2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC WINS 4-1)
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Re: 2025 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #6 Minnesota Timberwolves (OKC WINS 4-1)
Jadoogar wrote:Minnesota got the easy side of the bracket and got schelacked against a proper team. Back to back wcfs is great but they shouldn't rest on their laurels. Houston is coming. Lakers will likely improve their roster. Denver is still denver
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There was an article today that talked about how Sam Presti trading Rashard Lewis back in the day started everythingdurden_tyler wrote:PhilBlackson wrote:The Thunder should build a statue outside for the man who deserves all the credit for potentially making them a dynasty....
PAUL GEORGE
Thank you for allowing the Thunder to not only get a league MVP but enough draft picks to create the most stacked roster for the next decade and possibly all time.
Salute Podcast P! I'm sure you'll get your flowers in Philly /greenfonti hope fans continue to pile up on him, these scammers should be called out and the latest scam of course is that large contract with Philly.
On how this OKC team is built, George is tops to blame/credit but there are others that allowed them to build this roster (Giddey is good but will never be a superstar and a bad fit). i wonder aside from Chicago, Los Angeles and New York (Hartenstein) which other teams can we blame/credit for what could be a budding dynasty in OKC.
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PhilBlackson wrote:Capn'O wrote:I think y'all are underestimating Indy but okc are major favorites.
Hmmm only to an extent.
I do think they'll be more competitive than MIN but I think DEN was the toughest matchup OKC will have faced when it's all said and done because of course Jokic is HIM and Jamal and Gordon were huge. Hali is great but he's no Jokic and I think Gordon's strength really helped him against Chet, Siakam won't have that same strength advantage and Turner doesn't eat up board like Jok. Hali doesn't score at the level Jok does for the most part and Murray was an outside threat, Siakam isn't.
I'm actually predicting a TOUGH series for Pascal because much of his game is getting to the basket and ofc OKC swarms players trying to drive and Chet's length is gonna disrupt a lot of his shots. Not to mention Hali will not be bombing away on midget Brunson or Garland...Caruso & Wallace are pressure tfo him. It's gonna be a VERY different matchup from anything they've seen all Playoffs.
Nonetheless I do think they'll fare better than the Wolves because they are more of a team but in the end, I think the Nuggets will have been the Thunder's biggest test this post season but we'll see...
My post was more directed at posters thinking this would be a steamrolling. I think it'll be a fun series and mostly close.
Your assessment isn't that far off from mine. I think OKC will ultimately have too many weapons on both ends for Indy. I also thought Denver would be their biggest challenge going in. They are least equipped to handle a dominant big. I probably give a little more credit to Indy's system because I underestimated it coming into our series.
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Not a 51+ win team in sight and they have the golden whistle with multiple all stars.
Easiest road to the finals in the 2020s
Easiest road to the finals in the 2020s
NiceLikeChrist wrote:We are going to deeply regret this. We traded away the best player in the trade and still had to give up a great role player AND a pick?
so many people are going to eat their words about randle
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Props to the Thunder. If they finish this off, they will definitely go down as an all-time team. I think Minny needs to do something fairly big. Back-to-back WCFs but they've always felt like a pretender. I don't think you can be a true title threat with Randle as your 2, especially if your 1 isn't a Tier 1 guy.
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NiceLikeChrist wrote:Not a 51+ win team in sight and they have the golden whistle with multiple all stars.
Easiest road to the finals in the 2020s
Why 51?
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canada_dry wrote:It has the risk of being a quick finals. Once again.durden_tyler wrote: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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Yeah, Indy will run the Thunder off the court in a hurry if they aren't ready.
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NotaHypeJob wrote:Doris trying to sell us on OKC Indiana Finals. Stop, we're spending time with our families instead
Agreed. After the Luka trade, I thought we were finally getting our Lakers-Celtics finals. **** Adam Silver for letting both of those teams lose. They didn't deserve to go out when they did.
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Raps in 4 wrote:NotaHypeJob wrote:Doris trying to sell us on OKC Indiana Finals. Stop, we're spending time with our families instead
Agreed. After the Luka trade, I thought we were finally getting our Lakers-Celtics finals. **** Adam Silver for letting both of those teams lose. They didn't deserve to go out when they did.
So you want the league to cheat?
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RRR3 wrote:Raps in 4 wrote:NotaHypeJob wrote:Doris trying to sell us on OKC Indiana Finals. Stop, we're spending time with our families instead
Agreed. After the Luka trade, I thought we were finally getting our Lakers-Celtics finals. **** Adam Silver for letting both of those teams lose. They didn't deserve to go out when they did.
So you want the league to cheat?
It's not cheating if no one finds out.
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Ssj16 wrote:Based on history, in expecting the game to be close probably until the 3rd then Thunder blows Minny out.
Oops looks like I was wrong It was only close for the first 4 minutes of the game.
Congrats OKC!
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Raps in 4 wrote:RRR3 wrote:Raps in 4 wrote:
Agreed. After the Luka trade, I thought we were finally getting our Lakers-Celtics finals. **** Adam Silver for letting both of those teams lose. They didn't deserve to go out when they did.
So you want the league to cheat?
It's not cheating if no one finds out.





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Raps in 4 wrote:RRR3 wrote:Raps in 4 wrote:
Agreed. After the Luka trade, I thought we were finally getting our Lakers-Celtics finals. **** Adam Silver for letting both of those teams lose. They didn't deserve to go out when they did.
So you want the league to cheat?
It's not cheating if no one finds out.
David Stern would've approved this message.
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NiceLikeChrist wrote:Not a 51+ win team in sight and they have the golden whistle with multiple all stars.
Easiest road to the finals in the 2020s
2023 Nuggets
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levon wrote:NiceLikeChrist wrote:Not a 51+ win team in sight and they have the golden whistle with multiple all stars.
Easiest road to the finals in the 2020s
2023 Nuggets
Lol, there is no way Nuggets run to the finals was easier than Boston's last year.
Some of you Jokic Haters/Denver haters need some serious therapy.
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Bank Shot wrote:Props to the Thunder. If they finish this off, they will definitely go down as an all-time team. I think Minny needs to do something fairly big. Back-to-back WCFs but they've always felt like a pretender. I don't think you can be a true title threat with Randle as your 2, especially if your 1 isn't a Tier 1 guy.
The Wolves were the real deal last year and would've challenged the Celtics. Lively overachieving on the offensive glass in the clutch in the first 2 games of the WCF swung the series and quite possibly the direction of the Wolves franchise.
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damn its over by the 1st QTR
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