2025 West Semifinals: (1) Oklahoma City Thunder Vs. (4) Denver Nuggets

OKC just made all the right plays down the stretch and their bench is way better. Nuggets starters got fatigued in the 4th again.

 

OKC should be better but they deserve to win

OKC vs Knicks or Pacers is a great finals

 

Nuggets making the same mistake of not resting Jokic and Murray. I know their depth is thin, but a little rest will go a long way towards better efficiency.

 

Clippers should have won if they were smarter and the key guys pulled it out.

 

NBA reporters always pulling that **** where they expect the star to deep throat the other team's star "What do you think of Jokic's numbers tonight"

SGA was like eff off b!tch

 

This was seriously just Jokic trying to drag the Nuggets carcass to a win in the 4th.

 

Jokic needs to leave Denver ASAP. They are straight up just wasting his talent. If Jokic had an actual allstar caliber guard we would be talking about multiple championships.

I say keep Braun and Gordon but Murray and MPJ need to go. You pair Jokic with someone more consistent and get an actual point guard.

 

Yet again, the Nuggets ran out of gas in the 4th quarter. They played 8 guys, but only 3 showed up. MPJ, Braun, Westbrick, Peyton Watson gave them nothing.

Dort's 3-point mini-explosion turned this game around. Once his third 3 brought OKC within two, it was pretty clear the Nuggets couldn't finish.

This is a playoff series where depth was clearly the determining factor.

Thursday night, I expect the Nuggets to put up a strong fight for at least 2-3 quarters, but OKC will advance if they aren't scared of the moment.

 

Clippers fans in Reddit are moaning and groaning about Westbrook. Last year in the playoffs, he was worse than terrible for them but ended up scorching them in the 1st round this year. LOL, then he morphs right back into master bricklayer mode against the Nuggets.

 

So TNT speaking on Fatigue in the 4th… for Denver … reminds me of my thread about Ime defensive energy requirement and our shooting being tied to it…specially FTs

 

Murray was no help down the stretch. He made only one basket in the 4th quarter.

 

They wouldn't have built the cushion in the first and third. It is all for nothing anyways.

No bench, Porter was a zero, Gordon here and there.

 

I think this goes to 7. Fun series.

 

Knicks? Pacers? Wolves? Damn those Oklahoma trailer trash inbreds are definitely winning it all.

 

Out coached, hopefully people who thought Malone was the issue are seeing how Adelman is “using” that great bench they supposedly had and were held back by Malone. MPJ clearly not right so should’ve shown more faith in bench guys, though a competent GM would’ve given them a better bench. Didn’t help they got some bullshit fouls against them, but nothing that egregious to blame them.

 

But he was looking like Steph Lite for several games and last series

We have Dort on our team . .. we call him J.Tate

and sometimes looks like he can't miss . . ..

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I always thought the Altitude of Denver gave them a bit of an advantage as far as stamina

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