That was some next level chucking from the bench. ⁷⁄₃₆ is absolute insane when the two best players attempted only 26 total shots.

as a lakers fan rooting for the wolves tonight watching naz reid is like when the super strong villain joins the good guys and then suddenly becomes complete ass

overall the wolves looks from 3 were not bad at all

As a Wolves fan, do you have any insight into why Gobert wasn’t in at all in the 4th? Its not like the rest of their guys were hitting shots, and felt like OKC was dominating the paint without Gobert in

They need their shit above and beyond put together to have any hope of winning; this OKC team is ridiculous.

I lowkey feel they might’ve had their toughest opponent in Denver already

Honestly we got fantastic looks all night, Donte and Naz were just complete bricks. Felt like once Ant and Jaden got sent to the bench we started forcing things a little more but we can easily steal home court on Thursday just by shooting better and hoping we get a better whistle.

Randle and ANT shot a combined ⁸⁄₁₄ from 3.

Rest of the team was ⁷⁄₃₇

50 3 pts attempts is genuinely unwatchable offense imo. Hated watching the celtics for that reason and watching the wolves tonight was just as putrid

Finch’s logic is that when you’re down just chuck 3s and forget about defense. Who cares if Naz Reid is 1-11 with 4 turnovers

Honestly no idea. Chet was destroying the wolves in the paint and they really could have used him.

As an OKC fan, I’m also really curious. He was matching up really well against Chet

Exactly what I was wondering, Chet dominated the beginning of the fourth, should’ve checked in right then and there

“SGA and NAW are cousins” is this year’s “Jayson Tatum and Matthew Tkachuk went to high school together”

They did a comparison graphic as if they are literally in any way comparable

I can’t believe we have a whole ass series listening to Breen talk to himself 80% of the time and Doris and RJ adding no actual insight.

These are two of the deepest teams in the league (well, the Wolves normally are), fucking show off these players in front of your national audience not just talk about the two stars everyone else knows.

They have literally no synergy on air at all. The game closes in garbage time and there’s long ass fucking pauses while Breen narrates the 3rd stringers. Doris and RJ don’t say shit for a minute before RJ rambles something about “I like how the Thunder closed this game” like you could not say something less insightful and more generic.

Someone get JVG back for this series and ask him what you can do with cousins

36 actually, I mean minnesota did have the record for most missed 3s for like 2 days before the celtics took it

Hey we did it against the Lakers first!

Anthony Edwards absent on and off the court.

I don’t care what defense OKC is throwing at Anthony Edwards and Julius Randle. It’s inexcusable for both of those guys to only attempt 26 total shots while DiVincenzo and NAW played less minutes and had almost the same amount of shots.

Plus the depth of the Thunder really showed.

Real talk: Sam Presti hacked the NBA under the new CBA. I can see why he refuses to give up his picks. He’s going to hoard draft pics to create the dynasty. When it’s time to pay someone he will simply draft someone new

OKC played awful for the first half, but only really pushed into third gear in the second half and blew out the Wolves. This series could get out away from Minny quickly

That’s cause they played an actual championship contender

OKCs historically good defense tends to do that to teams who don’t have a Jokic.

Worst 2nd half I’ve seen in a long time

wait til tomorrow night

Favourite one from the game thread https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1krjh1q/game_thread_minnesota_timberwolves_00_oklahoma/mteukmn/?context=3

Stay classy r/nba

That entire thread was gross. Some of the shit said about the OKC fans were disgusting.

r/nba at halftime was is the most toxic shithole I’ve ever seen on here

There you go.

Even as someone who might be a bit salty towards OKC at the moment, that game thread was wild lol

It’s funny how people swear they don’t condone wishing injuries on players until it’s someone they don’t like lol

Dude was feasting without Rudy in the paint.

I am still so confused why they took Rudy out Chet started to take over with him out of the game

2 blocks, a steal and had 9 straight points for OKC in that final frame over a span of a few minutes. Respect.

I love how Chet’s defense is just him extending his long ass arms between the shooter and the basket, and catching the ball as it inevitably hits his palm

Kenrich Williams gave them such a momentum too in the third

I don’t like overreacting after one game, but Minnesota looked out of their depth when OKC locked in. I don’t see this going past 6. They ACTUALLY have talent to punish the Wolves for playing Gobert and Randle at the same time

Naz is usually such a match up problem for us, that really surprised me. Donte shooting them out of the game doesn’t surprise me at all lol

Nuggets after the first 10 minutes of Game 7.

Least reactionary r/NBA game thread

If you listen to the game thread SGA is literally hitler

They then claimed the game was rigged, not like the Twolves missed 35 threes and like 20 turnovers lol

That’s what they’ve done the whole playoffs during Thunder games. Hella weird

Rnba is never right

Listen the Wolves could still win this series and they could still win the title, but they might be the dumbest good team I’ve ever seen.

hahahah jfc not hyperbole

Why he say ‘fuck me’ for?

Lmao you crazy for this one

A month ago, I said they should put him on ESPN to counter all the Lakers glazing. Didn’t think they’d actually do it!

Bingo

That’s… why I’m here.

Kenrich “Julian Strawther” Williams perfect counter to a Julius Randle legacy game

Nice of you to recognize foul baiting is not basketball

This is the NBA in 2025. Those are the same things

Shai is a foul baiter. Accept it

“The NBA is unwatchable!” they say knowing damn well they’re back tomorrow night 😂

It’s not even the free throw numbers. It’s the complete difference in the way OKC is allowed to defend versus the calls on Wolves. I mean, come on. That’s not why the Wolves lost but don’t be disingenuous 

From the discussion, it seems that the general consensus tonight was that of 2 things:

Wolves played like crap

SGA’s whistle was ridiculous

I mean he’s obviously getting it.. was kind of just stating the obvious

At this point yeah once you realize peoples opinions online dont matter it’s pretty funny

The most hated players on /r/nba

• KD
• Westbrook
• Harden
• SGA

Way to go, OKC.

They had a historically good season and are the heavy favorites to win the title, which took away any goodwill they might have had from neutral fans for being a young team on the rise. Add in all the stuff about SGA’s playstyle and Dort’s defense, and you have a recipe for hate.

Pacers/Knicks got us

he plays just like him, he actually shoots less FT’s than Kobe did in his prime, and most of his haters on here probably rep a Kobe jersey

in all fairness, he was 2 for 13 at the end of the first half

You can very easily tell who’s actually been watching all season and who tuned in over the last month or so

Yup their D is extremely good

SGAdolf is crazy

SGAdolf is actually hilarious 

Imagine an offense not breaking 90 and bitching about the officiating.