2025 WEST FINALS: (1) Oklahoma City Thunder Vs. (6) Minnesota Timberwolves

Good thing I don't bet on sporting events.

 

Bench guys Naz, Donte and NAW are the difference in the game.

 

OKC’s defense is suffocating

Wolves 34% from the field

 

Shai is an incredible player

 

He is but that was a BS foul

Rocket River

 

Shai is the biggest flopper I have seen in a while, harden is not even close. While I must say that harden knew how to draw fouls and not flop

 

Now it's the T-Wolves' offense that looks like the Rockets, mainly because their bench has been such a failure.

 

@VanityHalfBlack is unfortunately right, sadly the inbreds are winning it all.

Denver was the last hope.

 

The most insane thing is he's worse than even Trae, who was the worst i had ever seen. He really should send his mvp trophy to the refs, they're the ones who earned it.

 

Caruso and Dort
are allow to be the most handsy duo in the league

I was shocked they allowed it again Jokic
Wolves have no shot

Rocket River

 

Ant didn’t show up and was totally outclassed by SGA

18 points in 36 minutes? Only 13 shot attempts?

that’s not very MJ-like

I suspect he won’t get much heat from the media for tonight

 

Wolves 35% from the field, 15-50 from deep, and 17 turnovers

OKC had them in a choke hold defensively

 

Jalen Green agrees.

 

I'll give Ant a pass for game 1, especially because their last game was 6 days ago and their first two opponents were relatively poor defensive teams. The pressure will be on him to adapt in game 2. But besides Randle's insane 4/5 from long range early on, nobody on the T-Wolves was worth a dime on offense. If all OKC has to do is slow down Ant, this series is over.

T-Wolves also must adapt to OKC's length and stop giving up so many idiotic live ball TOs. It isn't like they haven't played them before.

I think game 2 will be different and go down to the wire. This will end up being the worst game of the series IMO.

 

Warriors weren’t a relatively poor defensive team…they were top 10, and the #1 ranked defense post-ASB

I think Warriors beat them in 6 games if Steph didn’t get injured, Wolves haven’t looked all that impressive to me so far this postseason

 

Love Finch saying it’s on him to find a way to get Randle shots in the second half

 

Yeah, Wolves are going to have to up their play by a lot.

Their road to the WCF was against a Lakers team that literally had no center so Gobert looked like prime Shaq and also their best players were Old Man Bron and out of shape fat Luka.

Then went on to play Curry-less Warriors.

If Ant's ankle needs a bit more rest they really should think about sitting him game 2 so that he can be more ready for their home opener.

 

SGA now getting the Harden treatment

Shai doesn’t even get that many free throws to me for a guy who shoots and drives as much as he does…8.7 FTA/game these playoffs

I’m used to MJ, Kobe, Wade, AI, and even guys like Gilbert Arenas and Paul Pierce living at the line averaging 10+ free throws a game…Arenas averaged 11.7 free throws against the Cavs

I remember games Paul Pierce would go 4-20 from the field and have 20 free throws

u couldn’t pass gas around MJ

 

Sorry, I messed up.

OKC's defense is better than the Warriors because while they also focused on jamming the lane, they better contest 3-point shots because of their length and speed on the perimeter. They also generate far more deflections and steals.

When Curry went down, I don't think playing the Warriors helped prepare the T-Wolves for OKC other than giving them a long rest.

IMO, game 1 won't be representative of the series. Ant & Co needed to be smacked in the mouth and game 2 will be much closer. I wouldn't be surprised if this goes to 1-1.