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

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Who wins?

Poll ended at Fri May 23, 2025 7:44 pm

Thunder in 4
16
19%
Thunder in 5
33
39%
Thunder in 6
19
23%
Thunder in 7
4
5%
Wolves in 5
3
4%
Wolves in 6
8
10%
Wolves in 7
1
1%
 
Total votes: 84

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

Post#421 » by MoneyTalks41890 » Fri May 23, 2025 2:30 am

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Dadouv47 wrote:Shai had more open 2's so far in this series than in the entire Nuggets series


Curious why you think it has played out this way? Denver had a bottom third defense all season, but looked pretty impressive against the Clippers and OKC


Denver’s zone packed the middle of the floor where Shai loves to operate
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 1-0) 

Post#422 » by 76ciology » Fri May 23, 2025 2:30 am

You can’t afford to have weak endurance when trying to run good offense against the Thunder. It’s tough, but you have to stay disciplined, limit turnovers and focus on getting high quality shots. That’s how the Nuggets manage to stay in the game. More often than not, OKC wears teams down by the end of the third quarter, then goes on one of those signature scoring runs they’re known for.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 1-0) 

Post#423 » by Chuck Everett » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

guynumber45 wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:Shai had more open 2's so far in this series than in the entire Nuggets series


Curious why you think it has played out this way? Denver had a bottom third defense all season, but looked pretty impressive against the Clippers and OKC


Christian Braun was very disciplined defensively on Shai. After game 1, he basically never bit on the pump fakes and tried to wall him up.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 1-0) 

Post#424 » by azcatz11 » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

___Rand___ wrote:This might be a sweep. Maybe 5 games max.


Only shot they have is game 3 realistically
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Post#425 » by f4p » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

It doesn't really seem marginal since it made dort lose the ball on the way up.
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Post#427 » by ballzboyee » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

bbms wrote:shai is kobe if kobe was an efficient shooter


Kobe was an efficient shooter. He had the same rTS% as Duncan who everybody has on here as top 5 player on here. I guess Duncan wasn't efficient.
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Post#428 » by ___Rand___ » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

I'm thinking since Pacers came back, maybe Wolves can. But who am I kidding.
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Post#429 » by CS707 » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

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Mk0 wrote:SGA has a cousin?


Seems like we’d have heard about it by now if it was true.


Nickeil Alexander Walker from Minnesota is his cousin


Wut!?! Huge missed opportunity for the broadcast not to mention this 400 times already.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 1-0) 

Post#430 » by Raps in 4 » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

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Mk0 wrote:SGA has a cousin?


Seems like we’d have heard about it by now if it was true.
Y'all joking?

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

Post#431 » by sfernald » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

They’ve done these late third quarter blowout runs all year. There’s a reason they basically won 70 games.
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Post#432 » by WeLikeOurGuys » Fri May 23, 2025 2:31 am

Why the heck does Minnesota have Divincenzo and Walker Alexander running the offense? It’s maddening because Ant doesn’t even touch the ball sometimes.
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Post#434 » by CelticSooner » Fri May 23, 2025 2:32 am

How about them Lakers huh? Just another indictment on them woof
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Post#435 » by GeorgeSears » Fri May 23, 2025 2:32 am

After watching the Nuggets series, I did not expect the TWolves to get run over like this even on the road. I'm genuinely shocked at how badly the TWolves are getting ripped apart. Especially on defense.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 1-0) 

Post#436 » by f4p » Fri May 23, 2025 2:32 am

76ciology wrote:You can’t afford to have weak endurance when trying to run good offense against the Thunder. It’s tough, but you have to stay disciplined, limit turnovers and focus on getting high quality shots. That’s how the Nuggets manage to stay in the game. More often than not, OKC wears teams down by the end of the third quarter, then goes on one of those signature scoring runs they’re known for.


Right now OKC has something like a -15 defense in these playoffs. The 2004 pistons were -12. This defense is even crazier than the regular season (and the overall playoffs are only about 1.5 pp100 lower than the regular season ).
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 1-0) 

Post#437 » by bbms » Fri May 23, 2025 2:32 am

76ciology wrote:You can’t afford to have weak endurance when trying to run good offense against the Thunder. It’s tough, but you have to stay disciplined, limit turnovers and focus on getting high quality shots. That’s how the Nuggets manage to stay in the game. More often than not, OKC wears teams down by the end of the third quarter, then goes on one of those signature scoring runs they’re known for.


sorry brother but if i was to manage a team tomorrow to beat the thunder i'm just focusing on defense
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 1-0) 

Post#439 » by CIN-C-STAR » Fri May 23, 2025 2:33 am

Sort getting the superstar call lol
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 1-0) 

Post#440 » by _AIJ_ » Fri May 23, 2025 2:33 am

HOW THE **** WAS THAT A FOUL???
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