Thunder vs Timberwolves | 2025 WCF | Full Game 1 MOVIE 🍿

Thunder vs Timberwolves | 2025 WCF | Full Game 1 MOVIE 🍿

Back in action after the five-day layoff and back in familiar territory for the second straight postseason. This time the Timberwolves are hoping to make even more noise as tonight they’re in Oklahoma City to tip off game one of the Western Conference Finals against Shay Gildas Alexander and the Thunder. Opening tip tossed up by Pat Breer and Rudy Goar wins the tip in the Western Conference Finals are underway as McDaniels knocks down the first shot of the series. They’re four and one on the road in these playoffs. The Timberwolves Jaden pull up straight away. 16-footer hits again. 5 nothing. Jaden McDaniels leads the Oklahoma City Thunder. Edwards against step back three. Got it. What a start. Three for three and an eight nothing lead. And SGA comes the other way. goes right at it. Daniels gets inside double team finds Hartley Williams open floor gets the bump play a block by Edwards and backtracking is in to block the shot. What a play by Edwards. Julius Rando giving some space and knocks down the three. Rando playing against some of the best team basketball. The previous series averaged 25 points, seven and a half assists. Beautiful spin move and a little English. STAG with a sweet play. Hartstein knocks it away on the double team on the tip away by Hartstein. Case lobbying. Hardenstein gathers. Wallace alioop to Hartinstein. Defense to offense OKC style. McDaniels. Randall gets a good look from the corner and that’s another three for Julius Randle. He across the timeline to SGA. Played by Randall. Stepped away fires. The young guard 13t jump for a beauty. SGA found the mid-range. Has his second success. And was left open now drives. Lost the handle. picked up by Williams again in the open floor. They pulled out a dope dunk here at OKC and the Thunder have their first lead. Reed kicks it out in the corner. Demonzo fires away. Hits the three. Alexander Walker that one halfway down. Clark on the follow. Backs it in. Williams on the drive. Hartstein with the stuff. Even Chenzo kicks it out. Good swarming defense here. Randle three-pointer is good. Julius Randle three for four from long distance. Arinstein rarely off the dribble. Go there with the block. Back out Caruso. He’ll try a three. That’s good. Game tied again. Just a second three-pointer for OKC. Alexander Walker. Ball tipped all the way out to Randall. Randle’s going to try another three. Puts it in. Julius Randle. His fourth three-pointer already. A wing. Beautiful drive and finish. Randle huge height advantage and weight advantage on Wiggins. Beautiful turnaround shot. He’s got 15 points. Julius Randall hashmark three. Oh, nothing but net. Nylon for Randall. Monster first half continues up to 18 points. That’s his fifth triple of the half. Homegr shot. Got it. Daniels probes against Jet right wing. Drops it back out to Naz Reed on the move. He’ll drive in. Shuffle it off to Rudy who dunks it in for two. What a setup by Nas Wallace left open. Knocks down a three. He’s a defensive demon and his offensive game growing. Just his second year in the league. Thor goes back door and throws it down. Nice pass from home. It’s back to a four-point game. Edwards fires away. Knocks down the three-pointer. His second three. He’s got 10. SGA left of the lane against McDaniel. Spins in the lane. Shot rejected by Jaden. Oh, he swatted it away into the corner. Alexander racing up the floor. Fires inside. Williams. Couple of fakes and banks it home. That will end the first half. A slugfest here in the opening two quarters of this Western Conference final. Williams. That’s a wide open look. Haven’t had a lot of those. Knocks that down. SGA trying to find his spot. State finds Hungren. Easy bucket for Chad Homegrren. Mley kicks it out. Jake Daniels pulls up jump shot. That’s good. Daniels making it difficult to go Alexander. Shay grinding left now. steps away, fires an offbalance onelegged 13- foot jumper. It goes and he’s hacked in the net by McDaniel. SPA with a bit of a limp when he comes up and a chance for a three-point play. Hartinstein’s got that floater going well. OKC back up by two. Shot clock at eight. Edwards finds some room. Nails the three-pointer. His third three. He’s got 16. Jaylen Williams out of the timeout. Works on the key into the paint. Shuts off. Williams on a pull up. Jump shot is good. He’s got double figures now. moves one-on-one with Ramble. Gets passed to the floaters up and good. Tough shot from Jaylen Williams. We’re tied again. The two Cousins battling right there. SGA wins out. Timeout Minnesota. Thunder up two. Edwards guarding SGA. Williams screens. Alexander left-handed. Does not go down. Gets his own rebound. Back up and in. Four-point OKC lead again. That’s their largest of the game. Williams the drive up and under. Banks it home. Gorgeous move and 10 straight points by the Thunder. Time out Minnesota. SGA again posting up his cousin. Squatted by Naz Reed. Terrific defensive play. Edwards dancing. Francing gets to the rim. Layup’s good. Williams to Wallace picks it out. Caruso homegrren. Henri Williams pulls up. Jump shot. Gets it to go. Kenri Williams with some very good minutes off the bench. Kenri Williams three. Got it. Big three-pointer and the Thunder with their largest lead of the game. Slashing White Shay into the paint. Pulls up. Pops the jumper. Drops. OKC 73 Minnesota 62. Thunder pouring it on. Even Jenzo quick catch and shoot. He hits the three. A big three-pointer for Minnesota. Home screens highlight. Driving away from it down the lane across the body. Banks it home and he’s knocked in the act. shots good and one. Took the hit, banked it home and a chance for a three-point play. Naz Reed the rebound. Shot clock at five. Layup blocked by Homer. Reed catches it deepen with three. Puts it in. Dub on the handle. Squeezed by McDaniels. Triple down the lane. Wallace corner right. Homer up for the rainbow three-pointer. That’s in there. Chuching. It’s under money ball. Excellent screen out front. Dislodge Stevenzo from the play. He’s shaken up. Randle guarded by Caruso. pulled up. Jumper is good. First bucket here in the second half for Randall Williams up top to Caruso. Sets, fires, sad rattles in a three and a lead back to 11. Ando drives. Reverse blocked by Homer. Saved by Wallace. Ball out of bounds and it’s going to be Oh, they’re going to call a foul. Nearly stolen by Williams. Reed and just walks right into the lane. Lays it up. Wiggins deflected by Devanchenzo Wallace right there to Homer. Homegrren with the flush feet inside. Homegrren with a force. Big buckets for Chad Homerren here in the fourth. Back up to 11. Elvis Alexander once again goes out his cousin. Well defended. Shot in and out. Won’t go. Homer right there. Chandle drives on D. Backs in. Backs in. Tries to split the defense and lost the ball. That’s a travel. D takes it away anyway. Getting to Caruso. Shay up the left side to the base on McDaniels. Foul. Bucket. Count it and one from Shay Sizzle here on the fourth. The lead is 13 up topenzo. Good ball movement. Alexander Walker using the left hand. Banks it home. Pretty move. SGA the drive and the finish. 28 points for Shay Kilus Alexander. Edwards guarded by Dort. Alexander Walker heads a three. 10-point lead with five to go. Plenty of time for Minnesota. goes Alexander jumper. Four and a half remaining. Thunder up a dozen. Jaylen Williams. Luke Dort corner three. High arcing three goes down. Timeout. Minnesota. Largest lead of the night. Randle spins against Stewart. Leans in. Beautiful move from Julius Randle. 28 points for Ramsey. And Wallace has it on the drive. Goes inside. Throws it up. And Taylor Williams with the flush. Edwards guarding SGAA. Tries inside, pulls up back up top to Caruso. Caruso three-pointer. Bangs. 18-point lead with three minutes to play. Stolen by Dort. Saves it to Williams. This crowd in a frenzy right now. Russo fighting over screens. Sticks with Edwards. Mike, you’re talking about how little he’s been able to get things going here. Well, this is why. Do not allow yourself to be screened. When the screen comes, you take a step toward that guy. But the ability to stay in front on a guy with the handle and explosion of Anthony Edwards. Come on, RJ. Kendrick Williams didn’t play huge minutes 10, but boy, he had a huge impact. OKC down 8 nothing to start by as many as nine in the opening half. Wallop the Wolves in game one. 11488. A resounding message sent by the top seated Thunder as they pick off the Wolves in game one decisively 114 to 88. And what did you uh feel like was working? It’s crazy. And what did you feel like was working offensively for you guys uh in this game when it was working and when the offense got a little stuck? What uh what were you running into? what was working. Um, just making the right play. Um, taking our shots. Yeah, I think that was pretty much what was working in the first half. Julius, uh, in the the first half, I think at 20 um, and really aggressive shot was going in. Um, what what is did they adjust to you at all in the second half? Um, or what changed for you half to half offensively? Uh, I don’t I don’t really think they did anything different other than uh just try to run me off the three-point line uh a little bit. Um, I mean, that was really the only thing different. I mean, their defense is the same. They’re heavy gaps, you know, boxes and elbows. Um, so I don’t really think they did anything different. You know, they just tried to get me off the three-point line, off my catch and shoots, and I mean, that was it. getting downhill me and both of y’all question for both of y’all. Um getting downhill is kind of y’all, you know, strong suit, you know, from the last two series and even just, you know, kind of you guys’ identity. What did you feel like, you know, with their size coming into this matchup was the the biggest adjustment that you guys had to make given that you guys only had 20 points in the paint this game coming off of, you know, 72 versus Golden State in game five? Uh, I mean, they clog the paint. That’s what they do. Um they don’t got much size down there. So they bank on us not making shots I guess cuz every time I go to the rim it’s like four people in the paint. So yeah I guess they just be clogging the paint. They put like five four bodies in the paint make you kick it out. So just keep making the right play. Julius, what do you think changed defensively for you guys in the in the second half or or was it just a matter of them hitting more shots uh in the second half? Uh, I mean the the first half, what was it? 48 44. So, I mean it wasn’t like it was a shootout in the first half, you know what I mean? So, it’s just even if we’re not making shots, we still got to defend at a high level. And, um, I mean, we gave him 32 in the third and then the fourth it got away from us obviously and gave him 38. But, um, whether it’s misses or makes, we still got to defend at a high level. And I think that was probably the difference in the second half. Obviously, we didn’t shoot the ball as well as we wanted to tonight, you know. Um, but regardless of that, um, I mean, we really held them to 100 points into like the end of the game obviously where, you know, they made some baskets. So, we got to we got to defend at a at a at a little bit better uh level in that in that third quarter. Aunt Dante was saying in the locker room that it seemed like they were throwing different looks at you guys every other possession on offense. Just how did it make it hard for hard for you to read or hard for the team to read or just how did you kind of process their their defense? Uh yeah, I mean it was hard to process cuz he right it was different. It was kind of it was different every time. I mean heavy in the gaps sometimes trap the ball screen, sometimes don’t. Sometimes just run and jump. It’s kind of similar to like AAU. They remind me of like a AAU defensive team. Just run and jump um fly around. So, it’s pretty good. Good to um get it out our system in game one, you know. So, we’ll be ready for game two. We should be ready. Seems like one of the turning points in the game was when Jaden got his third and fourth fouls early in the third quarter. Did his absence affect you guys on either end of the court, do you think? Yeah. Hell yeah. I mean, he’s the best defender we got and um they usually put the five on him and we play through him in the pocket. Um and he makes the right play over and over again and he’s super aggressive. So when he’s not on the floor definitely hurts for sure. Is there anything about their style of play that is wearing over the course of a 48 minute game where you know maybe you can handle it in the first half but they keep coming with that style. It gets tougher as the game goes on. Um no not really. Uh, just got to I definitely got to shoot more. I only took 13 shots. But, um, I’ll say probably just get off the ball a little more, play without the ball. I think that’ll be the answer cuz playing on the ball, they just going to double and sit in the gaps all day. So, got to go watch some film and pick it apart. We’ll figure it out. Did your ankle affect your shooting at all? Julius and just mentioned that, you know, it was good to get it out in game one. It was kind of a similar situation against the Warriors. I mean, what do you draw from that? If anything, the way you guys were able to bounce back against them and take that serious, uh, we prove that we can do it. U, but we got to make it happen, too. You know, we can’t just be like, “All right, we did it last year.” So, you know, I mean, we going to do it again. Like, this is a great team. They’ve been playing great basketball all year. So, I mean, we good thing is we proved to oursel that we can do it, but you know, we got to make it happen. And I know you said that the the angle’s not bothering you, but of those 13 shots, you only took one in the paint all night. Is that more just the defense that they’re throwing at you or seeing something different? The explosiveness, that’s not what we’re used to seeing from you. Yeah. Um, yeah, they’re just in the gaps. Yeah, it was kind of hard to get to the paint honestly. I mean, regardless of that’s my game, but they definitely took that aspect of my game away tonight from getting downhill. So, good job to those guys. And then Nazar’s in the locker room. He just felt like he liked the shots that he was getting, that Dante was getting, that uh Nquille was getting. They just weren’t falling. So, as the two guys are sort of the the leaders of this group, do you say something to them after this or is it just keep shooting? Yeah, they good. They know. Um they got great looks, just couldn’t make them. A lot of them went in and out. Um and that’s going to help us. Me, that’s going to help me and J. um you know cuz they usually make those shots so we’re not really worried about them making shots. Yeah, they’ll be all right. Julius, was it as simple as they started making shots and you guys had trouble making shots? What was the difference from the first half to the second half? Uh I mean yeah that um you know I said it before our defense uh in the second half you know giving them what is that 35 a quarter you know we can’t do that. Um, you know, I’m always going to hold myself accountable. Five turnovers, it’s way too much. I can’t do that. Uh, so I mean, we can say it’s misses and makes. Um, and it is a miss and make league, but regardless, we got to defend at a high level and, um, especially on the road. Especially on the road. So, yeah. Ant, this is only your guys’ third loss of the postseason. I remember after the first loss against the Lakers, you said you were a little bit confused. news there was like oh it’s like a zone um after the loss against the Warriors you said you unders post game you’re like I understood what I need to do next game to uh apply it where are you kind of on that that spectrum like do you feel like you know what the answers are to attack it um yeah next game I feel great yeah um yeah just sit in the gaps and double team all day so should be all right play without the ball a little more get a little more cardio in should be good thanks guys Shay what you feel about that third quarter uh and the way that you all came out uh of course defensively still with that same edge, but offensively able to find your spots, you and Dub. Yeah, we we haven’t had the greatest of third quarters this um playoff run so far. We um want to make that emphasis like come out of halftime with a punch, with a little jolt, with some some energy um and not ease into it and we’ll be better off towards the end of the game. We um yeah, we just made that emphasis and we didn’t like we didn’t panic obviously in the struggles with the struggles in the first half. We missed a bunch of layups as a group. We missed free throws like the easy ones and we knew that we we stuck with it. They would eventually fall and they did. Shay, you you’ve played a handful of series now as a first option. What have you sort of learned about how to process a game from from quarter to quarter, how you value each quarter up until maybe the point it’s time for you to close a game? Yeah, it’s always a chess match out there. Like you go out there, you have a base coverage, you have something that you you want to start with, then you see how the game goes, and then you just read and react and adjust from there. They make a move, you make a move. Like it’s it’s it’s back and forth and it’s going to be like that throughout the series. Um they’re a really good team. They’ll make adjustments. They’ll get better for sure. We have to continue to get better as well. As far as the back and forth, it seemed like early you were trying to set that line of like what sort of physicality could go, what what couldn’t, and and the shots you would take with that. What What sort of changed from half to half as far as the calls you felt like you gotten what what you wanted to shoot? Um, I I don’t I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m not too sure what you mean by that. I was just out there being aggressive, trying to get to my spots. Um, obviously, it wasn’t falling like I it usually does and like I would like it to, but it’s part of the game. I didn’t nothing really changed my mindset. I just try to continue to be aggressive, continue to trust my work, and it worked out for me in the second half. Yeah. Shade Mark talked about Mark was just in here talking about how a guy like Kenrich who didn’t play in last series coming in breathes life into the team and not just him Isaiah Joe first off do you agree with that assessment and then what does that do for you guys on a night like where your shots is aren’t falling. Yeah absolutely. Um, every series is different and every game in every series is different. Different matchups. We need different things for different opponents. So, like our readiness as a group has been has been special and and we’re going to need it the the further we go. But those two guys were nothing short of who they’ve been all year. Like they guys who play one night, not play the next night, play 30 minutes a night after that. like they are always ready. They know they they bring to the team and they go out there and do it at a high level and then that’s why they were ready for their moment tonight. Um but yeah, we don’t win this game without those two guys and hats off to those two guys and those two guys are who they’ve been all year and that’s that’s tough to do through the ups and downs and the emotions of like playing and not playing. So, uh yeah, hats off to them too for sure. Yeah. Shay, Mark was talking about how he thought it took you guys a little time to calibrate recalibrate with the different style of opponent. Did you feel that at all during the game that you have to remind yourself, oh, this this isn’t Denver anymore? Uh, it felt different from jump or more like pressure oriented. Um, it feels like a little more physical. Um, but it at the end of the night, it’s basketball. They they throw you a a problem and you have to solve it, whatever it looks like. And that’s what it is every night. And that’s that’s what it was tonight. They had different coverages, different personnel out there, and we have to attack it and and and work together as as a unit to to solve the problems out there.

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