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BloopOracle wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 4:28 pm Murray questionable with an illness, I am sad.

Ouch, he's been good in this series too. He'll probably play, but you gotta believe he'll be at least a little hampered.

I'll be scouting tonight.

Like I said in another thread this playoffs I want to play the team with the lesser defense. Aaron Gordon playing Randle is something I've been thinking about for a while. Idk how Randle would do against OKC. Does Chet's length bother him?

Wolves start the finals in OkC on Sunday if the Thunder win tonight, or in either Denver or OkC Tuesday if it goes 7.

Stephen A said the Wolves should be favored to win it all at this point

I saw that the Wolves are the 6th team to make the conference finals as a 6th seed. Only twice has a 6th seed made the finals.

Both Stephen A and Perk have said they favor the Wolves to win it all now

I think we match well against any team to win the Finals. Then I see the team go up 25 and sink to like 9 and gulp. Then they explode.

I think this is the best chance to win.

Funnily enough I believe the Knicks are the hardest to beat. Brunson is just a Shai with a center that screws Rudy rotations.

Not afraid of Celtics without Tatum.

Pacers I don't know how they're there again.

I think Julius Randle can actually body up Jokic most of the time and let others play free.

TheFuture wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 7:10 am I think we match well against any team to win the Finals. Then I see the team go up 25 and sink to like 9 and gulp. Then they explode.

I think this is the best chance to win.

Funnily enough I believe the Knicks are the hardest to beat.

Funnily? I love it! It even got by my auto-correct!

After our 2nd butt-whooping by the Pacers, the thought occurred to me that at least we wouldn’t see them in the playoffs until the Finals…

60WinTim wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 7:43 am

TheFuture wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 7:10 am I think we match well against any team to win the Finals. Then I see the team go up 25 and sink to like 9 and gulp. Then they explode.

I think this is the best chance to win.

Funnily enough I believe the Knicks are the hardest to beat.

Funnily? I love it! It even got by my auto-correct!

After our 2nd butt-whooping by the Pacers, the thought occurred to me that at least we wouldn’t see them in the playoffs until the Finals…

https://www.google.com/search?q=funnily ... TF-8#ebo=0

TheFuture wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 7:10 am I think we match well against any team to win the Finals. Then I see the team go up 25 and sink to like 9 and gulp. Then they explode.

I think this is the best chance to win.

Funnily enough I believe the Knicks are the hardest to beat. Brunson is just a Shai with a center that screws Rudy rotations.

Not afraid of Celtics without Tatum.

Pacers I don't know how they're there again.

I think Julius Randle can actually body up Jokic most of the time and let others play free.

Turns out "funnily enough" is a fairly commonly used expression...who knew?

I'm wondering about the reasoning of the two who would rather play OkC instead of Denver.

The rest of these playoffs are going to be really interesting. I don't disagree that we would have a chance against any of the teams, but I also am fairly certain we will be an underdog in any remaining series (barring a significant injury on our opponent), if only because we would not have home court advantage. Here's how I rank the remaining teams from most difficult for us to beat to least difficult, and what I think the Vegas odds might be.

OkC- 150
Indiana -125
Denver -120
Knicks -140 (Vegas will value them higher than I would)
Boston (only because of Tatum out) -115