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Complete victory! The Thunder 4-3 Nuggets, who is the key to winning and advancing? Western Conference Finals vs. Timberwolves

10:21am, 20 May 2025【Basketball】

The final match of the NBA playoff semi-finals took place between the Nuggets and the Thunder, who dragged the series into a tiebreak while Gordon decided to play with an injury before the game. This also made this game suspense again, but I never thought that in the second quarter of the game, the Thunder played a wave to expand the lead and finally maintained the advantage of the score to win the 7th; eliminated the Nuggets 4:3 in the series, and I advanced to the division final. Complete victory! The Thunder 4-3 Nuggets, who is the key to winning and advancing? The Western Conference Finals vs. The Timberwolves. After the game started, the two teams felt unsatisfactory, and the intensity on the defensive end was full, but they all had various blacksmiths and mistakes on the offensive end. Braun scored the highest score in the first quarter, but he scored 9 points in a single quarter. The Nuggets once took a double-digit lead, but at the end of the quarter, the Thunder scored consecutively to only 5 points. At the beginning of the second quarter, the two teams were in a stalemate, and the Nuggets tried to keep the lead, but since the 2nd quarter, the Nuggets were in trouble, and they could not limit the Thunder's offense. Under Alexander's leadership, the Thunder played a 36:16 shot in the second quarter in more than 9 minutes. Jaylen Williams scored 17 points without making any mistakes in the third quarter. The score of the two teams in the second quarter was 39:20 and the Thunder won 19 points in a single quarter.

The Nuggets' offensive end still had no obvious recovery, and Jokic was still restricted by the Thunder's defense. He played in the third quarter in a single quarter, but only scored 3 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists in one shot. The Nuggets only had 26 points in a single quarter, while the Thunder continued to maintain their output. Alexander scored 11 points in a single quarter, leading the Thunder to score 37 points in a single quarter again; the score difference has reached 25 points, and the balance of victory has become more inclined to the Thunder.

The Thunder started the final quarter with another 7:0 score difference that has reached more than 30 points. Murray broke through the basket and scored hard for the team to break the deadlock. The Nuggets also used the last timeout of the game, but at this time, they were 9 minutes and 30 seconds left before the end of the game, and they were 32 points behind. The Nuggets, who had no hope of chasing points, chose to withdraw their main players and gave up the game; the Thunder played steadily and maintained their advantage until the end, and won the game. Promoted to the Western Conference Finals.

The Nuggets rely more on the offensive end of this game on the offensive end of Jokic, Braun and Murray, and the remaining players performed averagely; at the same time, they did not limit the Thunder's offense on the defensive end, and the opponent climaxed in the second and third quarters to expand the lead. Jokic scored 20 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists in 5 of 9 shots, and made five mistakes. Braun made 7 of 14 shots and scored 19 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, but made 2 of 9 from outside the three-point line. Murray made 6 of 16 shots and scored 13 points and two assists. The performance was not ideal.

The remaining players only got single digits scored. Gordon made 2 of 4 shots with injuries and scored 8 points and 11 rebounds. It can be said that he has tried his best. In the end, the Nuggets were still unable to create a miracle, and they were eliminated by the Thunder 3:4. The offseason will probably face major adjustments to the lineup. After all, since the disintegration of their team's lineup has exposed more problems. We will wait and see where the team will go in the offseason.

The young Thunder still laughed to the last time. Under the leadership of Alexander and Jaylen Williams, he maintained his lead and won the victory and finally advanced to the division final. Alexander made 12 of 19 shots and scored 35 points and performed well. Jaylen Williams scored 24 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists on 10 of 17 shots, while Homgren scored 13 points and 11 rebounds on 4 of 9 shots, Caruso on the bench had 11 points, and Harten scored 10 points and 7 rebounds. The Thunder, which bloomed in multiple points, defeated the Nuggets in a big score to win the game.

The Thunder, the No. 1 in the Western Conference, refused to be out of the game; they defeated the Nuggets in a tiebreak, eliminated their opponents, and advanced to the division finals themselves; they will face off against the Timberwolves, which are two teams with young players as the core. We will wait and see who will advance to the finals in the end.