[Highlight] With their 9th straight win tonight, the Oklahoma City Thunder clinch a Western Conference top 6 seed in the NBA Playoffs with a 113-108 victory over the Orlando Magic.
Annoyingly, the Thunder are just too good.
It’ll be interesting to see how they handle the pressure of being the Champs this playoffs.
Yeah there’s pressure but surely not as much going in as the favorite despite not being champs?
This team reminds me so much of those old Warriors squads. Everybody from 1-10 is a killer in some way and if you’re not careful a random guy will drop 20 on you.
I’d disagree, the team outside of shai is honestly fairly lackluster on offense
I dunno, we’re definitely a defensive team, but I wouldn’t say Joe, McCain, Ajay, Jdub and Chet and even Jwill are lacklustre on offence.
I like McCain but outside of him the rest of the supporting cast are fairly one dimensional as scorers and not really much of an on-ball threat. Really just speaks to how generational shai is ngl
I dunno bro, watch some more Ajay if you get a chance! He’s got a full offensive package and healthy Jdub can definitely do a bit of everything too.
The rest yep I can agree there! I’d prefer Chet to honestly not try to do too much lol ends poorly a lot.
I was gonna say I liked what I’ve seen of Ajay but too low volume — but then I saw he’s averaging 14 so yeah I’ll give you that.
Jdub looks good in the okc offense but feels just like a slasher to me
Healthy Jdub is straight up PG13 the whole package is there, but obviously I’m biased
Most his threes are catch and shoot and idt he’s that great in the midrange
Nah not really, he took a heap off the dribble last year
Yeah you should watch more dub then
Are….are you being for real lol?
I’m being a bit harsh but yeah I think okc’s offense is quite overrated. Maybe it’s cuz I’ve watched the spurs clown on them 4 times this season but still.
All without our number 2 btw :)
Can we just be healthy for the playoffs? I havent got to watch one game this season with the thunder healthy.
That’s what I want to see, them fully operational
The refs?
Nobody cares bro.
Haven’t even considered we could be a 2 seed for like 3 years
Wasn’t the race for 1 seed in ‘24 extremely close? Like 3-way tied record between min/den/okc?
The Wolves were a game back of Denver and OKC but pretty much. I think it took a surprise Nuggets’ loss in the last couple of games for the Thunder to get the one.
ya that was the spurs upsetting them despite being deep into their tank
Kinda crazy to think about how that spurs loss changed the whole western conference out look. If Denver had stayed the 1 seed, would Dallas still have made it to the finals? How would the wolves match up with that 2024 okc roster?
All thanks to Denver losing to the 22 win spurs in the last game lol
Denver lost one of the final games of the season and there was a 3 way tie that we owned the tiebreaker of I’m pretty sure
Yep, but I didn’t doubt it for a second
Well you’re an idiot then lol
Thunder -10 bettors didn’t love those 6 Orlando points in the final 10 seconds.
Over under was 210.5
The OKC dynasty might not lose another game this season. Toughest opponent are the nugs but we got their number. 67-15, b2b champions
We have to play Celtics, Knicks, and Pistons before it’s out. You’re saying the pistons aren’t tougher / equal to the nuggs?
Detroit is at home. I think the hardest game left on the schedule is away Boston.
Look at their injury report
65-17
Excuse me, you must’ve missed the Wemby games
I think they’re talking about of the remaining games
Saving this one 📸
Also once again not a dynasty until you’re in like 3 ring territory, not every team that wins a ring is a dynasty. It has to be proven first
This year is inevitable. You can screenshot this one too, OKC goes 16-4 in the playoffs. Our biggest threat are 2 teams (DET & SAS without any playoff experience and a Celtics team thats nowhere near as dominant as their 24’ championship team.
The future is undetermined, even if so I’d still say 3-4 rings before it’s a dynasty. Warriors, spurs, bulls all had 4 or more together and 3 for Kobe/shaq