Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Minnesota Timberwolves	22	31	23	27	103
Oklahoma City Thunder	23	24	33	36	116

Team	PTS	FG	FG%	3P	3P%	FT	FT%	OREB	TREB	AST	PF	STL	TO	BLK
Minnesota Timberwolves	103	36-76	47.4%	15-33	45.5%	16-22	72.7%	7	57	18	19	5	22	5
Oklahoma City Thunder	116	42-101	41.6%	15-40	37.5%	17-19	89.5%	15	51	28	16	16	7	6


Minnesota Timberwolves	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Jaden McDaniels^SF	16:08	2	1-3	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	4	-17
Julius Randle^PF	35:21	32	11-18	3-5	7-8	2	5	7	6	0	1	1	4	-5
Rudy Gobert^C	28:32	2	1-4	0-0	0-0	1	6	7	2	1	0	4	1	-23
Anthony Edwards^SG	37:19	19	6-17	2-5	5-10	1	5	6	5	1	1	6	5	-7
Donte DiVincenzo^PG	29:39	16	6-9	4-7	0-0	0	9	9	1	0	0	1	1	-7
Ayo Dosunmu	32:30	18	7-9	4-5	0-0	0	4	4	0	0	0	2	1	-3
Naz Reid	28:07	6	1-5	0-3	4-4	1	3	4	0	2	0	4	3	-4
Kyle Anderson	12:09	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	3	5	0	1	0	2	0	-2
Bones Hyland	13:11	3	1-5	1-4	0-0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	-9
Terrence Shannon Jr.	01:46	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Joe Ingles	01:46	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Jaylen Clark	01:46	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Rocco Zikarsky	01:46	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
Mike Conley	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joan Beringer	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Enrique Freeman	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Julian Phillips	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zyon Pullin	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma City Thunder	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Luguentz Dort^SF	17:39	3	0-4	0-2	3-4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	-6
Chet Holmgren^PF	32:13	21	9-13	1-4	2-2	3	6	9	2	3	1	0	2	23
Isaiah Hartenstein^C	20:35	0	0-3	0-0	0-0	4	8	12	3	0	2	1	3	13
Ajay Mitchell^SG	26:46	11	4-13	1-4	2-2	3	2	5	3	2	0	2	1	1
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander^PG	33:14	20	7-22	2-4	4-5	1	2	3	10	2	1	1	3	3
Alex Caruso	21:46	17	6-10	1-3	4-4	1	1	2	1	3	0	0	0	-3
Cason Wallace	25:15	4	1-4	0-0	2-2	2	4	6	7	3	2	0	1	11
Jaylin Williams	18:35	5	2-7	1-5	0-0	1	2	3	2	1	0	2	2	-2
Aaron Wiggins	05:32	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	-11
Jared McCain	17:14	15	5-10	5-9	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	13
Isaiah Joe	21:11	20	8-14	4-8	0-0	0	4	4	0	0	0	1	2	23
Payton Sandfort	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenrich Williams	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brooks Barnhizer	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Branden Carlson	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thomas Sorber	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nikola Topić	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jalen Williams	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

thro14away

648 | 5 hours ago

Chris Finch’s therapist about to earn that money

According-Dig-4667 | Thunder

183 | 5 hours ago

This press conference bouta be crazy

jataba115 | OKC

28 | 3 hours ago

It was crazy

Leavingtheecstasy | Thunder

67 | 4 hours ago

“And he still scored 20….”

Curly_Toes | Raptors

530 | 5 hours ago

Jared McCain just turned into prime Steph for like 3 minutes. His offball movement is so awesome.

SeaCounter9516 | Thunder

167 | 4 hours ago

The offball movement is a thing of beauty. Just a fantastic player

Rotatos | Knicks

100 | 4 hours ago

“Don’t worry we sold high” daryl tweets from his burner

Logiteck77

19 | 4 hours ago

Daryl Morey’s lies continue.

RL_Stine_

41 | 4 hours ago

I didnt watch much McCain last year but hes pretty good, huh? I love that he has handles and can create.

Proof-Umpire-7718 | Lakers

68 | 4 hours ago

Yeah he was the favourite for ROTY last season before suffering a season ending injury in December.

That’s why it’s so baffling that Morey essentially gave up on him after a rough pre-trade deadline season where he waa returning from a major injury.

Sure he was awful at times, but the potential was still there based on the previous season and the circumstances around his struggles this season.

Ok_Possible_5702

16 | 4 hours ago

I don’t know how much Daryl Morey gave up on him, and how much he realized that his backcourt will be Maxey+VJ going forward, and McCain is not taking the starting spot from either of them.

There are several teams in the league where McCain would be a starter. And the guy deserves the chance to get starting-level minutes (~25 MPG). But Philly doesn’t have the roster for that.

popop143 | Celtics

31 | 3 hours ago

Honestly the trade would’ve been fine if Morey wasn’t so smug about “selling high”. Could’ve just said he wanted McCain to get the playing time he deserves that he won’t get with Maxey and VJ on the team, so a trade was a no-brainer. Instead he had to show how “good” he is of a trader and say shit like that.

MixonWitDaWrongCrowd | Thunder

13 | 3 hours ago

When Presti calls you, hang up

goatmarino | Thunder

9 | 4 hours ago

What was morey smoking ?

C_moneySmith | Timberwolves

483 | 5 hours ago

ESPN needs to take Doris Burke out to the woodshed

libertydabbing | OKC

230 | 5 hours ago

New plan to stop tanking: force the 28th-30th placed teams to have Austin Rivers and Doris Burke call 30 of their games a year, and it has to be played through the arena speakers

LowRune | Thunder

42 | 4 hours ago

fuck it, give em IEMs. Doris in the left ear, Austin in the right

Tidoux | France

11 | 4 hours ago

That’s going too far, they are tanking teams not criminals

Calm_Ad_1258 | Thunder

115 | 5 hours ago

why is she back bruh I thought she got fired

LoudCityDub

53 | 5 hours ago

Only from the finals

griwulf | Thunder

29 | 4 hours ago

demoted not fired

dreadpirateruss | Thunder

28 | 4 hours ago

Nothing brings rival fans together like acknowledging how bad Doris is.

goodguybrian | Thunder

79 | 4 hours ago

She doesn’t know how to be neutral. The previous time when thunder were on prime time, she just kept bashing on SGA. This game she kept slurping SGA.

dreadpirateruss | Thunder

48 | 4 hours ago

Last season she was calling him Free Throw Merchant like it was a cool nickname. I think for a while she genuinely didn’t realize it was supposed to be an insult.

youjuanfrieswiththat | Thunder

60 | 4 hours ago

Praying she doesn’t call any OKC playoff games this year

Ronnie2kDropCode | Knicks

41 | 4 hours ago

She’s so awful

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

31 | 4 hours ago

We can agree with you she waffles way too much just let us watch the game bruh she tries way too hard to be modern

C_moneySmith | Timberwolves

22 | 4 hours ago

At one point Dave Pasch quoted Chris Finch directly about Kyle Anderson and then Doris said virtually the same thing right after and acted like it was her analysis of Kyle and not just saying Finch’s words again.

SeaCounter9516 | Thunder

17 | 4 hours ago

She forces fucking everything man. Like the bank being closed on sundays. She had to say that dumb shit like 4 times just to make sure we heard it

ScottFostersParlay | Lakers

10 | 4 hours ago

Shes probably a top 1% commentor on this sub then.

SnowballOfFear | Hornets

17 | 5 hours ago

Absolutely turrible

wcooper97 | OKC

14 | 4 hours ago

She forgot how to pronounce so many of our guys’ names too lol

Mark “Daig-no”

“Cay-sahn” Wallace

Like wtf

SquidwardLover48 | Cavaliers

450 | 5 hours ago

Daryl morey is not seeing the pearly gates

8-God

38 | 4 hours ago

top banter

minnyman2011 | Wizards

18 | 4 hours ago

Nothing banter about it

Chidi_Ariana_Grande | Timberwolves

438 | 5 hours ago

Fuck you Daryl Morey

Luciolover345 | Thunder

220 | 4 hours ago

He’s responsible for 35 points in 38 minutes off the bench. OKC’s mvp

Thrayvsar | Thunder

64 | 4 hours ago

Kind of unfair that the Thunder have 2 GMs

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

97 | 5 hours ago

He rocks in think he should trade with us more

Suspicious-Nobody744

69 | 5 hours ago

Maybe we’ll get Tyrese maxey for a bag of chips next

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

30 | 4 hours ago

Tbf we helped them get him

ekray | Spurs

71 | 5 hours ago

He is a liar and I hate him.

Due-Benefit-2409

20 | 5 hours ago

Fire Morey

CochonDanseur | Timberwolves

16 | 4 hours ago

Me personally, I will never play for an organization he’s involved with.

JumboHotdogz | Thunder

33 | 4 hours ago

Lost in all this but I believed you also fleeced the Bulls for Ayo. A really solid piece

Chidi_Ariana_Grande | Timberwolves

12 | 4 hours ago

That’s true!

AynB1and | Thunder

21 | 4 hours ago

morey’s a swell guy

purplenyellowrose909 | Timberwolves

11 | 4 hours ago

The main takeaway from this game

Cpt-No-Dick | Thunder

350 | 5 hours ago

I still can’t believe we got McCain for free

ilikekittens2018 | Nuggets

176 | 5 hours ago

I think Philly fans finally have an excuse to be so insane now this would drive me crazy

IncaseAce | Thunder

66 | 4 hours ago

Team hasn’t been the same since the trade deadline it seems

Lotta injuries but still

ilikekittens2018 | Nuggets

33 | 4 hours ago

Friend of mine is a Philly fan, tried to convince me they’re coming out of the east this year. I just had to stare at him tbh.

Krillin113 | 76ers

8 | 3 hours ago

The 15 games before the deadline I seriously had 15% faith in that. We were winning games without PG, vibes were immaculate, Embiid was putting up 30 points in 30 minutes again.

Then we traded McCain, Embiid got injured, Maxey got injured, PG still suspended and we’re hobbling to the ⁹⁄₁₀ seed. Fuck all this.

Majestic-Pickle5097

8 | 4 hours ago

It would absolutely piss me off. Seeing him continue to get comfortable as well. He could have easily hit 10-11 threes today if they wanted to feature him more.

That’s like having prime Klay Thompson running off screens and hitting shit all day. That is demoralizing, I know as a Thunder fan.

Ok-Manufacturer-3610

58 | 5 hours ago

Teams gotta stop taking trades with your GM. They could trade SGA and Sam presti would somehow win the trade

ilikekittens2018 | Nuggets

33 | 4 hours ago

SGA for Wemby, Castle, and 4 picks is the type of deal Presti would pull off in his sleep

Yakhan114

19 | 4 hours ago

and then he’d trade chet to get sga back

Opulescence | Thunder

13 | 4 hours ago

It’s only free because we have so many picks.

1 first and 3 seconds is a lot for most teams lol.

Kevinar | Knicks

9 | 4 hours ago

A steal, a fleece, a great trade but he wasn’t free

itsnotyellowfever | MEM

337 | 5 hours ago

OKC thrives on two things:

The most unwavering offensive consistency from a star player in the league (SGA).
An almost 100% success rate in ruining the game of the opposing team’s best player(s) in some form - they guarantee you don’t have a better game than Shai no matter how off Shai might be that day.

The Wolves successfully threw SGA off his game because of Ant’s big game defense, traps, and whispers a lot of uncalled fouls and very little OKC did slowed down Randle from scoring at will.

SGA still got his 20. He made every defensive play he possibly could even on a terrible offensive afternoon. The Thunder still won by double digits. Ant was worse than Shai but it went under the radar because the 20-game streak was at the most risk it’s ever been.

It is going to take perfection and then some to take this Thunder team down.

EarthWarping | NBA

190 | 5 hours ago

Zach Lowe was right, OKC is kinda going on a streak to remind the NBA theyre the best team.

Majestic-Pickle5097

75 | 4 hours ago

Doing without a legit All-Star in Dub as well. That’s the scary part bc he’s a problem

couchtomato62 | Warriors

35 | 4 hours ago

They actually had 4 regular starters today. They need j dub back before the playoffs and to get that chemistry back.

Also where do they find these players. . Mitchell and McCain

My team needs their scouting team.

Aggravating_Bad5004 | Thunder

12 | 4 hours ago

Thanks Philly

RoxerSoxer | Thunder

5 | 4 hours ago

2nd round gambles and GMs we have blackmail on

HitboxOfASnail | Thunder

11 | 4 hours ago

had a rough patch pre all star with half the team in the hospital and people were ready to throw a parade

royalewlthcheese | Australia

131 | 5 hours ago

This game kinda showed why Shai is a tier above Ant.

They were both inefficient shooting the ball but Shai still impacted the game offensively with his playmaking… while Ant had 7 turnovers

Amazinc | Minneapolis Lakers

49 | 4 hours ago

As a wolves fan until his playmaking improves and he can learn to help out better when his shot isn’t falling he can’t be on the same tier

AynB1and | Thunder

24 | 4 hours ago

nice flair, fellow wolves fan!

cootscoot | Thunder

59 | 5 hours ago

Dante’s defense was more the issue. That’s the best I’ve seen Shai guarded all season

itsnotyellowfever | MEM

36 | 5 hours ago

Ant, Randle, Gobert, DiVincenzo - I could’ve thrown whoever in there because they all defended their asses off when left in a 1-on-1 with him

BaddadBedTimeStories | Thunder

38 | 4 hours ago

this might be the best nutshelling of why this team is so fucking hard to beat by another fan, kudos.

AbbreviationsOk8502 | Spurs

21 | 4 hours ago

very upset we don’t get to play OKC one more time before the playoffs, feel like both of our teams have looked so different post all-star and would love the guys to get the experience

WaltofWallstreet | Thunder

14 | 4 hours ago

Going to be one hell of a playoff series if they meet

ChetsBurner | Thunder

12 | 4 hours ago

Low-key pleased the Spurs haven’t seen our full lineups yet. They might get a shock come playoffs.

EdCsc

8 | 4 hours ago

Same, I feel OKC is only getting better and we have JDub to comeback, but Spurs are also playing much better i think

turnip_broker | West

8 | 4 hours ago

Thunders bench saved them

AynB1and | Thunder

11 | 4 hours ago

isn’t that why benches exist?

TuqiDuque12 | Pistons

281 | 5 hours ago

The scary development for the rest of the league is Daignault being willing to actually go away from Dort when it’s required now IMO, and it’s not against Dort, he’s still their best one on one defenders, he’ll be needed to play 30+ minutes some games, but not being willing to go away from him could’ve cost them the title last year

Dhr7468 | Thunder

114 | 4 hours ago

Underrated part of that game. Pretty much took off the moment we stopped playing him in the second half. Continue to think it’s his last season in okc because I just don’t see him getting an extension and the roster/cap crunch is real.

justtheshow | OKC

44 | 4 hours ago

Signing with clutch just makes that feel even more real

ProfessionalBox317 | Thunder

18 | 4 hours ago

It’s either pay him or iHart. I feel like that’s an absolute no brainer

itsVainglorious

7 | 4 hours ago

He is going to have to take a discount or find another home.

JazzlikeRaise108 | Thunder

9 | 3 hours ago

And for a guy already producing more than his contract implies I think he should go get paid.

no_nao | Thunder

55 | 4 hours ago

I think it’s matchup dependent. Dort id better on bigger slower guards due to his size alone. Cason is the most talented defender, insanely quick hands and feet, it really disrupts skilled ball handlers. AC has the highest BBIQ, makes winning plays out of nowhere, despite not having the insane quickness or size of the other two.

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

30 | 4 hours ago

Dort can’t play much vs the spurs imo as Wemby will be able to play off him to pack the paint like the Mavs did to Josh

Proof-Umpire-7718 | Lakers

13 | 4 hours ago

Sucks that Dort lost his 3 ball this year. It was pretty good last year, at least in the playoffs from what I remember.

Is he dealing with an injury or something?

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

18 | 4 hours ago

He had a shoulder injury to start the year so maybe that is lingering

TuqiDuque12 | Pistons

12 | 4 hours ago

I think Caruso and Cason are better overall defenders then Dort, but I think Dort is still pretty clearly the best on ball/over screens guy even vs small ish players.

Caruso is different yes, but since he’s at least smart on offense I don’t mind him playing next to one of the other while I think Cason and Lu should never play together

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

34 | 5 hours ago

YES!!!! Dort did nothing to earn his minutes today and he sat his ass like we did Giddey in the Mavs series we have good defenders where we don’t HAVE to play him and we can go offensive with both Joe and McCain out there with Shai

traw056 | Thunder

44 | 4 hours ago

Dort was playing great defense today actually. It’s just that when your bench is as hot as ours was today, you have no choice but to play them over Dort.

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

13 | 4 hours ago

The offense went to the shitter with him out there

TuqiDuque12 | Pistons

29 | 4 hours ago

I think he’s still clearly your best on ball defender, Cason has great hands but is still a bit small, Caruso is the best help defender in the league basically but on ball he’s not at that level anymore, so I’m not against playing Dort over one of them, but playing Dort + Cason should be a no go

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

18 | 4 hours ago

Glad to see others finally seeing the light lol 😂 those 2 together kills our spacing, we run that lineup vs Wemby where he can sag off Dort he can just pack the paint and take away our rim attempts

TuqiDuque12 | Pistons

9 | 4 hours ago

I must admit I didn’t quite realize how bad Cason was offensively, like in my mind it was always about Dort, but yeah it’s about both of them together especially

GonzoMonzo43 | Thunder

11 | 4 hours ago

Pistons fan knows ball. This is exactly right.

LugNutsDort | Thunder

234 | 5 hours ago

Imagine trading Jared McCain for a chance at Amari Allen LMAO

ThinReply2047

110 | 5 hours ago

That pick could be anything. It could even be another Jared McCain!

Proof-Umpire-7718 | Lakers

20 | 4 hours ago

Kennard’s been great for us, but I wish we traded for McCain instead.

He’s a better shooter, off ball player and overall self creator, and is a much younger player so he’s a long term piece. We also could have hurt you guys, at least this season, unless Presti had another target after McCain.

refreshing_yogurt

47 | 4 hours ago

Thunder fans feel like they got McCain for free but the actual package (1 first, 3 seconds) was more than all the available draft assets the Lakers had to trade at the deadline (not counting pick swaps).

goatmarino | Thunder

27 | 4 hours ago

Yeah but those picks are of no use to okc, so its kinda free lol

YaPhetsEz

15 | 4 hours ago

They arent even that useful for philly lmao

Proof-Umpire-7718 | Lakers

172 | 5 hours ago

McCain’s actually him. Was just scorching hot from 3 and played a key role during OKC’s run to create major separation late and ultimately seal the game.

Winning thie game in this manner while SGA was significantly worse than usual is very promising. They are my pick to win this year.

Eric_Nathan_Fielder | Warriors

43 | 4 hours ago

Walmart Steph. Not an insult by any means.

Darthmalak3347 | Thunder

27 | 3 hours ago

Great Value Curry in the sophomore year is crazy actually.

A_Lax_Nerd | OKC

17 | 3 hours ago

The way he runs off screens is kinda uncanny. Something OKC didn’t have before him. They certainly tried it with Joe but that’s not quite his game

EnderTheTrender | Thunder

15 | 4 hours ago

Just have to make it out the west

Like legitimately whoever makes it out of the west has the best shot at it.

xzadetechnoHD | Thunder

120 | 5 hours ago

Chris finch saved the nba !!!!

IncaseAce | Thunder

84 | 5 hours ago

Lost a free throw battle, but he’s gonna complain about the officials anyway isn’t he?

xzadetechnoHD | Thunder

40 | 5 hours ago

Of course he is Mr 0 accountability.

DeadDay | OKC

27 | 5 hours ago

He lost so yes.

RalphLaurenII | Thunder

113 | 5 hours ago

Rare SGA stinker, no JDub, convincing win over one of our biggest competitors in the West.

I’d hate us too man…

According-Dig-4667 | Thunder

55 | 5 hours ago

Love that 20 points, 10 assists, and 2 steals is a stinker man

jmarq123 | Thunder

19 | 4 hours ago

He shot bad but he had a hell of a 4th qt to make up for it

cootscoot | Thunder

41 | 5 hours ago

His defense in the early third was a big part of the win. Two blocks on Gobert essentially played him off the floor

rds2mch2 | Celtics

4 | 4 hours ago

You’re just such a juggernaut with a top 5 player and absurd depth all over the place. It’s like the terminator - it feels inevitable.

Bobskidat | Thunder

109 | 5 hours ago

Why didn’t the Timberwolves just not turn the ball over 22 times? Are they stupid?

Chidi_Ariana_Grande | Timberwolves

109 | 5 hours ago

Yeah

gOPHER3727 | Timberwolves

46 | 4 hours ago

Correct. That is literally the answer

RasenganMD | Timberwolves

13 | 4 hours ago

Kinda telling when it feels like Ayo & Slowmo are are the highest IQ players

gOPHER3727 | Timberwolves

14 | 4 hours ago

Yep, our two highest usage players make several boneheaded plays per game, Jaden isn’t a ton better, Rudy has bricks for hands, Naz and Bones are high risk/high reward on a game by game basis. Donte very smart, but also is a big wild card but at least he plays hard D and gets after rebounds and loose balls.

We really need to replace Julius with a high Bball IQ players, and get an adequate PG. That would solve a ton of problems.

strawhatcommander | Timberwolves

26 | 5 hours ago

Very

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

19 | 4 hours ago

I mean, yes. They are very very stupid

Skank_hunt42 | Thunder

16 | 4 hours ago

A lot of it was lazy passes and they just kept doing them.

The turnover from Ant in the backcourt to Caruso was just unacceptable.

strawhatcommander | Timberwolves

6 | 4 hours ago

I think that one may have Naz Reid’s fault. If I’m thinking of the right one

Morezingis | Timberwolves

76 | 5 hours ago

Legit the only answer is to fire Finch at this point. These guys don’t wanna play for him. The only way to motivate a tired veteran squad is to make a drastic change.

Will always appreciate him but we have hit a dead end. It’s the same mistakes every time. There is no punishment when we continuously make those mistakes every game. He just says “ok but don’t do that again” and we do it 50 more times.

We have 35 wins this season if not for late Ant heroics. When he’s struggling, we are completely hopeless.

LiamHundley | Thunder

53 | 4 hours ago

Mentally weak coach and it rubs off on the players.

Misdirected_Colors | Thunder

9 | 4 hours ago

I knew which games we were gonna win in the playoff series last year because you could see the team get frustrated and when they got frustrated play would get sloppy. It’d all fall apart.

When you see Ant or Goebert complaining to refs the game is over.

No-Owl-6246 | Lakers

7 | 3 hours ago

Instead of taking any sort of accountability, the dude bitches about the refs at every opportunity, and the mindset spreads. It’s like a tell tale sign that a coach is cooked and is trending towards a firing since the team never improves after that.

It’s how you could tell Malone was heading toward getting fired, his team starting buying into the antics and the team got mentally weak (see Murray chucking things at a ref during a game on a good call). Malone gets canned and all of a sudden Murray improves as a player instead of continuing the down slide his career was on.

ghostofabhelmet | Thunder

34 | 5 hours ago

IMO I feel like part of it is also Tim Connelly’s fault. Wolves are just fundamentally a flawed team in the current nba. Julius Randle as your second star isn’t enough. Gobert while fantastic on defense makes it hard to really build a modern offense with how bad he is on that end, and no legitimate point guard who can set up the offense is roster malpractice and no I don’t think old ass Mike Conley counts.

Brock-Lesnar

36 | 4 hours ago

Tim Connelly constructed this iteration of the Timberwolves to essentially specifically beat the Nuggets, but the problem is the Thunder have taken over as the team to beat.

EarthWarping | NBA

13 | 4 hours ago

Wolves can win a series, however I have them in the Lakers/Rockets tier of probably not more than that based on their roster problems.

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

19 | 5 hours ago

Who takes his place that makes things better?

And I’m getting tired of this team just like you but I want to know we are going to get better.

Olicsmems | Warriors

30 | 4 hours ago

That mentality is why certain teams stay stagnant

HarryPauler | Timberwolves

6 | 4 hours ago

I didn’t say don’t fire him. What I mean is, chose wrong, lose ant, and it’s likely back to being a bottom 3 team in the league. And who boy if it’s bad now I don’t want to see this sub if that happens. The clowning will be absolutely miserable

Shideya- | Thunder

10 | 4 hours ago

Probably some young lad like almost half NBA teams have. Daigneault, Stevens, Ott, Hardy, Fernández, Mazzula… for example are doing a great job adapting to the new NBA.

Just more years of finch looks like the past 2 years, capable of winning some ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ series but not multiple of those.

BankaiBroke | China

14 | 4 hours ago

It’s not Finch’s fault that you have a team with no PG, a center that is useless offensively, and Julius Randle as the 2nd best player on the team. The roster itself is flawed and no coach is going to come and magically turn it into a championship caliber squad.

FeanorEvades | Timberwolves

15 | 4 hours ago

It’s Finch’s job to get the team to not make the same mistakes they were in October, the same mistakes they made in the playoffs last May, and the same mistakes they made in December last year.

But it’s the same stuff every time. It’s lazy passes in the back court, it’s bad defensive communication on screens and switches, it’s the complete lack of mental resilience.

I could live with a team that was making new mistakes and avoiding the old ones. But that’s not what’s happening.

EarthWarping | NBA

10 | 4 hours ago

Wolves feel like theyve reached their ceiling with this roster.

Proof-Umpire-7718 | Lakers

5 | 4 hours ago

Randle needs to be traded for a true second option and they need an actual actual starting pg.

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

8 | 4 hours ago

Give Nori the keys he will be poached if you don’t he is a hell of a coach

Ronnie2kDropCode | Knicks

79 | 5 hours ago

Somebody please get Doris Burke off the air

Longjumping_One_9164 | Thunder

5 | 4 hours ago

She is so fucking awful and that was one of her better games for not being blatantly biased against OKC.

She borders on senile and the ESPN product is so much worse than Prime.

Wish they’d just have Breen for this type of slot.

VersionCool588 | Thunder

68 | 5 hours ago

Ayo Dosunmu is nice

hafrances | Bulls

17 | 4 hours ago

That’s my boy

RemoteAbalone8687 | Bulls

64 | 5 hours ago

OKC sleepwalking into a 13 point win

Spiritual-Bar-5618 | Thunder

94 | 5 hours ago

That was not a sleepwalk, never seen a trio more locked in mccain, caruso and caso

Luciolover345 | Thunder

37 | 4 hours ago

Add Isaiah into that. Lights out scoring from him.

BigDaddyD1994 | Pistons

13 | 4 hours ago

Minnesota took a win and turned it over to loss today, just atrocious ball security

WembyOKCJokicReaves

63 | 5 hours ago

Shai’s off game still had him getting 10 assists to just 1 turnover, shooting ²⁄₄ from 3 and playing great defense

His floor is just so ridiculously high and he deserves the MVP this season

EsotericPotato | Timberwolves

53 | 5 hours ago

10 points and 11 rebounds from Jaden, Rudy, and Naz combined is unacceptable. None of those guys have been playing good ball recently and it’s an underrated aspect to their struggles lately.

I’m gonna get nuked for saying this but the longer this season goes on, the less impressive I’m finding Ant’s season to be. His ability to affect the game positively if he’s not scoring is basically nonexistent. He’s regressed as a passer, as a rebounder, and as a defender. He’s largely getting a pass across the board because he’s upped his ppg by two. Meanwhile he’s just jacking up anything and everything even if he’s got 2-3 good defenders on him.

AO_from_DP | Thunder

21 | 5 hours ago

Well, at least Randle finally showed up, isn’t this one is his best game of the season, or top5?

FeanorEvades | Timberwolves

7 | 4 hours ago

Nah. He was awesome in the first month or so and had a few really impactful triple double type games sprinkled in between.

This was easily his best game against OKC in the past 2 seasons though

Asleep_Ground1710 | Bulls

8 | 5 hours ago

I think one issue for the Wolves is just how inconsistent McDaniels/DDV/Reid can be on offense. Not uncommon for them to have games where they are invisible

Lstark5642 | Thunder

48 | 5 hours ago

Hell of a game by the OKC bench. That hartenstein between the legs to Jared McCain for three felt so monumental.

RL_Stine_

7 | 4 hours ago

wtf IHart is back? So only down Jdub now. Im ready for the playoffs to start now

ThunderTime_1

53 | 5 hours ago

I would die for Jared McCain

Kaizerx20 | Timberwolves

46 | 5 hours ago

This is one of those games where each ref is gambling on a different team

Melodicmarc | Thunder

29 | 4 hours ago

The officiating was horrible this game. So many missed calls and calls that made no sense

Responsible-Bass4020 | Thunder

21 | 4 hours ago

“I don’t wanna piss off Chris”

“Well I don’t wanna piss off Shai”

royalewlthcheese | Australia

46 | 5 hours ago

Really funky game lmao.

Both teams got away with a lot of fouling, refs were letting them play.

Very rare poor shooting night from Shai. Missed some shots he usually drains but the Wolves guarded him well to their credit. Thought he still did well to impact the game with his defense and playmaking. Still managed 10 assists with only 1 turnover.

iHart is a game changer for OKC. His rebounding, screen setting and passing change the dynamic of OKCs offense, particularly when Shai sits.

Jared McCain deserves a cookie for that last quarter. His 3 point shooting will win OKC some playoff games.

The Joe McCain minutes are ephemeral but electric.

Minnesota really gotta clear up their turnovers. Some of them are so undisciplined.

Encouraging win for OKC considering how poorly Shai shot the ball

GonzoMonzo43 | Thunder

6 | 4 hours ago

Excellent analysis. IHart’s between the legs DHO’s get me erect.

Grade-A-Grungus | Thunder

34 | 5 hours ago

What’s Finch gonna blame this one on?

nxtu14

28 | 5 hours ago

Daryl morey

Grade-A-Grungus | Thunder

30 | 4 hours ago

Actually a valid scapegoat

Skank_hunt42 | Thunder

9 | 4 hours ago

Fuck. He’s got a point.

heat_fan_ | Raptors

33 | 5 hours ago

Morey is an idiot

Wolves just gave up

Longjumping_One_9164 | Thunder

9 | 4 hours ago

They always just give up against OKC.

Go watch the WCF last year. It was the same shit when they feel one call doesnt go their way.

EarthWarping | NBA

28 | 5 hours ago

Wolves are only 1.5 ahead of Phoenix for 6th.

ValleyRalley | Suns

23 | 5 hours ago

And they play each other on the 17th

EarthWarping | NBA

8 | 4 hours ago

big game

GodlySpaghetti | Thunder

19 | 5 hours ago

Lmfao thank you Daryl Morey

cashappmebitch | Wizards

22 | 5 hours ago

Chris Finch gonna talk about the refs and pretend like his team having 22 turnovers had nothing to do with the outcome

pufffsullivan | Thunder

20 | 5 hours ago

Twolves should work on not turning the ball over

gOPHER3727 | Timberwolves

9 | 4 hours ago

Or corralling greater than 7% of loose balls, that would help.

taco_2sdays

19 | 5 hours ago

Bad shooting game for SGA but his impact on defense and playmaking makes this a good game overall

HitboxOfASnail | Thunder

17 | 5 hours ago

SGA plays his worst game in 2 seasons and the wolves still get belted. People forgot okc was playing handicapped all season. Only Jdub left to get back healthy. TTFU

MikeDCollector | Thunder

14 | 5 hours ago

Thank you Daryl Morey for Lightning McCain

BaddadBedTimeStories | Thunder

16 | 5 hours ago

God I bet minnesotta fans hate okc so fucking much.

LoudCityDub

10 | 4 hours ago

They literally boo Shai every time he touches the ball. They hate OKC probably more than any fanbase

RL_Stine_

9 | 4 hours ago

Envy is a effed up emotion, yo

DeadDay | OKC

16 | 5 hours ago

I love this team.

STEAMY_TOOTS

14 | 5 hours ago

Bad game from Shai, thank goodness for Jared McCain

TheRavenOnline

13 | 5 hours ago

SGA is gonna be tough to beat

rumblegod | Thunder

14 | 5 hours ago

Great WCF preview. OKC In 5

frallet | Timberwolves

21 | 5 hours ago

I appreciate the optimism to think this team could get to the WCF lol

Rynyx | Thunder

11 | 5 hours ago

DARLY MOREY, THIS IS FOR YOU!

TheAgmis | Thunder

13 | 4 hours ago

At least you have Kyler Murray Minnesota!!!

WaltofWallstreet | Thunder

12 | 4 hours ago

As a Thunder / Viking / OU fan.. fuck yeah! Lol

TheAgmis | Thunder

7 | 4 hours ago

OH SHIT

VeniceRapture | Spurs

10 | 5 hours ago

Gobert straight ass as the playoffs are about to start

CoolAsTheUnthawed | OKC

9 | 5 hours ago

AND WE KEEPING OUR STREAK PUSSY

Dreo27 | Thunder

7 | 4 hours ago

Sorry Chris Finch. Can’t wait for your press conference on how the wolves got cheated out of this one!

Forsaken_Flight6188 | Knicks

9 | 4 hours ago

Wolves peaked they’re not winning anything with Chris Finch they can’t hang with OKC

RL_Stine_

10 | 4 hours ago

Didnt exactly steamroll everyone but Thunder just beat Cleveland, Denver (twice), New York, Golden State, Boston, and Minnesota since the end of last month.

LiamHundley | Thunder

7 | 5 hours ago

Microcosm of the wolves season all in one game imo. Their best is as good as anyone. Just cannot consistently string it together and allow for these weird runs/losses

cootscoot | Thunder

7 | 5 hours ago

Great couple hours for Der and Hog fans

Nitro0531

6 | 5 hours ago

Still waiting on that streak to end (skeleton meme)

WishyWashedup | Timberwolves

6 | 5 hours ago

Im tired of the wolves 2016 cavs offense.

Appropriate_Book_591

5 | 5 hours ago

Chet with a quiet dominant game. Going to be fun to get JDub back and have Chet still be assertive.

The Oklahoma City Thunder (53-15) defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves (41-27), 116-103.