08]

It’s going to get worse imo.

Read on Twitter

These are 2 small market teams.

Last season, the Dallas Mavericks (big market), were in the WCF vs Minn. Draws in the casual fans.

Also, Kyrie and Luka (international fans) were on the Mavs.

Might have something to do with it.

But, I'm still tuning in.

how many residents from California, Texas, Boston, Florida are actually watching this series?

[jkvonny]

It’s going to get worse imo.

Read on Twitter

These are 2 small market teams.

Last season, the Dallas Mavericks (big market), were in the WCF vs Minn. Draws in the casual fans.

Also, Kyrie and Luka (international fans) were on the Mavs.

Might have something to do with it.

But, I'm still tuning in.

how many residents from California, Texas, Boston, Florida are actually watching this series?

IDK. But, I'm in TX and watching it.

[tamaraw08]

These are 2 small market teams.

Last season, the Dallas Mavericks (big market), were in the WCF vs Minn. Draws in the casual fans.

Also, Kyrie and Luka (international fans) were on the Mavs.

Might have something to do with it.

But, I'm still tuning in.

how many residents from California, Texas, Boston, Florida are actually watching this series?

IDK. But, I'm in TX and watching it.

So do I who is living in california, but we are actual basketball fans.
I think more are actual Football fans and at the same time, some are homers and casual fans.

[jkvonny]

how many residents from California, Texas, Boston, Florida are actually watching this series?

IDK. But, I'm in TX and watching it.

So do I who is living in california, but we are actual basketball fans.
I think more are actual Football fans and at the same time, some are homers and casual fans.

I hear ya.
Truth

[GopherIt!]

These are 2 small market teams.

Last season, the Dallas Mavericks (big market), were in the WCF vs Minn. Draws in the casual fans.

Also, Kyrie and Luka (international fans) were on the Mavs.

Might have something to do with it.

But, I'm still tuning in.

how many residents from California, Texas, Boston, Florida are actually watching this series?

IDK. But, I'm in TX and watching it.

I’m in CA and watching it.

[The-Stallion70]

Just another game in the NBA 3pt chuckball league