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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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#441 » by Jazz9 » Thu May 29, 2025 2:50 am

Doris can't shut up about Ant
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#442 » by Mamba81p » Thu May 29, 2025 2:50 am

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moss_is_1 wrote:Wolves having zero rotational quality pgs had killed them. Desperately need Rob to be good next year.


We knew that after Game 1 of the season unfortunately. Connelly has to upgrade the position. Mike Conley can be a backup for his last two seasons.

Conley has 1 more year, and they probably have to trade him if they want to pay their Free agents
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Post#443 » by Syd-TK3 » Thu May 29, 2025 2:51 am

Free throw merchant with 34 points on only 4 attempts how pathetic
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#444 » by Mamba Mentality » Thu May 29, 2025 2:51 am

Might be tough to facilitate the trade but the Wolves desperately need KD and I’m sure Ant is going to push the front office to make it happen.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#445 » by Chuck Everett » Thu May 29, 2025 2:51 am

Mamba81p wrote:
Chuck Everett wrote:
moss_is_1 wrote:Wolves having zero rotational quality pgs had killed them. Desperately need Rob to be good next year.


We knew that after Game 1 of the season unfortunately. Connelly has to upgrade the position. Mike Conley can be a backup for his last two seasons.

Conley has 1 more year, and they probably have to trade him if they want to pay their Free agents


Conley has said he wants to play two more years. Maybe his last will be somewhere else.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#446 » by PhilBlackson » Thu May 29, 2025 2:52 am

Twinkie defense wrote:This is horrible - would have been a much better, more competitive matchup vs. Warriors if Stephen Curry wasn't injured.


I still think they would've got smoked, they're too old now to keep up with the pace & intensity OKC plays at.

GSW had tough fights with HOU and there's no one on their roster that sniffs SGA, JDub & Chet would be in argument for HOU's best player if they were on the Rockets nvm the Thunder have WAAAAAY more shooting. Not to mention Playoff Jimmy is a thing of the past.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#447 » by slick_watts » Thu May 29, 2025 2:53 am

nothing unexpected in this series.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#449 » by Wile E. Coyote » Thu May 29, 2025 2:53 am

Mamba Mentality wrote:Might be tough to facilitate the trade but the Wolves desperately need KD and I’m sure Ant is going to push the front office to make it happen.


I don’t think KD has the mentality any longer to really compete for rings. I think he’s probably happy with his two.
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Post#450 » by PhilBlackson » Thu May 29, 2025 2:53 am

Syd-TK3 wrote:Free throw merchant with 34 points on only 4 attempts how pathetic


Thought you were talking about the player with the most FT attempts in the Playoffs this year....JALEN BRUNSON.
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#451 » by canada_dry » Thu May 29, 2025 2:55 am

SGA treated that matchup with Edwards the same way MJ did with Drexler.

Annihilation.

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

Post#452 » by bisme37 » Thu May 29, 2025 2:55 am

Congrats Thunder fans! Your team played an awesome series, good luck in the Finals
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC WINS 4-1) 

Post#453 » by NotaHypeJob » Thu May 29, 2025 2:55 am

Doris trying to sell us on OKC Indiana Finals. Stop, we're spending time with our families instead
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC leads 3-1) 

Post#454 » by Kawaii Leonard » Thu May 29, 2025 2:57 am

Anthony Edwards is only 23 and this okc team is a generational group on paper. Presti is a mad lad. Was a gents sweep but nothing to hang your heads Wolves fans. I still enjoyed the series regardless of the gap. Would love to see Ant working more on his mid range, post up though.
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Post#455 » by durden_tyler » Thu May 29, 2025 2:57 am

LOL NBA. Late 3 for the Wolves to cover the +31.5 spread.


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Post#456 » by Doranku » Thu May 29, 2025 2:58 am

Rudy Gobert was Minnesota's highest paid player this year (2nd highest payroll in the NBA). He averaged 6/6/1 in the WCF. $43 million earned on the season.

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Post#457 » by MN7725 » Thu May 29, 2025 2:58 am

Kawaii Leonard wrote:Anthony Edwards is only 23 and this okc team is a generational group on paper. Presti is a mad lad. Was a gents sweep but nothing to hang your heads Wolves fans. I still enjoyed the series regardless of the gap. Would love to see Ant working more on his mid range, post up though.


he had a mid-range and post game when KAT was on the team and there was space

his post up game last playoffs was where the whole "ANT is MJ's son" stuff started...
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC WINS 4-1) 

Post#458 » by durden_tyler » Thu May 29, 2025 2:58 am

NotaHypeJob wrote:Doris trying to sell us on OKC Indiana Finals. Stop, we're spending time with our families instead

Yeah, that match-up has no appeal to dumb casuals so i understand where you’re coming from.


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Post#459 » by baller16 » Thu May 29, 2025 2:59 am

Scary thing about OKC big 3 is that they're all elite defenders and they'll get even better offensively. Might be a future dynasty we're looking at
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC WINS 4-1) 

Post#460 » by canada_dry » Thu May 29, 2025 2:59 am

Everything i said about julius Randle was correct..a spastic with awful body language when things don't go his way. Ya'll were getting tricked in the 1st two rounds.

He is who we thought he was.

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