2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC WINS 4-1)

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Crikey you guys who wins Game 5??

Thunder win at home and advance to the NBA Finals
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Wolves win on the road and stay alive
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Post#141 » by TheRaptor! » Thu May 29, 2025 1:12 am

Whatt a disgrace, busted your ass all year long for a 9 pt quarter in the conference finals.

I dont want to see the Wolves at this stage ever again
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Post#142 » by EmpireFalls » Thu May 29, 2025 1:12 am

tmorgan wrote:C’MON WOLVES! This is not the Wednesday night entertainment I signed up for. Gonna have to go watch some crappy Amazon fantasy series if you don’t pick it up — wife knows enough about sports to boot me off the TV if the score is lopsided.

I know it’s like mentioning Voldemort, but playoff hockey is really fun. My Carolina Hurricanes making a big fight to stay alive in the series.
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Post#143 » by Domz » Thu May 29, 2025 1:12 am

2nd year in a row where the Wolves got off to a slow start in an elimination game of the WCF. Very disappointing. However, shout out to OKC for not messing around and trying to end this series tonight.
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Post#144 » by Calinks » Thu May 29, 2025 1:12 am

I also can't imagine Haliburton and that Indiana offense getting locked up this badly but maybe OKC is capable.
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Post#145 » by Movics » Thu May 29, 2025 1:13 am

**** losers pissed me off so much that I don’t even want to spark up my J. Disgraceful showing
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Post#146 » by thelead » Thu May 29, 2025 1:13 am

Domejandro wrote:Anthony Edwards, outside of missing a couple threes, is pretty much everything that you could want from him here, but his team sucks.

yeah, I don't get the hate. OKC is running guys at him and he's making the right reads. His teammates need to make open shots... reminds me a lot of Paolo and his teammates bricking open shots. Paolo's just bigger and can get more looks inside.
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Post#147 » by bluemj32 » Thu May 29, 2025 1:13 am

Domejandro wrote:Anthony Edwards, outside of missing a couple threes, is pretty much everything that you could want from him here, but his team sucks.
Yeah Ant came to play. Julius looked like it the first 2mins then it went south for him

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Post#148 » by Archx » Thu May 29, 2025 1:13 am

Finch might empty the bench in the 2nd Q already lol...
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Post#149 » by ___Rand___ » Thu May 29, 2025 1:13 am

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TheRaptor! wrote:Most boring series.

Also, I see no way for the Wolves to improve their team, they've peaked


Conley has to be replaced. They need a scoring shooting PG. Trade Gobert for Luka. LOL.



Darius Garland...no idea how they get that to work though.


Good idea! Three way trade. Gobert to third team and some assets along with Garland back. I would so trade for Nembhard!!! He can play a distributor if you remember the games where Hali couldn't play. He ran the offense. Not sure why Pacers would trade him. not till 27/28 season.
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Post#150 » by Dadouv47 » Thu May 29, 2025 1:13 am

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Dadouv47 wrote:OKC not even that great...just Minny missing everything.
OKC is good. They beat the best Western team besides them in Denver. Give credit where credit is due

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yeah we are good but it wasn't an elite offensive first quarter either. Very good defense but Minny missed a ton.
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Post#151 » by MoneyTalks41890 » Thu May 29, 2025 1:13 am

That’s a wild stat for Shai scored or assisted on 24 of 26 points
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Post#153 » by ArksNetsSince99 » Thu May 29, 2025 1:14 am

doogie_hauser wrote:Even with a healthy Steph, The Warriors would have been also majorally waxed by the Thunder.

The Thunder have been the most talented team in the league for a couple of years now and this is.the season they are going to cash in, like the Celtics last year.

It's a miracle in itself Denver pushed them to 7 games.

No one aside from the Spurs is going to come close to them in the West for the next 5 years.

They have the flexibility (cap space and draft picks) to get better too.

They definitely have Dynasty potential


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Post#154 » by Rubio9Guy » Thu May 29, 2025 1:14 am

Doranku wrote:The Wolves are one of the most unenjoyable teams to watch I've ever seen. Antman has got to get out of there.


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Post#155 » by Domz » Thu May 29, 2025 1:14 am

EmpireFalls wrote:
tmorgan wrote:C’MON WOLVES! This is not the Wednesday night entertainment I signed up for. Gonna have to go watch some crappy Amazon fantasy series if you don’t pick it up — wife knows enough about sports to boot me off the TV if the score is lopsided.

I know it’s like mentioning Voldemort, but playoff hockey is really fun. My Carolina Hurricanes making a big fight to stay alive in the series.

Yeah it's nice to see a team show SOME sort of fight with their playoff lives on the line after getting smacked around earlier on this series.
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Post#156 » by Doranku » Thu May 29, 2025 1:14 am

Calinks wrote:9 point quarter is freaking historic! Might be the most bombastic defensive performance I have seen in a playoff quarter.


The Thunder also held the Nuggets to 8 first quarter points in game 4.
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Post#157 » by Marvin Martian » Thu May 29, 2025 1:14 am

TheRaptor! wrote:Most boring series.

Also, I see no way for the Wolves to improve their team, they've peaked

Rob Dilingham is basically the last hope for the team
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Post#158 » by Movics » Thu May 29, 2025 1:14 am

EmpireFalls wrote:
tmorgan wrote:C’MON WOLVES! This is not the Wednesday night entertainment I signed up for. Gonna have to go watch some crappy Amazon fantasy series if you don’t pick it up — wife knows enough about sports to boot me off the TV if the score is lopsided.

I know it’s like mentioning Voldemort, but playoff hockey is really fun. My Carolina Hurricanes making a big fight to stay alive in the series.

Playoff hockey and baseball are more exciting than playoff basketball
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Post#159 » by PushDaRock » Thu May 29, 2025 1:14 am

MoneyTalks41890 wrote:That’s a wild stat for Shai scored or assisted on 24 of 26 points


He's been the maestro this game
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Post#160 » by Domejandro » Thu May 29, 2025 1:15 am

Calinks wrote:I also can't imagine Haliburton and that Indiana offense getting locked up this badly but maybe OKC is capable.

I give OKC credit where credit is due, but I gotta keep it real, Minnesota is like 1-14 on open shots. :lol:

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