5-20-25 Minnesota Timberwolves vs Oklahoma City Thunder Game 1 Audio | NBA WCF LIVE Cast & Chat
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The Thunder taking on the Timberwolves, six seed in the West, entering the postseason. We’re joined by head coach Mark Dagnold in advance of game one. And Mark, while that’s historic, a six seed getting to the Western Finals, first time since 95, this team is playing at a higher level than any six seed I can remember. What stands out for you about this opponent coming into the series? Well, the one thing about the seating coming in was everything was so close, you know, two through 10, you know, for so long that uh where everybody ended up was, you know, kind of a crapshoot. And so this is one of the best teams in the league since uh March 1st, since All-Star break. Um, a and they might have been all season if they had stayed healthier. They had a lot of injuries that they battled up through. And so, a team we have a lot of respect for. We understand how capable they are. They’ve played great in the playoffs as well. And so, we understand it’s going to be a tough task. They have a pretty defined eight-man rotation. The roles seem very defined in that eight-man rotation, and they’ve really excelled in beating the Lakers 4-1 in round one, in beating Golden State 4-1 in the second round, the Western Conference semi-finals. Are there specific components to what they do that stand out for you? You know, you’ve got to find a way to deal with in this series to win it. I think it’s just they’re eight deep with um really really good two-way players. They all uh bring utility on offense and they all defend in their own way and so uh they’re a team that doesn’t have a lot of holes. They’ve got good playoff depth. U they’ve got good balance and a good blend on both ends of the floor. Uh they can play different ways um especially defensively when Goar is in and when he’s out. Um, so just a team that throws a lot at you and that a lot of, you know, what they do is effective. It seems that they have found the way to integrate Julius Randall almost seamlessly as the season’s gone on since he came back from injury in early March and he had just a stellar second round against Golden State. What’s he doing well that concerns you entering this series? Mark has a matchup problem. I mean, he’s obviously a great ISO player. Always has been. Uh, he can bully smaller defenders. Uh, and then if you put bigger bodies on him, he plays in space. He picks pops. He’s shot the ball well in those situations. So, uh, he’s just a very difficult matchup and they understand what buttons to push based on who’s guarding him and what they’re doing. And so, uh, they found a nice rhythm with him. He’s integrated well with the rest of the team. He’s a really good passer in isolation situations. He’s willing to move the ball. So, he’s not a black hole there and, uh, somebody that, again, really good player that’s playing at a really high level. The maturation of Anthony Edwards seems evident in this rise for the Timberwolves. now a more willing passer it seems trusting his teammates and obviously an explosive scorer. Is he the primary um sort of uh top of the rung priority for you guys entering the series defensively? Yeah, he has to be just because of how aggressive he is and how dynamic he is um and how explosive he is. You know, he’s just a guy that you’ve got to commit uh help to and show a crowd to. Um he has done a really good job with his playmaking. He’s improved that significantly over time. Um, and it’s a large reason why this team’s playing so well is he’s activated his teammates. So, a lot of respect for him. Um, and a guy that obviously we are going to have to slow down if we want to win. More of a pressured defense it seems they bring than Denver did. Although both teams, Denver certainly showed a lot of zone against you. Minnesota did during the regular season series. Do you feel like you guys crossed a threshold against the zone against the Nuggets and persevering against them through seven? And will that serve you in this series against this team? Yeah, I think so. You know, we’ll see how much they play. you know, they’re different than Denver. Um, I think the way that they’ll play their zone is a little different as well. And so, um, if they throw that out there when they throw that out there, you know, I think the experiences we got in the Denver series are good for us. We’ve certainly worked against it quite a bit lately. Um, but this is a really good defensive team regardless of that. They haven’t played a lot of zone during the season against other people. They played a lot against us. Um, and they’ve been a team that, uh, you know, has certainly gotten stops with man-to-man as well. So, we can’t put too many eggs in one basket or the other. We just got to see where the series starts and go from there. They seem to be less three-point intensive offensively as this season or the postseason has unfolded, but doing a much better job on the offensive glass. Number two, an offensive rebound percentage. Is that an area that falls into the wheelhouse you guys need to deal with as well? Yeah, I think it’s a reflection of how they’ve been guarded to be honest with you. I think a lot of the teams they’ve played have tried to do a lot of switching against them, have tried to play one-on-one defense in the isolations, and um what that’s done is it’s limited rotation and so there’s less threes. Uh but it’s been kind of a brute force attack, especially with Randall, which gets the offensive rebounding up. So um you know, I think some of that is a reflection of who they’ve gone against. That’s one of the tricky things about playoff stats is you’re playing the same team over and over again. So it’s less of a broad sample. Uh but yeah, I mean they’ve the offensive rebounding is a reflection of size and physicality. They’re one of the bigger, more physical teams that will play. You guys showed tremendous character in warding off the Nuggets, persevering in seven, played an exceptional seventh game to win that in a blowout. Where do you have advantages going into the playoffs in general, Mark, that you want to continue to utilize, but specifically in this series that you feel like will be important as we begin play tonight? I mean, we’ve got, you know, 82 games plus two playoff series worth of habits that we’ve built. Um, and we have to be who we are with those. You know, we’ll adapt to Minnesota tactically and lineup wise and, you know, do what we always do there. But, uh, at the end of the day, it’s going to come down to us playing our identity, you know, and getting our fundamentals into the game on both ends of the floor. And that’ll be our focus. As you look at game one, coming off of the quick turnaround you played Sunday afternoon, so a day and a half to gear up and get ready for the next opponent, the Western Conference finalist, the Minnesota Timberwolves. What do you feel like is important in that transition? And are you guys ready mentally, physically? I think so. you know, you never know till the ball goes in the air. But, you know, I think um number one, we’re able to keep minutes relatively under control in that game despite the intensity of it uh because of the score. So, that was helpful. Um and it goes back to when we had the long rest, you know, going into our first and second series. It’s like um there is a sharpness that you can maintain by continuing to play that we have the opportunity to do. So, um we’ll see how we do, but you know, certainly think the guys are ready to go. Final question for you. put out a couple of keys for us as you perceive this matchup going into game one tonight. On the defensive end of the floor, I think Edwards and Randall, they are accounting for, you know, twothirds of the team’s points with their creation and scoring. Uh, so they’re, you know, obviously a high priority. Limiting them to one shot is a high priority because of their effectiveness on the glass. And then on the other end of the floor, just working possessions and getting good shots this, you know, regardless of what they’re doing defensively. It could be Gobear, it could be some of their lineups without him, which are different. Uh it could be zone, it could be anything. You know, they’ve shown a lot to us in the season and we’ve just got to be ready to be who we are regardless of what they’re doing. Congrats on getting here, coach. Good luck in game one. Thanks, man. It’s Mark Dagnel. Thunder and the Timberwolves in the first of this best of seven Western Conference Finals. Starting lineups next for you. This is Thunder Basketball. Just seconds on the clock, huh? 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Shooting guard is Anthony Edwards, a three-time all-star, the Ant-Man at 6’4, 225 in his fifth year from Georgia, pumping in 26 12 points, doing out nearly six assists and pulling five rebounds from Minnesota in beating both the Lakers and the Warriors to get to this point. Jaden McDaniels, a one-time alldefensive selection at the small forward spot at 69185. A blossoming offensive player in his 50th year in Washington, averaging 15 a game in this playoff run, pulling six rebounds. Threetime Allstar and longtime New York Knick got power forward spotted 69 250. Julius Randle in his 11th year from Kentucky, averaging 24 points in the postseason with six assists and six rebounds. Mann in the middle, seventime allstar, fourtime defensive player of the year, Rudy Gober, 71, 258 in his 12th season for France, averaging nine points, nine and a half rebounds, 1.3 blocks in the playoffs for Minnesota. Now it’s time for you to meet Thunder starting five for game one of this Western Conference final. Shay Gilis Alexander number two point guard Oklahoma City Thunder. Shay steps back, fires, angle right three-pointer online ball. SCA with the Jaylen Williams number eight small forward for the Oklahoma City Thunder down the lane to dump to the rim and scores. OKC wins in the lead to 13. Dort number five guard Oklahoma City Thunder. 3 seconds jump pass the corner right to Dort for a three at the buzzer. It’s up and in. Shena Thunder money ball. Isaiah Hartenstein 55 center Oklahoma City Thunder down the lane. Missed the layup and a big time flush over the top by Hartinstein. Oh Isaiah, don’t be so mean. Chad Homegrren number seven athlete Oklahoma City Thunder quarter left homer wide open snaps off a three that’s online chaching a thunder money ball OKC by a dozen this is Mark Dnal and we are the Oklahoma City Thunder number 40 and7 at home regular and postseason that’s an NBA best and they want to avoid the fate of the semifinal round against Denver where they were beaten just inside the buzzer by two to fall behind quickly in that series 01 would love to hold home court with game one tonight and game two Thursday. A sea of white greeting thunder as they enter the floor to begin this game. OKC clad in home white. Oklahoma blue numerals and letters trimmed in orange, yellow, and navy blue. The Wolves are in road gray with fluorescent green outlining their numerals and names as they will move from left to right across your radio. No doubt will the Wolves in this opening half. Thunder will right and left. James Capers, Tyler Ford, Mark Lindseay blow the whistles. JB D. Rosa the alternate should he be summoned. Game one, two here, two in Minneapolis. Should more be necessary, it would alternate from there. Games 5, six, and seven. And every other day pattern for the Western Finals to begin here in a matter of moments. Minnesota started this season 8 and 10. They were 22 and 21 through 43. Then they caught fire after Randall came back from injury, finishing 17-4 Thunder. NBA best 68 wins in the regular campaign. Opening tip, a horrible toss. I mean a horrific toss by Mark Lindsay is tapped back by Rudy Goar. Wow, what a start to the Western Finals. McDaniels out front. Derek Dashu does a wide open three is online and in there. Nobody within 5 ft of him. Three nothing Minnesota to begin game one. They shot it very poorly after a long layoff from series 1 to series two against Golden State, hitting 17% of their threes, losing that game by 11 as Dub loses a triple handoff from Hartinstein. Off the foot out of bounds. Thunderers first possession of game one goes bust. Minnesota a much more pressure intensive defense than Denver was around the ball. Randall on the dribble weave to McDaniels rumaging left. Left along the fire again. Hits a 16t jumper unguarded. 5 nothing Minnesota. Thunder are losing McDaniels behind screens and he’s made two uncontested shots. Dub can’t shake free of Edwards. Top of the deep given to Hartenstein plowing left reverses field hands the ball to Shay out front. Shay to the wing open. Snaps off a three-pointer that’s online. Not even close over the rim only back court. Ant-Man has the loose ball giving to Conley. Mike Speed dribbles front court. Ant-Man played out front now by Homer. isolated straight away. Dancing on the dribble, crossing over, steps back and cranks a three that’s online and in there. Eight nothing Minnesota. A minute 15 in. So, so much for a slow start for a team that was rested for the last 5 days. Shay picked up by McDaniels, the best perimeter defender the Wolves have. Sliding right back at the home pick pump fakes fires initials an angle wide 16 jumper, but got to buy the pump fake and gets to the free throw line looking to get the thunder on the board. This is not unlike the start against Denver on Sunday for Oklahoma City. And meanwhile, Minnesota’s come out with huge confidence, making all three of their shots, two of those threes for an eight- nothing advantage. SJ to the free throw line, averaging 8.7 free throw attempts in the playoffs. Misses the first here. So, OKC still has a goose egg on the board at the 1037 mark of the opening quarter. Crowd remains on its feet by tradition until the Thunder succeed offensively. Delvis Alexander up to fourth in scoring in the playoffs now at 29 a game. Nails the second foul shot that breaks the ice. OKC down seven. Mike Connley barking instructions played by SGA. Randall guarded by Dub. Randall fed on the dribble weave to McDaniels. Check by Hardenstein on the switch. Dorber wants it. Gets it low left on homer. Pump fakes. Price loses the ball. Spins to the middle getting it back. then missed a layup and then he fouls over the top of Holton, his second foul of the game. So, the Thunder job of providing length on Goar who picks up his second foul. A little more than a minute 30 into the opening quarter of game one. And I’m not sure there’s a picnic coming cuz Nas Reed’s going to check in to replace Goar. Nas Reed is a lethal three-point shooter at 47% in postseason, hitting 53% of his shots, averaging 11 points, three and a half rebounds. always been a thorn in the Thunder side in head-to-head matchups. Dort speed dribbles front court has Connley on him. Thunder down 8-1. Blue high post right enters to Hartinstein. Hand check by Reed. Caught at by Reed. Hands to Shay behind it. Shay to the wing. Draws two. Flashing left. Bullies his way to the bucket. Floats it up errantly. Forcing that eight-footer. It’s not there. McDaniels is to rebound the miss. OKC missing its first shot of this game having turned it over earlier. It’s 8-1 Minnesota. Two minutes in. Antman steps back, pump fakes. Homegrren gets the ball back at the foul line from McKenz on Antman as he spins, loses his balance, falls down. That’s a travel. They don’t call it. Loose ball scooped up by Dort shoveling to Shay. Two on three. Shay down the lane on McDaniels. Bullies his way to the bucket. Shovels to Hartenstein to the rim for the two- hand send down. A rockus assault on the rim by Hartstein. Found by SJ in transition. Makes it 8-3. Thunder saw the Wolves crank for the first eight of the game. They’ve scored three since. 938 left in the opening quarter. Connley with fluorescent light green sneakers. Walks it front court. SJ awaits his arrival. Randall handles. Guarded by Hartinstein. Back to Connley. Slot right. Mike off the stutter step down the lane. Shovel feeds right corner. McDaniels up the sideline. Randle. Pump faking right wing. Fires a three on Dort. It’s off. Long rebound. Trumbles out to Dub. Blasting back down the lane on Ant. Spins contained. Lobs it out front to Shay. Crossing over on Conley. spinning in the lane. Fouled by Connley on a reach. Three quick Minnesota team fouls with 911 left in the opening quarter. OKC will trigger far sideline front court. 15 to shoot. Remains the original starting five for the Thunder. Dort homegrren Herstein Dub and SGA. Lugens to trigger. Thunder missing their only three of this game. One of three from the field to begin. Sha fights to it. Gets it. McDaniels recovers. Ball swung to a curl cutting left. Dub down the lane on Reed across his body. Missed the layup. Loose ball fought for Reed has it. Thunder one of four up the left side. Bad pass to Randall who gathers. Plows into Dort and Lugans is going to be called for a blocking foul. That’s a Thunder’s first team foul. Dort wrong place, wrong time. A near Minnesota turnover. Thunder were not alert to that loose ball. Randall was. Bad pass by Reed. This can be a turnover team. A turnover prone team that is. Minnesota during the regular season was lower third in turnovers on their part and nearly 16 a game. Homegrren sits down. Kase Wallace checks in. Ball comes into Connley. Played by Wallace. Mike to the left wing. Gives to Ant-Man. Pulls up. Open 20 foot jumper is a beauty. Ant-Man’s made both of his first two shots. That was unguarded. Back of a big time screen by the Wolves. Threw out physically in the Thunder early in game one for a 10-3 lead. Chay blasting down the lane, leans in, scoops, blows the layup. Antman has a loose ball. Thunder made one of five shots. They look nervous right now. Anthony Edwards front court on Wallace working the angle right crossing over three times. Comes to the foul line, backs down, loses the ball. Dub ambushes him. Jaylen up the back of Randall. Lays it up on the run. Antman blocks the shot as Randall fouled Dub without a whistle. Connley back quickly sifting down the lane. Lays it up on the run. Blows the layup. Randall has a loose ball. Knocked off his body by Dort out of bounds. Thunder ball with 814 left in the opening quarter. Thunder down 103. Shay given the ball. Speed dribbles front court guarded by McDaniels. Works his way into the paint. Leans in, lays it up. No good, but he’s fouled on route by either Reed or McDaniels. Boy, nothing pretty for the Thunder offense right now. A technical foul has been called on a Wolf player. Maybe Randall, maybe Anthony Edwards. Not sure which of the two. 103 Minnesota. 807 left in the first. It’s on Anthony Edwards. SJ to the foul line where he’s one of two. Has missed his first three shots of this game. Thunder getting to the rim but not converting. They’re one of six shooting to begin game one. Jay’s first foul shot is up and good. That’s the Tech. Two more to come in a 10-4 game. Thunder made one shot thus far in this game. That was the Hartinstein dunk. Otherwise, not finishing early around the cup. May lead the league in playoff basketball on the plus side in the restricted area. Plus 7.4 points. Jay’s second foul shot good. One more to come. Thunder battling back from an eight nothing deficit to begin. They were down 21-10 with a little more than four minutes left in the opening quarter against Denver in game seven here on Sunday. Y does Alexander a chance at MVP. Lobs the third free throw. He got all three. All four of his points have come at the line early in game one. It’s 10-6. McDaniels handles crossing the timeline as Shay on him. Works the angle left as Randall behind a pick by Connley. The ball comes to Mike Connley. Randall wants it against Hartstein. Has it left corner. Julius plows the baseline. Nothing there. Pullies his way low left. Six to shoot. Across body floats it up around. No good from seven. Well defended. Harkinstein has the miss giving SJ up the right side to Dub. J K J K J K J K J K J K J K J K J K J Ken played by Edwards back to SJ near midcourt slashing left loses the ball going up as Randall fouls him. So Gildas Alexander back to the line as the Wolves out of fouls with 738 left in the opening quarter. So Shay to the stripe attempting his sixth and seventh free throws of the initial four and a half minutes of this game. Randall picking up his first. McDaniels has one. Go on the bench with two. Connley won as well. And a shave from the line is four or five. He’s accounted for four of the Thunder six points. First foul shot rolls off. So he’s missed now two of six foul shots. Thunder have not been good at the foul line by their regular season standard in postseason. They’re seventh of 16 teams that began this trek at 77%. Shay hits a second and the Thunder Peck back to within three at 10-7. Randall pretty good ball handler at 69 crossing the timeline. Hartenstein on him. widens out left will snap off an angle left three-pointer unguarded. That’s good as OKC has done a very poor job getting the shooters. Wolves have made two of three threes as Randall was in a vacant lot there for his first bucket. Chase spins on Reed to the rim. Lays it up right-handed. Lays it home. Nice whirling dervish right through the center of the Timberwolves defense making it 13-9. Thunder gets a lead in game one. 7-10 left in the first. Randall handles dub on him on a switch. Crosses over does Randle. Spins to the foul line. Back and down. draws a double, loses the ball. Wallace the steal on the tip away by Hardstein. Kase and lobbying. Hardstein gathers, bumps a two-hand rim rocker. OKC from eight down to within two at 11 1311. That’s tonight’s Boomerang Diner. Boom of the game. Reed has it. Low left on Dub backing down. Crab dribbling up the sideline to McDaniels. Plows the paint. Gives right corner. Randle catches it. Rainbow three is up and in. He’s made two threes now. Has Randall quieting the crowd with his second tray. Minnesota four to five from three. Thunder yet to make a three-pointer as Minnesota’s up 1611. Dove lobs inside to Hartstein kicking right wing to Dor sets his feet, squares his shoulders and misses a three badly off the back of the rim. Conley the rebound is nudged and fouled in the back court by Hartinstein. Thunder offense early on is not on track. Three of nine shooting, 0 of two on threes with two assists. Minnesota on the flip side’s made six of 10 shots including four three-pointers for the early edge in game one of this series. 6 noon 111 621 left in the first. This is Thunder basketball. [Music] Thunder fans, the Thunder are playing excellent basketball and Midfirst Bank has a great way for you to show our allstars your support. Score $200 and a Thunder or Rumble debit card when you open a new Midfirst checking account. Use your $200 to buy fan gear or MVP worthy apparel. 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The game’s always on at Thunder Watch Zones presented by Michelob Ultra. Find a watch zone near you at okc thunder.com/bar network. Timber have done a really good job playing from ahead throughout these playoffs and they’ve ignited early in game one against the Thunder. Wanted defense converting six of 10 shots and four of five threes. Two of those Loftton sticks by Randall. McDaniels has made one and Anthony Edwards the other. And that’s the reason Minnesota’s up 16-11. All Wolves on the backboard 6-2. That’s an area the Thunder know they’ve got to be better than they were late in that Denver series to win this one. Thunderball coming out of the stoppage. Sheay has seven of their 11. And Shay has done massive damage against the Wolves throughout his career. Last 11 against Minnesota, he’s averaged 34.2. Actually, it’s Wolves ball off the timeout. I misspoke. Up five. Edwards on the handle guarded by Casey Wallace. gets a Randall pick dub on R Edwards now on the switch as Ed as Case Wallace jabs a bounce pass to Randall away from behind and is called for holding by Mark Lindsay during that timeout the Wolves groused throughout about the officiating and we’ll see if the whistle’s even out that’s a Thunder 13 foul Dante Dvenenzo went off the bench joining McDaniels Edwards Randall and Nas Reed Edwards up top toenzo high post Randle Backing down. Doug, isolated across the lane. Jump passing left wing to Devenenzo. Lofting a three-pointer. That’s a stray. Reed’s got the rebound. Floats it up on the foul. Can’t convert. Another try won’t go as McDaniels takes it away from Wallace who strips him of the ball. That’s the fourth Minnesota turnover. Wallace across the timeline to SGA. Played by Randall. Steepway fires. The unguarded 13T jumper. A beauty. SJA found the mid-range. Has his second success. Nine points at 1613. Devenzo plows the paint. loses the ball going up as Shay knocks it away up the right side to Dub to the middle in transition. The Wolves recover. Shay fed dancing right on Randall. Shovel feeds on the baseline to Dor steps away from traffic. Delp fed near midcourt scoreless. Jaylen sizing up Antman spins into the paint down the lane. Loses the ball. fouled on a reach in by either Edwards or McDaniels as Chris Finch is beside himself at what he believes to be a lack of whistles for his guys and the Thunder getting every call. 1613 Thunder can peck to within one if Dub knocks down these two foul shots. Well, it’s evident early Minnesota’s got more length than Denver has more physicality in the way they play the game at both ends and Gunner will need to adapt and adjust. Dub ready for the first of two free throws. Lofts it and it rolls in. It wanted to crawl out but it stayed down. Coming off of a massive 24-point outing, 17 of which came in the second quarter Sunday in that game seven win by the Thunder against Denver. He during this playoff run has scored 30 plus once 20 plus six times in this game 12 for OKC. 1614. Jaylen second looks good and is. He buries them both here for his first two points of this series. And the Thunder Raptor trailing eight nothing to start or within one as Wallace pers Ant-Man fullourt. Edwards across the timeline gets a McDaniels pick highlight. Homegrren back in as McDaniels trying to shake Edwards on a second screen. Edwards back to McDaniels up top. Crossing over lost the dribble. Dub has it down the lane in transition. Blows by Randall. Thumps the two hands send down. Thunder 17. The Wolf 16. Their first lead of game one taking it away six times with 10 points thus far. 450 left in the first. Randall swiped out front by Dub. Wheels left to the baseline. Side steps two defenders. Jump passes right McN right flashes away from Dor. Sails it up top to Reed for an open straightaway three that’s online but short. Homegrren clears jammed on a double. Ball knocked out of his hand out of bounds by Edwards. It goes to the Thunder with 21 to shoot. 434 left first quarter. Nquille Alexander Walker the cousin and what Shay calls his second brother on the floor for the first time tonight. Alexander Walker joining McDaniels, Edwards, Reed, and Dante Deventenzo as Julius Randle sits down for the first time. He’s got six points. No rebounds though as OKC battling back on the glass leading 1716. Isaiah Joe an early look for the Thunder off the bench joining SJ. Case Wallace door to Chad Hong. Shay barreling right zone passing to Joe. Left corner Hong pump faking closed out by McDaniels across the lane. Whips it right corner to Wallace. Fires a three over a contest. It’s no good and not a good shot. Edwards in the vicinity as McDaniels clears up the right side. Devonza jammed by Joe to the trailing lead wide left to Edwards. 410 left in the first under by one. Edwards draws a double snaking baseline. Steps away fires a contested fadeaway 21T jumper. No good. Homer the good contest. Joe mops up the mess. Isaiah front court picked up by Alexander Walker. Comes to the right baseline contained by Edwards up the right side to SGA. Shay jab stepping on McDaniels with 10 to shoot. He’s 30 ft from the bucket. Retreating. 345 left in the first. SJ on the handle. Tripping right wing. Reed on him now. Four to shoot. Ball remains stationary. Shay cranks a wing three. A rainbow try that’s not there. Not a good possession, but Daniels has the miss on the glass. It’s 104 Wolves up the left side. Ant-Man. Shovel feeds baseline to Reed. Played by Shay. Banging to the middle. Backing down. Whips the right corner. Devenenzo catch a shoot. Open three-pointer is up and in. Dven’s made 22% of his threes in the playoffs. knocks down the Wol fifth in this first quarter to make it 1917 Minnesota. Shay gives the ball to Homer. Pestered out front by Reed slashing left through traffic. Stripped of the ball by Reed off of Chad’s body out of bounds. So the Wolves complaining is paying off. Chad was fouled multiple times by the tandem of Devincenzo and Reed that time, but no whistle. 310 left in the first. Jaylen Clark gets an early look for the Wolves off the bench. Clark in this playoff run has played only twice. Thunder are challenging this play. I believe they think there will be approximate foul called or possession coming their way. The ball is dislodged by Reed the body and either the ball off of him the thunder saw as the assistant coaches let Mark Dagnel know the challenge. Oklahoma City is telling the ruling of out of bounds. That’s James Capers, the crew chief of this threeperson refereeing trio on microphone to let you know. 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Plus, OG& will match all raffle proceeds for the foundation up to $15,000. Get your tickets now at okcunder.com/playoffs raffle. Alice Caruso in for the first time in this game. You hear the round of applause. What a job he did in game seven. What a job he’s done in the playoffs for the Thunder. Only guy on this roster that has previous conference final experience. But the Lakers in 2020 in the bubble helped the Lakers win the whole thing as they defeated Denver 4-1 in that conference final. Gil Alexander Walker out front guarded by Sheay his cousin gives it Devenenzo left hash. Six to shoot. Dvenenzo on the wing dipping the ball to Reed out front. Alexander Walker left alone. Fires a three at short. Caruso grabs a rebound under a tying two or a go ahead three. They’ve yet to make the three. Joe snaking baseline away from Deonzo. Pinned up the sideline to Caruso. Out bump plowing by Reed on the run goes glass and banks home the tying bucket. No, it’s in and out. Heart play. It was halfway down the cylinder and has the rebound. Back comes powering into Joe. No blood, no foul. Kicks rightwing Reed open. Snaps off a three to Aaron. Joe doubles back. Has a second rebound. Thunder getting stopped. 220 left in the first. Down 1917 to the Wolves. Shay guarded by Jaylen Clark. Jump pass and go to Homer. Catching, spinning, knocked down and fouled by Reed. A blocking foul with free throws coming for OKC as now Reed picks up his first. Nice collaboration by SJ and Homegrren. Well, as I mentioned, it’s clear a much more physically demanding series from the outset of game one is in the offing for Oklahoma City than what they had to deal with with Denver. Minnesota contesting every breath they take. thus far in game one. Home run to the free throw line. He’s had six double doubles on this playoff run. A 77% foul shooter. Bends his knees, eyes the rim, dips, shoots, and misses. Thunder are seven of 10 foul shooting. That will need to change as will their three-point shooting. They’re 0 of four from three-point range. Minnesota’s made five of 10. That’s a minus 15 in points. Chat readies with a second. Scoreless on the night. Misses that. Fight for the rebound. Reed has it inside. Seven of 11 Thunder foul shooting in game one. Edwards behind Reed’s interference crossing the timeline. Wallace on him looking left. Sends it wide left to Alexander Walker. Paw at by Joe holding on his right hip. Eight to shoot. Alexander Walker driving to the corner. Gives him Jaylen Clark. Spinning on Joe and a three and three in the key. Defensive violation coming on SGA. The focus has not been optimal by the Thunder in game one. 152 left in the first. They’ve made six of 14 shots, forcing six turnovers for 10 points. And Minnesota’s knocked down five of 10 threes to show the way from the outset as Edwards Lawson sticks the automatic tech. That’s the first trip to the line for the Wolves. Home run sits down scoreless with one rebound in six game minutes. Replace in the lineup by Kenri Williams. Kenri Williams dusted off after playing only four games on this playoff run for the Thunder. Edwards comes to the ball and comes out front to survey. His club up three. Angling right on the dribble guarded by Wallace. Under show his own look. Edwards now grinding wide left. Three to shoot. Up top. Alexander Walker two to shoot. Elevates and fires a pay to 18t jumper. That’s no good. Rebound fought for and Jaylen Clark grabs it and he’s grabbed by Kenri Williams. Thunder going small. They’ve got to find a way to clear their board. They’ve been dominated in rebounds thus far in game one. 126. This is an extended possession for a Timberwolves team. They’ve gotten up two more shots in the Thunder thus far. Even Chenzo will trigger near sideline. Caruso’s on Nas Reed. 135 left in the first. Edwards screens and gets it straight away on Joe Edwards double right wing. Dean Chenzo pump fakes behind the back dribbles comes baseline. Goes glass errantly from 12. Rebound far. Clark has it but it’s a shot clock violation. Ball never hit the rim, only the backboard. And that’s the Timberwolves seventh turnover. They do a good job cashing those in. They have 10 points off of those and that really is their offense right now yet to make a three in four tries down three. 2017 115 left in the first Shay hestered by Clark out front. Clark a secondyear man. Shave penetrates and kicks left winged Joe for a rainbow three in there under money ball. Zay with the tray. It’s tied at 20. And that’s what he can do. He can bust open that defense that’s crowding the lane. Edwards guarded by Wallace top of the zone off the stutter step. Works right of the paint. gives it up straight away to Alexander Walker. Walker screening from Edwards gets it. Alexander Walker back to Edwards. Back spotlight Alexander Walker firing an angle right three. That’s no good. Rebound. Clark just bullied his way against Caruso. Grabbed it and laid it in. 2220 Minnesota. They’ve got the game’s first second chance points and lead by a bucket. 40 seconds left in the first. Shay hand checked by Clark at midcourt. Gets to Joe Pick. Scrams right. Floats it up on the run. Wanted a foul. No whistle. Misses badly off the outlet. Bad pass thrown by Reed, corraled by Devincenzo with 28 seconds left in the first. Minnesota the ball and a two-point lead. Their defense has been stealth in this opening court. Edwards pushing off on Wallace, blinding left down the lane, runs into Caruso, banks it up, no good. Caruso’s contact with Edwards came after the foul call on a weekend by Wallace and Ant-Man goes to the free throw line to shoot two. holding his right leg. It looks like hobbling a little bit as a result of potentially knee to knee contact. I’m not sure there’s a foul on that play, but the Thunder have used one challenge and they’re done. So, the challenge that they administered was not successful, so they have no challenges remaining. Edwards to the free throw line. Minnesota’s shown the way shown the way throughout Thunderb one time or two times thus far in this game. Edward’s first free throw is perfect. The Wolves are two of two at the line. Winning the rebounding battle decisively 15-6. And that was the number one key coming into game one in my mind was rebounding defensive boarding. And OKC’s done a poor job there getting up five fewer shots than Minnesota thus far in this game despite taking the ball away seven times. Edwards with a second. Rolls off. Kenri Williams clears and OKC gets it back down three. Last shot time. Shot clock off. 15 seconds left in the first. Wallace on the handle guarded by Jaden McDaniels stationary from 40. 7 seconds left. Gets a Shay hit. Angles right giving a Shay straight away. 3 seconds slashing left. Pulls up from the wing. Cranks a 20ft jumper. Barely graze the rim. And that’s how the quarter ends. Timberwolves came in and they laid physical contact on the Thundering OKC to 35% shooting. One of five on threes. The Wolves have led virtually throughout by as many as eight and own a 23-20 lead over the Thunder going to the second quarter of game one of the Western Conference Finals. This is Thunder Basketball. What if you could make your energy dollars go further this summer? Switch to OG& Smart Hours and pay nearly half price for electricity for 19 hours every weekday and all weekend long. So go ahead, bake an extra batch, stream another episode, and make your evenings cooler. Just switch your energy use to the 19 daily smart hours to help the grid, the environment, and your wallet. Sign up today to receive nearly halfpriced electricity at [Music] og.com/smartour. Midfirst Bank is proud to be the official bank of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the exclusive provider of the Thunder and Rumble debit cards. 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Anthony Edwards has limped back to the locker room between quarters for the Timberwolves, favoring his right leg after a collision with Caruso late in that first quarter. He leads the Wolves with seven points. Randall has six. Minnesota showing the way in game one, getting up four more shots than the Thunder thanks to a four- nothing offensive rebound advantage, a 15-7 boarding edge overall. They’ve made five threes thus far in game one. The Thunder won, Minnesota five of 11 from distance, OKC one of five. Thunderball to begin the second down by three at 23-20 in a game they’ve trailed by as many as eight. Reserve your spot for the next season of Thunder Basketball. Deposits for 2025 2026 season ticket memberships are officially open. Get ahead of the game and lock in your deposit now at okcunder.com/memberships. OKC coming with Caruso, Kase Wallace, JDub, Aaron Wiggins, and Isaiah Hartinstein down three as Devon Chenzo provides on ball pressure on Wallace. High post Hartinstein fed hands to Dove who’s bumped and fouled by Dven Chenzi. Well, the Wolves are just taking no quarter physically. They’re paying the price with fouls to war being called against them. Thunder are not maximizing those opportunities though. Seven of 11 free throwing thus far. Randall Gobear, Connley, Devincenzo, and Alexander Walker for the Wolves. Wallace hand checked by Dvenenzo at the foul line feeding dub. Elevates in fades. His angle left 15oot jumper. Not close. Rebound tipped out. Claimed by Devincenzo right now. Now the Wolves dominating the glass. Randall fed left corner guarded by Wiggins. Quick swivels backing down now. Grinded across his body finds Conway. Slot right to Devenenzo. 10 to shoot. Crowded by Wiggins. Back to Randall. Picked up by Caruso. Seven on the shot clock. Plowing left to a strong hand down the lane. Lays it up. No good. But he’s fouled on route to the rim. Poorly defended sequence by the Thunder there. Shot clock pounding down and they allowed Randle to get to a strong hand on the drive. So Julius Randle goes back to the free throw line. Foul was on JDub, his first. Wolves have been a step in front of a Thunder thus far in game one, honestly. And OKC’s got to find a way to bridge that gap. Julius Randle from the line in the playoffs has been 11th best at 89%. The lefty strokes in first and buries it. Wolves are three of four at the line. The Thunder seven of 11 in game one and Minnesota up 16-7 in rebounds. 11:23 left in the second. This is about the time the Thunder caught fire in the seventh game Sunday against Denver. 24-20 Minnesota here. Randall missed the second short and Hartinstein clears inside for the Thunder. His second rebound picked up in the back court is dubbed by Alexander Walker. Wide right Wiggins behind the back dribbles escaping Conley to the baseline. Leans in floats a runner. No good from 12. Leaping rebound Walls who stepped out of bounds. Right now, the Thunder have no comfort offensively where they’re six of 19, 31%. And as a result, they trail by four. Connley speeds up the left sideline on the dribble. On the dribble, weave to Alexander Walker. High post right squeezed by Caruso back near midcourt to Connley. Swooping baseline, lays it up off the backboard with a right hand 10-ft runner. Not close. Quiggins has the miss. Hinback dribbling in transition. Nothing there. Up top to Hardenstein. Facilitate holding slot right. Bounce feeds back door to Wallace. Pin by Gobear out front intended for Dub. Bad pass stolen by Dvenenzo. Down the lane spinning to the trailing Goar side steps, stripped gets it back left corner. Dvenenzo catch a two-3 off. Dubs got the miss. A minute 30 of the quarter. Thunder scoreless in the frame as Wiggins gets it. Left corner intended to Wallace. He telegraphed the pass. It’s deflected out by Alexander Walker. Thunder have four turnovers early in game one. Minnesota seven, 19 to shoot. Nothing coming easily for Thunder offense. They have three assists, six made shots from the field. Caruso to trigger lobbing down the lane. Dub catching pumps faking to the trailing Hartstein for a push shot from seven that goes. That was well done. Thunder with their fourth assist. Jaylen Williams has his first. Isaiah Hartenstein scoring for the third time. It’s 24-22. Alexander Walker straight away to Randall. Poked at by Caruso. Behind the back dribbles, isolated. Crossing over. Gives it up on the wing. Alexander Walker open. Strokes a three. That’s a straight. Dub has the rebound. Back tapping to Hardenstein. Thunder sneak the lead with a three. The two would tie. Dub across the timeline. Back of a Kuso kick down the lane. Lobbying. Hardstein gathers and bumps. A two-hand rim rocker. It’s deadlocked at 24. Thunder. Lethal in transition. They battle back from eight down to lock it up at 24 with 950 left till halftime. Deenzo slot right to Alexander Walker behind a go bear pick. Nothing there. Back to Devenzo surfing left to right. Stabilizes fires. It’s for three. It’s not close. Long rebound run down by Caruso. Save to Dub up the left side to Wiggins. Aaron probing behind the back dribbling. Can’t shake Connley yet. Gives it up to Hartinstein. High right. Holding the big man hands behind him to Dub. Jaylen to the top of the key. Spins in deep. Tied up by Alexander Walker. Loses the ball to go. Alexander Walker on it up the left side to Randle. Wolf defense. Impressive. Randall spinning out of a double. Paul Swans right. Deanzo wide open. Strokes a three. It’s in and out. No good. Caro’s got the miss. Long leading dub. One-on- two. Jaylen to the right wing. Widens out. Hits Hardenstein up top. Trailing left wing. Wiggins. Thought about a three, but Connley closes in space. 12 to shoot. Wheeling right. Wiggins down the lane. Lays it up on Go. Scoops. Can’t score. No foul as he’s knocked down as Randall has to miss. It’s 24 apiece. Randall plows back. Contained by Caruso. Fouls him in transition with his first. 852 left in the second. This has not been pretty. Neither side in flow offensively. Minnesota eight of 26 from the field, 30%. OKC 8 of 23 34%. The difference is the Wolves have made five threes. The Thunder won 24 a piece 852 left in the second quarter of game one. Conley the inbound does left corner Devenenzo holding on the wing gets Ober gets it back driving kicks right corner Alexander Walker straightaway. Randall keys up a long 27t three-pointer that’s good. Randle’s made two three-pointers, has 10 points to lead all scorers and it’s 2724 Minnesota doing it from distance. Third best in the league in three-point accuracy in the regular season. Wallace at midcourt pester by Connley nearly gave it up. Grinding right now back of a moving Hartstein pick that wipes out Connley. That’ll be a second foul on Isaiah Hartenstein. Minnesota remains a step in front of the Thunderus far in game one. Up 2724 regaining possession and doing it this quarter without Ant-Man. He’s back in the locker room being attended to for what looked to be a lower right leg injury incurred late in the first quarter. Alexander Walker zigs and zags to activate for the Wolves up top to Randall. Isolated on Caruso retreats. Goar screens high left. Randall behind it. Ducking right. Plows into Caruso. Offensive foul called on Randall. Excellently done by Caruso anticipating the lower end of the right shoulder by Randall who has his second foul. He joins Gobear with two for the Wolves. That’s a Minnesota turnover. for the eighth of game one. 812 left in the second quarter and the Thunder find some offensive continuity. It’s been hard to come by. Wallace high post right to Hardenstein. Hand check by Gobear. The lane is vacated. Hardenstein drives. Closed it up. Blocked by Gobear. Telegraphed it. Wallace on the loose ball. Right wing Caruso. He wants three. Give it to him. She’ll sing it under the money ball from the right flank. Alice Caruso lost and sticks the game tying bucket. Third tie is what we’re looking at. Two lead changes at 270. Vincenzo right corner. Alexander Walker wide open for three. Lost it. Leaves it short. Long rebound tipped out by Caruso, but Randall has it. Stroking an angle left three-pointer that’s online and good. Julius Randle. The story in game one. Four threes, 13 points. 3027 Minnesota. They’ve now scored six second chance points. A Thunder three. Dub right of the paint. contained dishing to Hartstein for a floating 10footer of the tough and in over goar ihart with 10 points leading the thunder 3029 Minnesota 5 minutes elapsed in the second Alexander Walker had the ball poked away from behind by Dub trying to save it along the sideline but ran out of wheel space 3029 Alexander Walker a shaky ball handler running the attack Minnesota’s given it up eight times for 16 under points that’s OKC salvation thus far in the first game they’ve made five fewer threes than Minnesota thus Demon Chenzo on the handle. Dub on him. Crossed him over down the lane. Burst kicks left corner. Alexander Walker wide open stroking the three-pointer. That one’s good. Very poorly played sequence by the Thunder. They’re beaten off the bounce and late to recover. Minnesota eight of 19 from three, 42%. And that’s what separates these two teams right now. Timberwolves 33, the Thunder 29. 71 left in the second quarter. 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Gideon Hamilton welcome you back inside Paycom Center. The Eastern Conference finals will begin tomorrow. The New York Knicks will have homecourt advantage over the Indiana Pacers. Indiana is by far the best shooting team over postseason play both from the field and three-point distance. Meanwhile, the Knicks have been resilient, winning eight of 12 games despite trailing in the fourth quarter in 11 of those 12. Here’s Matt Pinto. Good thing stay in the game this summer with Thunder youth basketball camps presented by Simple Modern. With camps all summer long, there’s something for every athlete looking to thunder up their skills. Find a camp that fits your schedule at okc.com/summeramps. Thunder knew that Julius Randall was a hot player entering the series, and he’s not yet been cooled. He’s the difference in game one thus far. Julius Randall has 13 points in 12 minutes, four of five on three-pointers, four of six from the field. He also has a couple of rebounds and one assist. Anthony Edwards is back on the Timberwolf sideline boopping around appears to be okay. He’ll enter the game joining Rudy Goar. Dante Danchenzo Randall Nquille Alexander Walker for Minnesota. Shay Gilis Alexander is back for the Thunder with Chad Homegrren scoreless in this game. Aaron Wiggins, Lou Dort, and Kase Wallace. Then they’re trying to find a five that will coalesce offensively. A 38% shooting outfit thus far in game one. Two of six on threes and seven of 11 foul shooting. They’ve dominated the paint 14-2 over Minnesota, but the Wolves have made eight three-pointers thus far in this game to lead 33-29. Shay up the right side between the rings to Wigan. Tied up by Steven Chenzo. No whistle. Wiggins giving the ball leftan plows inside on a handoff by Hogan and spurts the layup off the left flank under 16 in the pay. Back within two. 33-331. Denzel on the handle straight away. Lobbing and feeding high post right to Randle. Guarded by Dort Boding. Boaz ultramuscular Randall right corner to a wide open Alexander Walker missing the shot. Goose ball tipped out of bounds by Holgren who couldn’t get a body on Goar and keep him from getting a piece of that loose change. And that’s becoming a story line in this game one. 196 Wolves on the glass. 14 to shoot. Goar handles left wing, gives the ball to Devenenzo out front. Dvenenzo sifting left wing, hooks the ball up top to Alexander Walker. Slicing left on Wiggins down the lane, spins in faith, gives up Porto Randle contained by Dort plows the baseline, but the shot clockwide violation. Couldn’t get the shot up. Dort an excellent close out, not allowing Randall look from three. That becomes the Wolves ninth turnover. Those have fueled the Thunder to 16 points. OKC gets it back down to 3331 as McDaniel’s readying to reenter for the Wolves midway through the second. SJ between the circles gliding right post up pops fadeaway 13 foot jumper won’t drop it short he is now two of nine in game one and done for the Edwards on the handle crossing the timeline shadowed by Wallace right wing to Randall plowing on Wiggins double by homer spin baseline a fadeaway 20oot jumper a beauty having his way in game one with 15 points in 13 minutes wolves back up four 3531 Alexander picked up by Alexander Walker his cousin angles Right. Lobs inside to Homer. Can’t catch it. Loses the ball. Falling down. Go the steal. Right wing Devenenzo to the baseline. Swooping away from Wiggins. Back to Goar across his body. Missed a layup. Got in too deep. Wiggins has a loose ball. Slashing back. Runs the ball down. Deflected by Denzo on the right corner. Wiggins. Bounce feeds left wing to Wallace. Pador for an angle left rainbow three-pointer. Not a good shot. Not there. Wiggins tips a rebound and gets the ball back inside. Horn lays it up on Gobear. can’t convert a layup as go bear denied him. But good look is for Ant-Man’s got another rebound. Left wing to Randle for a long 30 foot first-pointer off the flank. He nails that. He has 18 first game points and the Wolves expand the lead to eight. 3831 thanks to nine threes. Five of those by Randall. SJ right to left on the perimeter. Ducking down the paint, lays it up left-handed. It rolls off. Thunder can’t convert a shot. Loose ball Randall up the sideline. Devenzo right wing pull up for three. In and out. No good. Bear grabs the miss. Hongren ties him up and those two will jump it up down in the Minnesota end with 438 left in the second. The Wolves are a far more focused and locked in team right now than the Thunder. And they’ve made nine three-pointers. Five of those from Julius Randle in this opening half. Randall and Devenenzo check out. Reed and McDaniels back in for the Timberwolves as OKC trails in the quarter 1511 and in the game 3831. Wiggins sits down. Wallace, Bartenstein, Homegrren, Dort, and SJ the five for Oklahoma City. The Bear should control this tip at 7-1. 438 left in the quarter. 12 to shoot for the T- walls. Both guys in the crouch. Ball in the air and back tap to Edwards who holds top of the key. He retreats. Wallace on it. Rober screens high right. Edwards behind him, ducking left, spinning. Five to shoot into traffic. Steps to the bucket. Floa Bankshot up. No good. Loose ball kicked to the corner. Alexander Walker fires a shot at the buzzer. No good at the shot clock buzzer. Hardine has a miss. Skipping to Dort down the lane on Reed. Contained to the trailing Wallace drives the paint. Kicks right wing. Hold flashing left on Gobear in deep. Spins and fade. Sixoot jumper. Good. So Holren breaks the seal. It’s 3833. Thunder down five. Back quickly. McDaniels up the right side. Drifts to the wing on Holton. Comes out front giving to Reed. Plowing baseline. Shovel feeding Goar at the rim for the dunk. Way too easy. Quickly paced attack for the Wolves. Nets go first bucket of game one. And the Wolves a seven-point lead. SGA between the rings. Challenge by Edwards. Gives it right wing to Wallace. Wide open. Snaps off a rainbow three. It’s in there. Sits hanging under money ball. That was well done. Case Wallace’s first basket of game one. Makes it 4036. OKC nailing only third three in eight tries. SG has his third assist. McDaniels Copskin a dribble the lead. Wants three back. Angle right gets none. side rims the shot. Hardenstein on the fourth rebound giving Gas Jay. Thunder down four. Chay across the timeline goes behind the back on the dribble. Squeezed by McDaniels. Ball knocked away off of Shay out of bounds by McDaniels. And now they’ll reverse that call, I think. Along the sideline, James Capers called it Wolves ball. I thought one of the officials saw it the other way, but apparently not. Minnesota calls a timeout with 319 left in the quarter. Shay dribbled off the leg of the defender, McDaniels, and then it hit the ref. That ball’s off the foot of McDaniels. Initially, Shay got it back, then dribbled off the leg of McDaniels, out of bounds, but James Capers calls it Minnesota ball. The Timberwolves making their own luck in game one. Outstanding defense corelling the Thunder attack. 319 left in the second. A timeout taken it that will take. 4036 Timberwolves in possession on the other side. This is Thunder Basketball. What if you could make your energy dollars go further this summer? Switch to OG& Smart Hours and pay nearly half price for electricity for 19 hours every weekday and all weekend long. So go ahead, bake an extra batch, stream another episode, and make your evenings cooler. Just switch your energy use to the 19 daily Smart Hours to help the grid, the environment, and your wallet. Sign up today to receive nearly halfpriced electricity at og.com/smartour. 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[Music] One special night. Tickets on sale now at ticketmaster.com. Don’t miss Stevie Nicks live at Paycom Center. Welcome back inside Paycom Center. Right now, the Wolves with a four-point lead, but Oklahoma City doing more damage on the interior. They’ve taken over twice as many free throws as Minnesota, and they’ve outscored them in the paint so far, 18-4. Here’s Matt Pinto. Getting excited to celebrate the playoffs. Loves is doubling the fuel discount at all Oklahoma stores on home game days. With the Loves app, you’ll get 20 cents off gas and 30 cents off diesel all day with Thunderplay at home. Download the Loves app and save. Next game at home will be Thursday, game two of this series. 7:30 here. Hunter getting up five fewer shots than the Wolves because they’ve allowed seven offensive rebounds to Minnesota and turn the ball over seven times themselves in this game. Five of those giveaways coming in this second quarter. Thunder made six fewer threes than the Timberwolves and the T- Wolves riding that hot long range shooting to a lead of four. They’ve been up by as many as eight. Thunder’s largest lead one 319 left in the half. Thunder. Two fouls to give the Wolves three. SGA, Jayd Doug, Alice Caruso. Isaiah Hartenstein, and Lou Dort for the Thunder against Goar, Edwards, Connley, Reed, and McG. Edwards handles near midcourt. 12 to shoot. Swooping right, pulls up, fires a three straightaway. That’s in and out. No good. Dis Alexander grabs his first rebound of this game. He’s two of 10 shooting thus far. Weaving right into the paint. Kicks out rightwing to Dub. Barreling to the free throw line. Nothing there. sends the ball to Caruso beyond the arc. Now back to Dub. Retreating the big court, 10 to shoot. Hartinstein swings McDaniels. Nothing materializes. Dub sends it in mid court to Shay. Four to shoot. Shay dancing left, crossing over on Gobear. Two to shoot. He does a wing rainbow prayer not answered. No rim only backboard out of bounds as a shot clock violation. Shay is two of 11 shooting, nine points, none in the second quarter. Randall is back in. That’s bad news. He has 18 of the Wolves 40 points. has made five three-pointers thus far in game one. [Applause] He sits down Go and he’s guarded by Jay Dub with 239 left in the half. Dub one of six shooting. Homegrren one of three. Shay two of 11. Dort 0 of two among starters. Henstein has made five of six and has 10 points. Connley against two zone. Working up top slot left to Reed. Holding closed out by Carisso on the dribble weed to Connley slashing and kicking left corner Randall closed out by Hartstein drives by him on the run. Banks it on on the fly. No good from 12 lead foul by Hartstein trying to recover from behind. Iheart three fouls now as Randall has a Thunder in a massive matchup pickle. 222 left in the half. He’s dominated this first game’s first half. Julius can get to 20 points before halftime. His playoff scoring high is 31. his career scoring high in a regular season game 51. Randall Larks the first. That one’s up and good. He’s two of three at the line. Has 18 points including five three-pointers and has his team up five right now with 222 left in the second quarter. Homegrren in joining Caruso, SGA, Jub, and Lou Dort. Randall giving the ball for the [Applause] second. Very deliberate. Left foot in front of the right. arcs the free throw and sticks it. He’s got 20 first half points. Best straight game with 20 or more for Rando. Thunder down six. Wolves show a one-tw2 zone in the lane. Homegrren dishes baseline. Dort for the dunk. Thunder carve it up immediately getting the ball right to the solar plex defense and the Thunder have 20 points in the paint. The four for the Wolves but trail the game 4238. Edwards out front zigging and tagging back of the Daniels. Pick ducking to the right wing cranks a three that’s online and good. Anthony Edwards makes his second three of the half. He has 10 points as the Wolves burying the Thunder from distance have 10 made threes in the half. Ball swung to do left pointer Dort closed out by Edwards. Drives and hits Caruso penetrating throws it away to Randall. Wolves get it back up 7. 4538. Reed right at the paint. Hands to Connley. Slot right. Randall 15 to shoot. Reed wants it back. Gets it off the post against Dub. bangs backing him down. Loses the ball. Dub took it away. Three to scoreless. Sha fed down the lane against three to the rim. Scoops it. Leaves it short. Another miss shot by Shay who’s two of 12. Reed back quickly. The trailing amp Edwards closed out by Dort. Fouls left in deep. Runs into Caruso and Alice Caruso fouls him with a block. 114 left in the second. The Wolves are making the plays they need to make. Keep the crowd relatively quiet here at Paycom Center. Edwards to the free throw line to build on his 10-point performance. He has four rebounds as well. Thunder shooting 37% in this game, making only seven of 11 free throws. Sheay is two of 12 with nine. Edwards rattles in the foul shot. Minnesota pulling away by eight, matching its largest lead of game, one that was 8- nothing to start this game. 4638 Minnesota. Timberwolves have been outstanding on the road in the playoffs where they’re 4-1 for the season, 28-18 away from home. Caruso sits down with two fouls. Isaiah Joe summoned by Mark Dagnold trying to find five guys that will coalesce and generate sustained offense. Thunder held to 38 points thus far. Edwards hits both and the Thunder are down nine. Their largest deficit at 4738. 111 left in the first half. Flashing left. Shay spinning across his body. Scoops. It’s blocked going up by McDaniels. Jay two of 13. Edwards on the loose ball. Left wing to Randall. Left corner to Conley. fires a three on Dort. Leaves it short. That’s not a good shot. Joe retrieves. 50 seconds left in the second. Lumber grinding offensively. Held to 16 points in the quarter as McDaniels knocks Shay down along the sideline and commits a foul. Intent there was clear. Make Shay work first on McDaniels. First team foul on the Wolves in the game’s last two minutes. Both sides out of fouls now with 49.8 left in the second quarter. Wolves have come in and really administered their will in this opening half. up nine right now. 4738. Thunder at 20 in the first. They scored 18 cents. Dor the trigger. Shay knocked down by Edwards off the ball. No whistle. Ball comes to Joe on the left wing and Edwards is standing over the top of Shay. Pull something. Edwards pushes Shay and finally gets whistled for a foul, his second. But it’s clear the Wolves intent. Wear Shay Gildes Alexander down. And they’ve done that in this opening half by results. Shay’s two of 13 shooting, five of seven free throwing. He’s been held to nine points. 4738 Minnesota with 446 left to play in the opening half. Kase Wallace will check in between foul shots. Shay gathers himself from the line. Thunder have not been good at the line in this game. They’re seven of 11. Minnesota 7 of nine. Shay five of seven. His first foul shot is up and good. His first point of the second quarter comes with 44.6 6 seconds left between now and halftime. Isaiah Joe out. Kase Wallace in for the Thunder. Thunder down eight. 4739 in game one of this best of seven Western Conference final. Minnesota mighty impressive to begin this game. 10 threes made. Randall has 20. Jay’s second free throw is pure. Give him 11. And the Thunder are down by 7. 4740. 44.6 left in the half. Thunder seek a stop. Connley on the handle, picked up by SJ crossing the timeline. Pounds it at the Thunder logo. So Curl cutting Edward blasting down the lane. Missed a duck, but he’s fouled by Dort going up. 35 seconds left in the second. That’s the energy that Minnesota’s come in with from the start. They grabbed the early eight nothing lead. And honestly, although the Thunder have led a couple of times by one, Minnesota’s dominated this first half of game one. Edwards four or five from the foul line. Dork picking up his second foul. Edwards makes the first foul shot as the Wolves are taking care of their business at the line on the road. Eight of 10 4842 Wolves. Joe in, Dort out. Lugan scoreless tonight from three of two from the field has made one of three shots. Edwards second free throw looks good, but it’s not good. In and out. Rebound run down to the corner by Holgren. Edwards all over him. Chad needs help as we have what an issue with the clock. 30.2 left in the half. 4840 Minnesota T-Wolves led by three after one. They’ve expanded that lead to as large as 96. Dub acquired half four points. Shay acquired half two of 13 shooting. Homegrren has only two points on one of three shooters. Chase speed dribbles front court down the lane on McDaniels. Elevates jump passing loaded dub. Pump faking twice. Lays it up left-handed. Lays it in. That was well done. Thunder attempted a two for one possession scenario, but they just missed it. Shot clock’s off. 20 seconds left in the half and Oklahoma City down 48-42. Edwards to the chant of defense out near midcourt. Guarded by Joe Dub now switches on him. Ball comes high post right to Randall. Played by Wallace from behind. Dub knocks it away. Ambushing Jaylen down the lane on Edwards. Pump fakes, lays it up, blows the layup. Joe has the loose ball and he’s fouled going up by either Edwards or Randall. If it’s Edwards, it’s going to be his third foul. If it’s Randall, it’s going to be his third. That’s a key sequence. Thunder coming up with their 11th takeaway of game one. Those have been cashed in for 16 points thus far. That foul was on Randall, his third. Isaiah Joe to the free throw line. Joe has made a three in this game. He’s five of six from the line in the playoffs. Getting more of a run tonight, 6 minutes worth in this opening half than he did late in that Denver series. Radies for the first. Bends his knees, eyes the rim, dips, shoots, and swishes. OKC within five. 4843. hanging in resourcefully despite not playing well offensively in this opening game. 1.7 left till halftime. Thunder down 5 4843 as they were down nine moments ago. Joe readies with a second cast it sticks it. Thunder down four deep back court. Edwards fires a 70footer one end to the other. Well, well short of the bucket. Thunder weather a 20-point barrage by Randall. Trail by only four at halftime. 4844 closing the quarter 61 the final 44 seconds. Halftime coming with Gideon and Matt. Next, this is Thunder Basketball. Whether watching your favorite team play or getting through the day, clear vision is important. For 50 years, the doctors at the nationally ranked Dean McGee Eye Institute have been committed to helping Oklahomaans achieve their best possible vision. 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This is the Oklahoma City Thunder halftime show with Gideon Hamilton and Matt Raves now on the Oklahoma City Thunder Radio Network. Hey, welcome in everyone. We’re back inside Paycom Center and it is the Oklahoma City Thunder halftime show. I’m Gideon Hamilton. I’m joined by Matt Ravos. This is game one of the Western Conference Finals and at the break, Minnesota leads Oklahoma City 48 to 44. And we know Minnesota has been able to hit uh some three-point shots. Now, they went ice cold as the first half went along, started missing a bunch of those attempts. Oklahoma City really hasn’t taken many because Minnesota, Matt, has elected to defend them from a conventional manup perspective and Oklahoma City has uh been getting to the rim on them. They’ve outscored uh the Timberwolves in the paint by an incredible margin, 22-4. Uh they’ve outscored them off of turnovers 18-4 uh which is enormous. Uh for most of the first half they had shot two or three times as many free throws as Minnesota had. Um and have outshot the Wolves in all disciplines percentage-wise from the field from three and from the free throw line. It’s just that Minnesota has made uh some of those shots that are worth a little bit more. But in terms of what Oklahoma City is doing right now, they’re kind of dominating the game in a lot of facets. Yeah, it’s just that the uh well, first, you know, before I say the offense is clunky, which it has been at times in the in the first half, um you got to give some credit to Minnesota’s defense is definitely a more physical defense than Denver, right? This is a defense that is more lengthy, uh is better at defending Shay and and Shay really really struggled two and 13 in the first half and Thunder did have 22 points in the paint. Uh but we’re only 11 of 27 on those opportunities. And you know, you’re right, Oklahoma City did shoot better percentage. It’s a problem though that Denver’s or excuse me, Minnesota’s gotten up 20 more three-pointers than Oklahoma City has made seven more. So, they’re plus 21. Uh they’re getting up more three-point shots. Um they’re able to find pretty good looks where Oklahoma City’s defenders haven’t been able to close out. Know a lot of those are guys that you want shooting. Nquille Alexander Walker, for example, putting up seven three-pointers in the first half. That’s a win. Dante Devinczo, six three-pointers. Both those guys are shooting sub 30% this postseason. Nas Reed 0 for three. So you look at those three off the bench that typically uh you’re going to be comfortable with from a wideopen perspective and they were a combined two of 16 together. Uh you never venture to uh make any kind of assumptions uh that are go against Oklahoma City in any game. But I I would venture to guess those guys might make a couple of shots uh in in the second half of this game. Another development during Anthony Edwards uh missed a little pocket of time at the beginning of the second quarter and this is nothing new to Wolves fans. Unfortunately for Anthony, this has happened a couple of times during the regular season and now during the postseason where Anthony on a drive landed on his ankle. We didn’t know if that was an ankle or calf issue, but it kept Anthony in the locker room for a number of minutes before he came back out. And Matt, he’s been noticeably affected by it. No, not so much affected when he tried to end the career of flu door on a dunk attempt which I would have been somebody would have had to catch me over the the bench but he’s he’s obviously feeling the effects whatever he’s dealing with. Well, yeah. I mean, I was just talking about to you like maybe 5 minutes in real time before that. I I don’t know if Ant-Man can move really well out there and then he detonates or tries to detonate. I mean, it demonstrates his 40, you know, uh 45 inch vertical or whatever it is. You could tell me a number and I would I would believe you. Um, and so, yeah, he’s going to continue to play through that. That’s what he does. I almost feel like sometimes ankle injuries make Ant-Man even even stronger. Not to be flippant about it, but he’s a guy who’s very tough and can play through those things. And, um, did did very well to do that. But, I got to tell you, I mean, the Minnesota Timberwolves, I’m sure you want to talk about this, don’t get through that first half with a lead without Julius Randle’s incredible shotmaking. Julius Randle’s shotmaking, and that’s it. because and you tell me if I’m I’m being too harsh here. Uh but he picks up a a horrible third foul late in the first half, being blissfully unaware when he’s backing down or holding the basketball on a couple of occasions have really cost this team. And I feel like when he has driven a couple of times, he’s been uh fortunate to be able to end up at the free throw line because I don’t think there was a lot of rhyme or reason for that. Now, the the shooting, obviously, you’re correct. He’s five of six from three-point distance, and he knocked down another uh tough jump shot, but outside of that, it’s almost like you’re more comfortable with him being a catch and shoot option only in the second half. No, certainly you you are because, uh, if you’re a Oklahoma City, uh, you would think, okay, well, this is a guy whose careerhigh in three-point makes is five. He has equaled that in one half of basketball. Typically, that’s not followed up with another nuclear half of basketball. Not to say he can’t, but um I I don’t think you can rely on the three-point shot for him um if you are Minnesota. And that’s where others are going to have to step in. But that was um I mean, you just got to give him credit because they were I I’m not sure he was touching the rim on any of those on any of those makes. Yeah. And they they had uh different peaks. Uh yeah, where they were about to touch the ceiling. Jaden McDaniels hit the first two shots of the game, I think, for Minnesota, and then didn’t do anything offensively the rest of the way. Did have four rebounds and picked up a couple of fouls. And that’s something that Bears watching here. Isaiah Hartinstein has three fouls for Oklahoma City, but on the other end, Rudy Goar had to miss a lot of time. He picked up two very early just in the first two or three minutes in. Oh, look at this. And we got Jose and Tom here, too. [Music] Thank you for hanging out with us this afternoon for our playoff pulse campaign this evening, whatever time it is where you’re watching from. We appreciate you being here. Now’s the time of the show. 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And we’re going to heal the future. There is an opportunity for a wide open shooter in the corner. There’s a couple times where Caruso was open and and Shad didn’t see him behind. Like just instances like that, I think you can hunt some some open three-point shots. And then uh continuing to score off of turnovers eventually the math is so far skewed in your favor to where there’s nothing that the opposition can really do to come back. And for Minnesota, it’s those unaware uh turnovers. It’s those unforced turnovers. Oklahoma City is going to get the ball from you. That’s just a given in in Thunder basketball. You can’t make mistakes against them. No, you can’t. And that’s Minnesota’s problem. They turn it over a lot and and they go through stretches offensively where they can can certainly give it to the other team. That’s why they have to play Mike Connley. Mike Connley has been not very good for them, but they have to play him because he organizes their offense. 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Fuel up like a champ today. Boomerang Diner. It all starts here. Welcome back inside PCOM Center where the Timberwolves have a four-point lead over the Thunder at the break. Here with the second half is Matt Pinto. Wolves led by three after one, jumped out 8- nothing to begin game one of this series. And they’ve held the lead the vast majority of the initial 24 minutes. Thunder closed the second relatively strong though 6-1 to battle back from nine down to within four at the break. Really rough going for the Thunder offense. Their top three guns. Jayd Dub, Chad Homegrren, Shay Gilvas Alexander combined five of 24 shooting, collaborating for 19 first half points. Shay has 11 of those thanks to seven coming at the foul line. He’s two of 13 from the field. JDub’s two of eight. He scored six. Also has four steals in this game. Then coming up with eight steals overall, forcing 11 turnovers for 18 points. That certainly kept them in this game. She had a really rough go. Two points, one of three shooting, has two rebounds, two assists thus far in this one. Julius Randall has been the individual story for the Timberwolves. He’s made five three-pointers in game one, five of their 10 as a team. He’s got 20 points already. He’s plus three in the 17 and 1/2 minutes he’s played. Can the Thunder get a handle on Randall defensively and then can they find a little continuity in flow offensively where they’re three of eight from three, 15 of 40 shooting overall, only 37%. Edwards has 13 points. Appeared to have tweaked a right ankle that’s given him problems during the course of this playoff run for Minnesota, but he came back with a vengeance to close the half. He’s five of seven from the foul line. He’s made two threes himself. Thunderball to begin the second half. Minnesota averaging what is a high for them in any quarter in the postseason. 29 a game in the third. Thunder out scored Denver 3726 in the third quarter to win game seven Sunday. But in general, the third quarter has not been kind to them. Was not in that Denver series at all as they were outscored in the third. Five of seven games. We’ll see what adjustments they’ve made at halftime and how they execute those to begin this third quarter. Minnesota has laid physical claim to game one. They’ve really brought the heat against the Thunder. It’s Dub, Homedren, Dork, Hardenstein, and Shay. Thunder shooted the basket to my right in this third quarter. Play underway. Edwards, Randall, Connley, Goar, and McDaniels for the Timberwolves. Hardenstein on the dribble weave. Straight away to Dub 30 ft away. Edwards on him. Hartinstein screens. Edwards behind it. Slashing left on Gobear. Steps away. Fires. 18 foot jumper. Straight away. Short. Rebound. Tip. Gord has it. Back to Duby on the arc. Jaylen slashing left on Connley. Spinning right in deep. Lobing. Hardenstein can’t control it. It’s popped free and Connie has it. That was really ugly in terms of execution. Edwards pulls up hops unguarded. Angle left three-pointer won’t drop in and out. Loose ball fought for and Dor fouls. Goar jostling for it. So Rudy Goar not a major factor in game one, but a play like that a miss shot not clearing it allows the Wolves an extended possession as Luke Gensor has his third foul. 36 seconds into the third. The third quarter looking nothing different than what we saw in the first half. Connley in the left corner, feeds a left wing to Randall. Zips the ball out front to Edwards. Gives it up right corner. McDaniels back up the sideline. Ball popped away by Herstein. Collapsing on Shay at midcourt is Edwards. And Edwards tries to help Shay up. Edwards clearly looking to intimidate SGA in the Thunder with some of his play in the first half. That’s his third personal. He’s got three. Randall, three for the Wolves. Hardenstein and Dort three a piece for the Thunder. Remains 4844. It’s where it stood at halftime. Little less than a minute into the third. Shay out front. Back of a Dort pick. Slicing left. Bounce keys to Hartenstein. Fumbles the ball. Gets it back and throws it away. McDaniels a loose ball. Nothing pretty for the Thunder offense right now. Randall to the trailing Edwards. Guarded by Hartinstein. Slashes left away from him down the lane. Kicks in the corner. McDaniels wide open. Strokes a three to short. Dork tips the rebound to Shay. Hartinstein’s down. Shay front court playing four on five right now. Edwards on him. Gildas Alexander waits to Hartinstein pick gets it. Stutter steps swooping to the foul line contained by Goar spins holds out front to dub open. Snaps off an angle right three-pointer in there to sing a thunder. Money ball that worked. Wasn’t pretty but it works. Disenter bottled up by the fourtime defensive player of the year but he found an outlet. That was Dub, who splashes his first three of game one and has nine points. Thunder within one 4847. Nothing coming easily. 1020 left in the third, but I guess it shouldn’t in the Western Finals. High post left go back to Connley playing the two-man game. Connley left wing strokes a three-pointer. That’s off. Homerren high for the rebound. Thunder seek the lead. They led only once at 1716 late in the first. Fell on the handle, slashing left on Edwards. Settles for a fade away angle left 16oot jumper that misses everything but the backboard. Not a good shot there. McDaniels clears and the Wolves are back in business. Up by one. Two minutes into the third. Edwards stands on the triple. Caught at by Dor. Ducks find a pick up by Goar. Bounce feeds to Goar down the lane. High stepping throws it away. Shay steps into the passing lane. Intercepts that effort does Alexander with his third steel. Crossing over on McDaniel slicing left. Pump face. Whips it in deep to Homer. Hooks over Randall and knocks down a left shoulder. Three-foot hook. Home second bucket. Gives the Thunder their second lead at 4948. 9:30 left. Third quarter. Shut the Timberwolves out. 2 and 1/2 minutes into this quarter. Crowd aroused down the lane. Collie puts a right-hand runner unguarded that goes from 10 ft out. His first base shot gives a lead back to the Wolves at 5049. Dub on the handle to the trailing Holman slashing down the lane to the rim. Lays it up. Undercut and fouled by McDaniels on route. Hopefully Chad’s okay. Slow to get up. Not up yet. Home decided a sliver of daylight and took it to the Cubs where McDaniels was late arriving picking up his third foul. So the Wolves have a trio of starters with three personals. Edwards, Randall, and now McDaniels. 5049 Minnesota. Timberwolves incur their second team foul of the frame as home in a very quiet offensive night. The Minneapolis native 02 free throwing has four points, averaging 15.7 on this playoff run with 9.7 rebounds. That’s 10th among all players in postseason. He nails the first foul shot to tie the game at 50. Homegrren the pride and joy of many haha academy in Minneapolis guiding that program to multiple state titles during his run there as a high schooler. Check for the lead. Arcs it sticks it 5150 Thunder on the teeter totter early in the third quarter of game one. Thunder have the home court advantage. They want to hold that with games one and two here. Game two Thursday. Connley widens out right crosses over beat Shay sets up McDaniels in the corner slicing left. pulls up, pops 13 foot jumper, drops a very poorly defended sequence there as the Wolves with pace got the open look, but Mc Daniels has seven. Shay on the handle straight away off the stutter step and Daniels all over him behind the back dribbles. Nothing materializes. Thunder down one. Shay grinding left now. Steps away, fires an offbalance onelegged 13t jumper. It goes and he’s hacked in the yak by McDaniels. Gildas Alexander played the role of Houdini. Somehow stabilizing his body in midair off of one leg, but Daniels now has four fouls. 842 left to play in the third quarter. Oklahoma City 53, Minnesota 52. And Shay grabbing the bottom of the shorts to gather some oxygen. It’s been that kind of night under duress throughout. Gilders Alexander making only his third shot of this game in 14 tries. He has 13 points and the Thunder have a one-point lead as Chance of MVP cascade down at Paycom Center. 5352 Oklahoma City, 842 left. Quarter number three. McDaniels out, but he is a gritty defender. Alexander Walker in to replace him as Shay splashes the foul shot. He gets the Thunder. Their largest lead of this game, believe it or not, at 5452. They’ve outscored the Wolves 104 to begin this third quarter. Elvis Alexander’s on Connley. Jay has six assists and 15 points. High post left Randall played by Dub back to the basket. Swooping out front door on him on a switch. Randle gives it up right wing to Conway. Six to shoot. Catalina Shay leans in. Shay reaches in popped the ball away. The foul to do it. That’s just not a smart play with the shot clock on the back of Connley who seems ageless now 37 years of age. So Connley creating offense not once but twice deep in the shot clock for Minnesota here as the Thunder have cut off all of his safety valves and Shay got clean ball there. That’s a horrible call but OKC is out of challenges. Conley has two points. They came earlier this third. Arts the first foul shot. It’s up rattling in. Mike Conley always an outstanding foul shooter has made now 11 of 12 free throws in this postseason run. He’s a career 80 and a half% free thrower. Isaiah Joe readying to re-enter. Thunder by one. 823 left third quarter. Joe steps in. Homegrren steps off. Z off the bench. Scored five for the Thunder in the opening half. Thunder closed the second 6-1. They’ve extended that a bit in this third quarter to grab the lead. Although it’s incredibly narrow as Connley looks to tie the game and does hitting both free throws. Chay deep in the back court pestered by his cousin Alexander Walker. They’re isolated on one another. Tilted Alexander kicks fought right to Joe. Isaiah behind a Hartinstein pick. Rubs to the baseline bounce feeds. Hart for a floating 12-footer in the paint. It goes. Iard’s got a dozen without hesitation. Loftton at home over go. Six of eight shooting. Thunder by two. 5654. Finding a little bit of flow offensively. Four minutes into the third. Edwards gets a screen from Alexander Walker. Dort fights over. Ball swung wide right to Randle. Now straight away to Edwards. 10 to shoot. Dancing on the dribble. Crossing over. Ducking right. elevates and fires a three straightaway that he hits. Not much daylight there, but Edwards knocks down his third three back of a Go pick and has 16 points in game one. Wolves back up one. Joe rightwing one and a three. Edwards wouldn’t give it to him. Ball swung now to Shay between the rings rubbing off a Herstein pick for a three-pointer straight away from the lead. Back rim. Edwards has the miss. Thunder four of 10 from three. The Wolves are 11 of 32. Edwards weaving his way through defenders. Slashes right on dove into the paint. Whips it left corner to Connley. Catches it shoot. Rainbow 3 is up and good. So Mike Connley, seven points in the quarter. Minnesota’s made 12 threes in the game to four for the Thunder and is back on top 6056 answering the Thunder call to begin this third quarter. 722 left in the third. OKC’s early advantage in the frame is gone. The Wolves led by four at halftime. They lead by four now. This is Thunder Basketball. Thunder fans, the Thunder are playing excellent basketball, and Midfirst Bank has a great way for you to show our Allstars your support. Score $200 and a Thunder or Rumble debit card when you open a new Midfirst checking account. Use your $200 to buy fan gear or MVP worthy apparel. 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Whereas in the first half it was Randall scoring to the tune of 20. In the third quarter it’s been Mike Connley scoring seven. Wolves have made four of seven. Uh, you know, we’re going to face the best of the best. So, it’s uh it’s going to be about our mental toughness, our resilience, our attention to details, you know, and our willingness to keep doing the little things over and over and over regardless of whichever adversity comes our way. You know, Rudy Gobear’s second straight year in the Western Conference Finals. They never got there with the Utah Jazz. Mike Connley got to one with Memphis, but they got swept by San Antonio. And yet at this stage in his career, I go back to that soundbite from Julius Randall, how you have to you have to embrace it and and and cherish it when you get there because you don’t get there very often. Certainly it’s certainly a true statement. Then I I love the perspective the sound bite that Julius gave you in your interview with him was fantastic. It’s what happens when you you know become a veteran player. You know that these times are precious and you got to really you know cherish them when they come. You know Julius recognized that. I’ve talked to him before every game one and we’ve now had this this thing now three series in a row. So, we are keeping to the tradition. Jaylen Williams out of the timeout, works on McKel into the paint, shoves off, fades on the 14-footer and hits it. Not enough to call an offensive foul, but less than marginal apparently. 60 to 58. Jaylen Williams has been relatively quiet in this game tonight. 11 points on four of 12 shooting. Gilas Alexander 14 points on three of 15 shooting. Here’s Mike with the Wolves up by two. A touch for Rudy. Right back to Connley. Squirts his way between two defenders. Out to Julius. Left angle. Five to shoot. Going to work on Dort at the elbow. Gets one foot in the paint. Now swings into the corner. Mike’s got to fire at the buzzer. In and out. No. Rudy with a tip. Follow. That wouldn’t drop. Rebound tapped out. Julius has it. Back to Mike. He’ll fire again from the corner and miss it. Jaylen Williams the rebound for OKC. Here’s SGA up the center of the floor. Angles left off an illegal Dor screen and Lou Dort commits his fourth foul of the game. He’s got four. Hartinstein has three. Only two Thunder players in difficulty. And Q K Wallace who has the number one defensive rating in the postseason. When he’s on the floor, the Thunder have a 92 defensive rating. Would you be surprised if I told you that Minnesota only has one more personal foul than the OKC Thunder? It’s 15. It’s 15 to 14 number. That’s amazing. It does not feel like it. And really the turnovers, as plentiful as they’ve been for the Wolves, the Thunder have 11. That’s right. So, both those categories not as bad as it feels like. Here’s Rudy on a drive. He draws plenty of contact. Who will this go against? If it’s Hartstein, that’s his fourth. Could be against Jay Dub as well. And they will give it to Williams. And it’ll be Rudy’s first trip to the free throw line here tonight. Timberwolves basketball in game one brought to you in part by Travel South Dakota. It’s time to put routine at the end of the bench because you deserve to disconnect from the ordinary and connect to the ones who matter most. Discover endless reasons to pack your bags at travel southakota.com. You know, it’s funny they changed the phone call cuz it Well, they gave it to Harden. They gave it to Hardenstein. first free throw rolls off to the left and Rudy will get one more. The the striking thing about the points off turnovers, it’s it’s it’s 20 to4 in in OKC’s favor. They’ve scored 20 points off of 13 turnovers. Minnesota only has four points off of 11 turnovers. That is a that is a terrible ratio. And that’s what Pablo talked about at halftime, too, right? Was converting in transition. Minnesota would get a steal, but they wouldn’t score it. Thunder off the second free throw going to that Miami set where they push two players all the way forward near the corners. Rudy misses both free throws. It’s still a two-point Wolves lead. Jaylen Williams crosscourt. Kenri Williams in for Hartenstein who’s out with the four fouls. Isaiah Joe into the paint. Stops against it. Now kicks it back out to midcourt. 10 to shoot. Jaylen Williams with it with SGA out there with him. Williams on the move in the lane. Floats it up and hits it over Rudy who got up to block the shot and I think then thought twice about it. It would have been a goalend so he let it fall and it dropped in for two. We’re tied. Dante into the game. Pops on a left side three and misses it off the iron. Kenri Williams the rebound. Here comes SGA on the move. Five and a half to go. Third quarter. SGA works against Nquille his cousin in the paint. Rises jumper good from the free throw line. Timeout Chris Finch here. I I’m not sure he liked that last possession as Dante. 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Game one unfolding tonight. We’re into the second half as we speak. Tomorrow night, it’ll be game one of the Eastern Conference Finals will be at Madison Square Garden in New York City as the Knicks will play host to the Pacers. These same two teams met up in the second round of last year’s playoffs. Indie ultimately advancing in seven despite trailing 3-2 in the series. season. It’s a Pacers team that once again this year has leaned on their depth. Six different players averaging 10 or more in this postseason. Tyrese Hallebertton averaging 17 points, nearly 10 assists, and five rebounds. And he says they’ll continue to lean on that depth in this conference finals. Yeah, I mean, we’re going to keep being who we are, you know, keep leaning into our depth. I think the biggest part here is like obviously we we feel like we have the best bench in the NBA, you know. So when it’s second group or second group, we’re very confident in what our group can do. You know, if they’re keeping their guys on the floor, keep playing the way we do. And then when our, you know, our first group gets back in there, keep it going. So yeah, I think it’s definitely a contrast of styles and they they play a slower, more methodical way a lot through JB. We move the ball more, you know, play a lot more guys. So, it’s definitely a different, you know, different styles here, but uh I think that’s what makes our game beautiful and a contrast in styles in the the sense that uh Knicks head coach Tom Fibido will sometimes stick to a six or sevenman rotation. So, again, game one of the Eastern Conference Finals tomorrow night at MSG just after 7:00. Let’s get you back to Paycom Center, Alan Horton and Jim Peterson. All right, Cal, thank you very much. Thunder on a 6-0 run here. They’ve made six of their last seven shots overall. They lead by two 6260. How about a fun fact, Jim Peterson? This Western Conference Finals matchup between the Wolves and Thunder, it’s the first time in 29 years that no team from California or Texas is involved in the West Finals. We keep track of a lot of things. I am not keeping track of where teams are from and how often it matches up, but it’s absolutely true because of the run for like the San Antonio Spurs, the Lakers, Golden State, they’ve been eating it all up. It’s always California and Texas. Yeah, man. Chuck one up for middle America, baby. That’s right. I mean, they do equate to seven of the 15 teams in the West are either from California or Texas. Well, the Wolves and Thunder getting the Western Conference Finals. The Wolves getting there for the third time in franchise history. Thunder first time since 2016. Out of the timeout, Thunder with it. The crowd into it. Julius Faze on a mid post jumper. Missed it. Came up short. Isaiah Joe’s got the rebound. Here come the Thunder on the move up in the front court from left to right in the white association jerseys. They got orange and blue trim. Shay splits through defenders down the lane. Scooping the left hand. It rolls off. He gets his own offensive rebound and puts it back up and in. The key of this Timberroll team has been keeping this fan base out of the game. They are engaged now. 80 Thunder run. They lead by four. It is their largest lead of the game. Nas posting up left side poking in is Williams. Nas tries to spin off of it. Runs right in the shade. Gil just Alexander. Rips the ball away. Here’s Jaylen Williams into the paint to the corner. Case Wallace. Wallace on the attack. Going the wrong direction. Kicks out to Jaylen Williams who drives down the lane. Double. Clutches. Throws it up off the window for two more. And another timeout for Chris Mitch. 419 left to go in the third. 6660. [Music] 100 the OKC run. That comes after the Wolves were at 6 to take a four-point lead. And now the Thunder have answered back. They’ve now made eight of their last 10 shots from the field. And the one thing the Wolves have done a good job of, you mentioned, keeping this crowd at bay. Well, they’re up out of their seats now. Looked like Dante may have sprained his ankle on that one miss by SGA. Would have to go rebound the basketball. Couldn’t quite corral it. SGA gets it and lays it back in, then gets another layup after that. But it looks like they haven’t learned any lessons, Allan, because Nas Reed that time tried to back down Jay Dub. And you see when Jaylen Williams is is is post defending, every time Nas is putting it on the floor trying to get someplace, first of all, he doesn’t go anywhere because they’re so strong. And second of all, he’s poking away. And then when Nas is trying to force his will upon him and spinning the middle of the paint. That’s twice now he’s done that and gotten off balance when he’s spun and gone the floor and turns it over. So it’s almost like they want you to spin like I’m I’m reaching around trying to poke. Trying to poke. Trying to poke. Hey, go for the spin. You’re going to run right into a help defender. And that’s exactly what happened to Nazarea. Exactly. Twice twice now. It’s happened to him. It’s happened to Julius a couple times, too. So I mean they they they really haven’t learned much here. And Maz is trying to be strong, but like there’s strong and then there’s also smart. Out of the timeout, Wolves bring it up right to left. 100 OKC run. The crowd is into it. Ant has it up top. Case Wallace on him. High post to Julius Randall. Bangs with Kenri Williams. Holds. Still holding. Top of the key. Shot clock down to eight. Julius still has it. Now he takes a dribble. Drives into the paint to the corner. Nas. He’ll hoist on the three. It’s off Iron. No. Oh, the Wolves struggles from beyond the ark continue. Nas, Nquille, and Dante now combined for two of 17 from beyond the ark. SGA works on Dante left side and a grab on the back of the jersey by Dante. I can see that from here. Soon as you grab a fist full of jersey, forget about it. It’s the easiest call in the world for the officials. This is the knockout punch that Chris Finch is talking about when you talk to him pregame. He’s talking about being able to withstand a big punch when they throw it at you and it’s getting ready to happen. You can just feel it that this team is getting ready to drop an avalanche on you if you don’t play right. We saw it here on New Year’s Eve. Here’s SGA spinning baseline. He goes up for the shot. It’s rejected by Naz Reed. What a block. That’s six blocks for this Timberwolves defense. Can they convert at the other end? 330 left to go in the third. Ant shoves off. Line drive top of the key. Dumper. No. Jaylen Williams rips down the rebound. It’s grab and go up the center of the floor now. Angles to his right, dropping it for Isaiah Joe who fires on the three and missed it. Rebound to Keel Alexander Walker. Here’s Ann on the move. Crossing the timeline met at the three-point line by Jaylen Williams. Blows by him. Gets inside. Got the layup. The hit back iron and drop through. Two for Anthony Edwards. That gives him 18 for the game. 6662 Thunder. Lead is four. SGA got tripped up in the lane. He goes down and a whistle and a foul. Well, you couldn’t hear the whistle. [Music] Call made by Mark Lindseay. Chris Finch looking back at the second row. It does not look like the Wolves. Now they will they’ll call a timeout and they will challenge this call. There’s no foul. There’s no trip. He doesn’t he doesn’t hit anybody’s foot. And Mquille’s trying to get over the top of that screen by the way. Minnesota coaches challenge. And Minnesota’s going to win this challenge. I mean SG throw his job in the ruling government absolutely falls down. How about the PA announcer jumping in front of James Capers? I mean let’s let the crew chief handle those responsibilities on that. Yeah. I mean James could have said you know what we’re not doing that. Uh and this is what this is what infuriates teams fans that SGA gets that call because he gets a whistle when there was no contact there whatsoever. And anytime he falls down he sells it so well that that referees just give him the call. So Chris Finch has to burn a timeout and you trying to challenge this whole thing. So and you could argue, yeah, you’re going to win it, so you’ll get your challenge back, but and you’ll get your timeout back, but you now only have one challenge remaining, and you shouldn’t have to burn it when nothing happened. Yeah. Hey, by the way, our good friend Kevin Calabro is listening to us in Washington State up in the mountains. KC has got us on. Yes, he does. I had a great uh chance to work with Kevin for one year in Seattle back when they were the Sonics. I know the Thunder don’t recognize the Seattle Sonic days. He said, “Tell Horton he’s a badass.” And he’s correct about that. One of the all-time greats. Kevin is fantastic. Great. Michael Grady and I just had a conversation about Calabro because I I just, you know, he’s he’s probably he’s a top three broadcaster for me all time in my in my sports history. 63 years of watching sports on TV and collabs. Man, he and Lamar do a great job in Portland and they deserve to be one of the best broadcast crews in the NBA and they are. He’s got such a rich history with this former OKC Thunder team. I know a lot of people in the Pacific Northwest that always root against the Thunder. Uh, still don’t drink Starbucks coffee. I know people who do that, too. Upon review, there is no illegal contact by the defender. So therefore, there is not a defensive foul. We have a successful challenge. The imminent possession was Alexander. So Oklahoma City will get the ball side out with 16 on the shot clock. The timeout is given back to Minnesota. Well, then there shouldn’t have been a whistle. Should there have been, James? No. And he didn’t blow it. Mark Lindsay did in his 18th year. So the Shay does a great job of of holding on to the basketball as he fell down. He didn’t try to do anything with it. So it’s a smart thing. You know, if you’re going to do that, why turn the ball over? Don’t don’t throw it in your possession. So if you even if you lose, you still win because they keep the basketball here. Yeah. So the Thunder will trigger in the front court right in front of the Wolves bench. Shay gets it out to Kenri Williams. 13 on the shot clock. Williams hands it off. Here’s Kase Wallace against Dante right by him in the lane. Defense collapses out to Caruso. Now Homegrren moves it to Kenri Williams. Got to fire away with three on the shot clock and he hits a pull up 16-footer. Kenri Williams 6862 Thunder by six. He’s been a Timber’s killer in his career that’s for sure. He’s played some good games against Minnesota. And on the move off the Rudy screen, top of the keys got Wallace on his hip out of the corner to Keel. pump fake fly by moves to his left, fires the three and can’t hit. The Wolves can’t buy a three-point shot from one of their three bench players, Dante Nas and Nquille. They’re a combined two for 19. And back the other way, it’s Ken Rich Williams again connecting this time a three ball and it’s 7162. Here’s Rudy rightwing. Nazri puts it on the deck with a left-handed dribble. Goes all the way in on Chat. Forces up the shot. No. Rudy taps the rebound out of bounds. Wolves are facing adversity now here down nine with two to go in the third. This is eerily reminiscent of game one here on New Year’s Eve when the Wolves had a double- digit lead in the third to start it. Ended up down double digits at the end of the third. Shay with it. Stop and pop right to the lane. The 15-footer is good. There’s still 150 to go in the quarter. Chris has already burned a couple of timeouts here. He doesn’t want to use another one. It’s now an 11point Thunder lead. First double digit advantage for either side. It with a pull up left side three. Missed that off the back iron. Jeff Holdgrren up high for the rebound. Here comes Shay up into the front court. He’ll angle to the right side. Ren Henri Williams. An illegal screen. Tyler Ford makes the call. He was moving. He also got his arms up and clocked Nikquille right in the chin. So rare mistake for the Thunder. And the Wolves will get the ball back. [Music] Junior Randle’s been down for a while. Chris Finch was a little bit unhappy with shot selection. I don’t think he’s all that thrilled with what’s going on right now. That last shot by Ant wasn’t all that great a shot. Coming down and pulling right away. Not making OKC work at all. Here’s Nielle up the center of the floor off to Nas who rubs off the Rudy screen. Rightwing Dante catch and shoot three. Got one. Dante Devenenzo two out of eight from long range from distance. Wolves needed that. Back to single digits. 7365. Shay rejects the check screen down the left side of the lane. Banks it in for two and he draw a foul. It’ll go against Anthony Edwards and that’s going to be his fourth. Shay turning wrong right now making all the mid-range [Applause] shots. 10-point lead here for OKC again. allowing Shay Gildas Alexander Allen to reject the screen. And so if you’re Anthony Edwards trying to press up, you need to force him into screen to force him into coverage. It gets Rudy and engages him in the pick and roll situation. But if you let him reject, there’s no big on that side of the screen. So then it just frees him up to be open and then also that sets up the foul situation. So three-point play here by Sheay and Jaylen Clarkson of the game for Minnesota. All the foul trouble here is really hurting Minnesota and now with four 20 to five run over a six-minute span and a foul in the front court as Dante got knocked down. Kenri Williams picks up the foul. Edwards with four personal fouls. Jaden McDaniels with four. Julius with three. Thunder had a foul to give. So Timberwolves will have it sideline out of bounds opposite the Thunderb takes it. He’s got the white headband on. and he’s guarded by Kenri Williams. Here’s Nas with a touch right back to Nquille. 10 to shoot. Alexander Walker. Jaylen Clark back in the game. Got some minutes in the first quarter. Here’s Nielle. Drives baseline. Hangs. Kick out. Nas. He’ll hoist on the three. It’s offline and SGA’s got the rebound with 42 seconds left to go in the third. Up the center of the four now. It’s a 22 point. Circles off the homegrown and dished it back out. Kase Wallace with it. He gets by Dante in the lane. Stops. Lost the ball. He dives on the floor. gets it back and now he’s tied up. It’ll be a jump ball with nine on the shot clock. Let’s see who’s jumping it up. It will be Wallace and it’ll be Dante. I think Dante or Jaylen Clark. Dante was on the floor with his arms on the ball. I think he’s the one that won. You’re right. The battle. Yep. Timberwolves basketball tonight brought to you in part by Treasure Island Resort Casino. Booker State now tiasino.com. [Applause] Good couple of minutes for Kenri Williams as he comes off the floor to a big hand. Wallace and Devenenzo will leap it up. 29.6 left to go in the third. Thunder now lead 7665. Wolves win the tip as Rudy pulls it down in traffic. Now Dante up the center of the floor with a three plus second differential. Game clock shot clock. Dante will initiate the offense. He’s just inside of midcourt dribbling from the right hand to the left now between the legs off the Rudy screen to his left. drives him. Try to lob it out. Jaylen Clark’s got it. Clark on the attack. He draws a foul going into the paint. He’s got a knack of getting fouled, too, by the way. He does. He just plays really solidly. Clark 39 games in the regular season, 13 minutes a game, four points, a rebound. He had a stretch, you know, where he played about five or six straight weeks there where the Wolves had injuries. Fact, he played well against Oklahoma City, starting three of those games. I got to tell you too with with Terence Shannon Jr., if struggle like this, I think that you like going to a Terrence Shannon situationally would be a good thing for his mindset and for this team. It’s just it Terrence plays with such force that this is what this game needs. They need a guy that plays with force in a game that’s physical like this. Strength and force. And I think Jaylen and TJ both fit that category. Jaylen missed the first free throw. The second one is up and in. It’s 7666. Down by 10. Thunder have it. 5 seconds left. They hit ahead to the corner and Wallace right back to the trailer. It’s Williams. His three ball is an airball. It goes out of bounds with 1/10enth of a second left to go. You know, they called that play actually Minnesota smash. 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It’s it’s the reason he’s the number one scorer in the NBA overall, but he’s also been number one in first quarters and number one in third quarters. And he has just he’s just dominated third quarters in particular, Jim, against the Wolves in the regular season. He averaged 15 points on 71% shooting. Now, he didn’t shoot great in the third quarter here. uh although he’s five of eight, but he’s just he’s led the I I feel like third quarters are huge for the Thunder and we’ve seen this especially here them have big third quarters against Minnesota. Yeah. And you know he was really good down the stretch of the third quarter as well and now you’ve got guys like Caruso on the floor there defenders. Wallace is out here. Wiggins is an excellent defender. Check and JDub as well. Jaylen Williams. So the Thunder go 20-6 to close out the third quarter and that goes back to the 706 mark of the third quarter. The Wolves led by four. They had just finished a 6 run and then the Thunder got things going. A 20 to6 burst over the final seven minutes now. Now lead by 10. Here’s Dante left side off a feed from Randall. He’ll fire a three. It’s off the back iron. No. Thunder control the rebound. Jaylen Williams. He’s the center point of the Thunder offense here with SGA off the floor. Jet Homegrren slips the screen. Williams pulls up at the elbow. The jumper is long off the back iron and Nas has the rebound. Rules begin the fourth with on the bench. You got Mike Connley, Julius Randle, Dante Devenenzo, Jaden McDaniels, and Nas Reed. Randall one-on-one against Aaron Wiggins. Backs him down in the paint. Turns the double ensues out to McDaniels. Corner three, missed it long. Nas read it perfectly. He’s got it under the bucket. Pivots couple of times, gets his shot blocked. still saves it. Back out to Dante who buries his third three of the night. How about that? What a wild sequence that was. Certainly was. Naz Reed sticking with it. Instead of throwing it out on the offensive rebound for a dagger, he tried to score it, got it blocked, but somehow fired it out to Dante for the three. Got blocked and came right back to him and as he was falling out of bounds. Dante got hit. He’s down. Five on four advantage. Homer in a right corner three and he buries it back to a 10-point Thunder Lee with 1045 left to play in the [Applause] game. Here’s McDaniels inside on Homegrren the sevenfooter. Kick back out to Nas. Poked away from behind by Jaylen Williams as he drove baseline. Timberwolves will have 13 to shoot. I I mean they have to practice what they in terms of the hands that they play with the way that they are always poking at the basketball and pressuring at all times. It’s something that they have to practice because they all do it. There is an officials timeout here as Dante Devincenzo who said he got knocked down. There’s some blood coming from his nose. And so Aaron Seir, the head athletic trainer for the Timberwolves will attend to Dante. It’s a de facto timeout here with 1036 left to go in the fourth [Music] quarter. He got smacked back on the defensive possession. Wolves all time in postseason play are 2 and 36 when they’re down 10 or more points in a fourth quarter. One of those comeback wins came in game two, nope, game four of their first round matchup this year against the LA Lakers. Rebels were down by 10 with about 11 minutes to play. Outscored the Lakers 2915 the rest of the way. The other compromised win if you’re wondering came against Sacramento back in 04. That was game two also second round. So 2 and 36 went down 10 plus. It’s hard enough coming back from double division deficits with the Wolves have done a nice job of in the regular season. Yeah. But boy, you dial things up in the postseason. Those those comebacks are tough to find, especially here. especially here along the baseline. Jaden will trigger in. Dante does stay on the floor. The inbound comes to Randall. He bangs with Caruso now. Steps back, fires on the 14t fall away and hits. First two points of the second half for Julius Randle. He had 20 in the first half. Here’s Jaylen Williams off the Wallace screen to his left. Drives on Connley. Bumps, backs, lost the ball, got it back. Now up top, Caruso. Caruso is going to fire on a three and rattle it in. Well, the Thunder starting to knock down some triples. It hasn’t been a big three-point shooting night for them. Just seven of 15. Low volume, but high percentage, 47%. Wolves find themselves down by 11. 8271. Dante the drive, the reverse layup. Jet read it perfectly. He blocks the shot and then Dante fouls Homegrren trying to track down the loose ball. [Applause] 956 to play and the Wolves trailing 8271. You know, if you’re going to put the ball on the deck like that with Chad Homegrren guarding you, you better have a plan. And if you feel like he’s tracking you, you better keep your dribble alive and dribble out of that mess. Chad Homegrren with it up top. Tries to drive on Jaden. He’s cut off. Now Homegr got away with a travel inside, but he threw up an airball and Jaden McDaniels comes away with the rebound. Here’s Randall on the move against Caruso. Lost the ball. Homegrren comes away with that. Fourth turnover on Julius Randall. Jaden’s got three. Ants got two. Nas has two. Corner three on the way for Case Wallace. Off the heel. No. And the Wolves escape damage, but they still trail by 11. They’ve turned it over 16 times for 22 OKC points. Jaylen Williams is everywhere. There’s a reason why the Thunder lead the NBA in the regular season and postseason in deflections. The loose balls recovered. So active he poked it free out of bounds. Timberwolves have it. Dante off the Julius screen. Nothing develops. Dangerous pass crosscourt. Nas has it though. Finger rolled the rim. He got it. Jaylen Williams was hunting for that steal. And if he got it, he would have had a breakaway. Nine-point Thunder with nine to play. Aaron Wiggins will bring it up on Dante. Left of the top of the key is pass deflected, but Wallace has it. Back door. Homegrren slams it through for two. Wolves trying to put some pressure on. And when you put pressure on, you get beat back door like that. Here’s Nas Reed. Baseline drive. He’ll rise and he got it knocked away by Caruso who admits his guilt. Third foul on Caruso. Two shots coming up for Nas Reed. Down by 11 with 842 left to go in the fourth. Timberwolves basketball tonight from OKC. Brought to you in part by Eclipse. Want to arrive at a Timberwolves game like Jim Peterson does in his very own limo each and every night? Just contact Eclipse Transportation. And you can make reservations by going to eclipsecars.com and by US Bank. US Bank is proud to be the official bank of the [Applause] Timberwolves. Nas gets a shooters touch off the free throw front rim and it trickles in. You know, Minnesota has been one of the better points in the paint team here in the playoffs. They are second in the NBA amongst all playoff teams in points in the paint. They’ve averaged 51.6 six on the on the playoff season. That’s second in the lead. And tonight points in the paint, 44-4 in favor of Oklahoma City. It’s just unbelievable. Minus 30 in the paint. And then and then defensively, Minnesota’s been second holding opponents to only 39.6 in the playoffs as well. So just I mean it’s completely out of their character in this game. and they’ve not been effective getting to the rim and it’s something that OKC does. They take away the paint from you. Yeah, they do. They’re number one. They’re not top 10 in limiting shots at the rim and number one defending the rim. Homegrren inside, gets a feed from SGA. Pivots and slams. It’s an 11-point Thunder now with 820 left to play. Jaden off to Dante. He’ll turn fire on the three. He clangs off the front rim. No, Dante has taken 11 threes tonight. He has missed eight of them. Shay deep three straight away in and out. No. And Ants got the rebound with eight to play. Anthony Edwards 18 points, five of 12 shooting against Caruso as he crosses the timeline. Struggled in four games against the Thunder. Shooting under 40%. Gets it off to Dante. Gives it right back. He’ll pop on the three. It’s off the back iron. No. Homegrren up for the rebound. Couldn’t squeeze it. Randall saves it out to Dante Vincenzo. Dante to the right wing. Here’s Nas. Pump fakes the three and the high post. He’ll dump it inside. Randle goes up and fouled from behind. Good neck recognition there by Nas. He saw Julius was kind of in his area, so he kind of drifted out and allowed the passing lane to to Randall along the baseline. Well, just keep playing. And that’s what Chris Finch is telling these guys. All you got to do is keep playing. And heck of a possession right there to make something out of nothing. Great save by Julius that time to get it out to Dante who was able to make something out of nothing. And Julius finally it finally went in. It bounced around. Looked like it might have bounced out, but it just nestles inside the rim. [Music] The fact that the Wolves came here and had their largest fourth quarter comeback in franchise history in February. Does that seep into their brains at all that you know, hey, we had some success here. They collapsed down the stretch. We dominated. Just keep playing. tried trying to get stops. Jets had his way here a little bit. He’s gotten some easy dunks inside, but just keep playing. Minnesota small now. Julius the only big on the floor with Jaden McDaniels. Nas just checked out for Nquille. So Dante and Nquille, aunt, Jaden, and Julius as Jim mentioned. Here is SGA left of the lane. Bangs against his cousin. Looked like he got airborne. The shot. No, but a tip follow for Chad Holri. He kind of extended up onto his tippy toes, brought it down, then went back up. missed the shot, but Homegrren starting to find some rhythm. He’s up to 13 points. Here’s Randall wing left against Dort. Cut off. Lou Dort playing with four fouls. Randall went down, lost the ball as Dort pulled the chair on him. That’s five turnovers on Julius Randall. Left of the lane. SGA hunts for the foul. He got it. He flipped it up off the glass. It drops in for two. The foul gets charged to Jaden McDaniels. That’s his fifth. And that kind of typifies the two things the Wolves can’t afford to have happen. Turnovers at one end and fouling SGA at the other. 90-7. And SGA somehow has 25 points and he’s only shot eight of 24 tonight. Yeah. And they’ve been really good at cashing in on Minnesota’s mistakes. 16 turnovers. They got 24 points off of those 16 turnovers. Another three-point opportunity for Shay Gilis Alexander. Led the league in scoring, 33 points a game. 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Thunder coming off a sevengame series which finished up just two nights ago here at Paycom Center and Alex Caruso played a big role in the series win over the Nuggets. He was asked if the Thunder are going to have tired legs heading into this series. To be honest, we don’t have time to worry about if you’re tired or not. Like we’re eight games away from winning a championship, you know, like four games away from getting to the finals. All that’s kind of out the window. Like you need to just show up and do your job, you know. And on that point, 38% shooting in the first half for for OKC. They’re now up to 47% which tells you they’re shooting up over 50% here in the second half. They found a rhythm and maybe there were some tired legs to start, but they’re kind of doing what they do. They force turnovers. They make life difficult for you and they rely on SGA and Jaylen Williams and Chad Homegrren at the other end. Chad Horman’s Chad Homegrren has been doing it on both ends of the floor. when he gets into shot blocking mode, he just feeds off. And I don’t know how much you saw him play in high school and none at Gonzaga. But I mean, he’s just got this great instinct defensively. That’s been his calling card, but now he’s been adding scoring the basketball, shooting threes, getting inside play. He’s been great here in this half. My only memory of Chad Homegrren is Jeff Munichi walking him around Target Center during some Wolves games during his many haha days. Julius Randle cleans up inside for two with a left-handed layin. His dad was my college teammate at the University of Minnesota back in the day. Dad was a good player too from Prior Lake Minnesota. Dave Dave Homegrren big Dave 84 to 88. Golden Gopher Thunder have it. Shay’s got the ball in his hands. He’s running away from Randall. Spins at the elbow. Goes up with a right hand off glass. Julius did a nice job defending without fouling. That shot never hit the rim. And so when McDaniels and Chad Homegrren both get possession of the ball, there is no jump ball. It’s a shot clock violation. And that is the 13th turnover. Nope. 14th now on on OKC. But the points off of turnovers are startling. 25 to eight. And the points in the paint not getting any better. It’s 50 to 14. I mean, you’re approaching 14 is an astronomically low number. Here’s Mackle. Takes a run on homegrates to the other side of the cup and lays it in. 9181. 10 down 10 with six to play. SGA off the home rung screen drives by McDaniels all the way in the cup and lays it in off the glass for two. And that’s where Shay gets leverage on Jaden. He’s smaller. Jaden just can’t get low enough to stay with him. Mel on a drive. A kick out to Dante who fakes the pass. lines up the three and missed it. Jet Homegrren with the rebound. SGA is a plus 19 in the second half of play. Actually, he’s a plus 16, but a minus three in the first half. Goes around his back. Still got Jaden on him. One-on-one here. And he draws the foul. And Jaden just fouled out of the game with 521 left to play. Yeah. I mean, it’s it just makes you wonder, is Jaden the best matchup for Minnesota against STS? Second time in the postseason Jaden has fouled out. It’s the fourth time in 11 games, he’s picked up five or more [Music] fouls. You know, when the Wolves started this season, that first couple of months, it looked like it was going to be another long season. Almost on a nightly basis, Jaden was getting himself into foul difficulty. And then that really they shut the water off there somehow. He just started getting a good whistle, I think, and started asserting himself and really figuring out the nuances of the game to be to be able to defend the top players in this league without fouling at a high rate. I I also think that in some ways, you know, there was a part of the season when Chris Finch took away the responsibility of him having a guard every especially the point guard position. You know, those those little fast quick point guards, he had other people guarding them at that time, especially when Jaylen Clark and TJ were playing. let ant or let Jaden play off the ball a little bit more which kind of relieved him and and he played better that way. Nielle will try a left corner three in front of the Thunder bench and he’ll swish that one through. Nquille now two for nine on his threes. I mean Nas Dante and Nquille the numbers haven’t gotten much better. They’re a combined five for 26 from beyond the arc. Shay drives hard to the free throw line. Step back jumper. And see now he’s gotten his rhythm going and SGA is up to 29 points in this game. The 96 84 and ants the step out of bounds on the sideline. He was pressured by Jaylen Williams. It’s a turnover on the Timberwolves once again and that is their 17th of the game. Four and a half to play. The Wolves are down by a dozen. SGA now matched up against Anthony Edwards. Dante comes on a double. Bounce pass to Williams. Extra pass Dort. Corner three on the way is good. Time out. Chris Finch. 9984. The Wolves are down 15 with 424 to play here in game one. You’re listening to the Minnesota Timberwolves radio network. Postseason dunks, threes, buzzer beaters. There’s so much NBA happening. I got to keep up. Oh, take it easy there. There’s a better way to NBA all playoffs long. Really? With the NBA app, you get real time stats and scores for every playoff matchup. Hey you. Yeah, you. I’m talking to you. Thanks for hanging out with us this afternoon, this evening, what time it is, wherever you’re watching from, all over the world. Now that we have your attention, please help us continue to grow this amazing community. 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Let’s cheer for sick kids together. See you in the chat. Going to win because of, you know, what happened previously or the history. We have to go out there and earn it with our play. Starts with your preparation going into the game to understand how important that is. and that’s where we want the focus to lie. So, we have an understanding, we know what the Knicks mean to the city and so there’s, I think, a responsibility that goes along with that. And the Knicks boast the fifth best defensive rating so far in the playoffs. Obviously, Jaylen Brunson leading the way on the other end, averaging 29 points and eight dimes in his 12 playoff games. Game one from the Garden tomorrow night, just after 7:00. Let’s get back to Paycom Center, Alan Horton and Jim Peterson. All right, Cal, the numbers are not pretty here in game one for the Timberwolves as they trail 9984 with 424 left. We’ll see if Chris Finch decides to make one last push with his regulars. There’s there’s still too much time to throw in the towel. Yeah, it feels larger than a 15-point lead, but that’s the way these playoff games go. Every possession feels so big. every two possession, three possession lead feels insurmountable, but it’s it’s really 424 left. There’s still too much time left to throw in the towel, right? And you think about uh the game in Houston that Minnesota played earlier. I mean, they were down 13 with three three and a half minutes to go in the game and came back and won that game. So, you just never know what’s going to happen. And this group can make shots in bunches. Especially Anthony Edwards can go on a big time run himself. So you have to keep playing. This is what Wolves were down 16 at Houston with 442 left and finished the game on a 23-6 run. Yeah. No, Jaden. He’s fouled out. Thunder shooting 61% in the second half. Here’s Randall. Spins to the cup with a left hand. He got that one to drop. Thunder going really small here, aren’t they? I was going to say they they go with go cruso at the five down the stretch in games, but they got homegrown off the floor. How much is Hardenstein played here in the second half? Not much. Here’s SGA drifting left. They run two at him. Bounce pass to Wallace. Fakes the pass, drives in, floats it up on the alley hoop, sneaking in baseline as Jaylen Williams. And Jay Dub throws it home with authority. 10186. Third alleyoop of the night for the Thunder offense. Randall bully ball into the paint on Dort out to Nquille. Passed on the three. Nas has it straight away on the triple. That’s offline. Rebound tapped around a and a whistle stops play and a loose ball foul. It’ll go against Lou Dorton. That’ll be his fifth. You know, they they kind of run a double the last couple of times at Shay just to get the ball out of his hands, but it’s a very it’s a very kind of soft double. Wouldn’t you want to run more aggressively at him? I mean may I don’t know maybe try to force something doesn’t seem like under you putting him under much duress. Nas the drive and he throws it out to the wing and he split the difference between Dante and Julius at the angle and threw it out of bounds. You know one of the things that you can do on a nightly basis is pressure the basketball. It doesn’t take any skill to do that really. I mean, it takes energy to do it and a want to to do it, but these guys, that’s what makes them great is that they are hard to play against individually all 48 minutes. Jaylen Williams gives it off to SGA. Rejects the Caruso screen, drives on it, now stops, fades, got airborne, and at the last minute, kicks it back out to Caruso. Dribbles into the three and hits it. No three for Alex Caruso. He’s three for three from deep. He’s got nine points. No ball pressure at all. I mean, Brutus Randle had his hands down that time and again throws it away. Luke Dor with a steal. Thunder have it. They’re up by 18 points with under three minutes to play. Shay looked like he was going to burn some clock. Now he drives. Hands it off to Caruso. His shot rejected out of bounds by Dante Devincenzo. Still 12 to shoot. I mean, when Shay drives, boy, he is sort of crouching down. It’s like he’s going down, then he’ll step through, then he’ll use a euro step, then he’ll stop and keep going. He goes through like four different moves on his journey to the paint. He’s a cat. He is a cat. Jaylen Williams off the inbound, one dribble, pull up. Tough 15-footer over Nquille. That rims off and Ant’s got the 235 to play. And the Wolves down by 18. Edwards against Caruso up top. Gives it off to Naz Reed. Back to Ant. He’s pressured by Caruso. still with it against Caruso left side now to Nas on the right wing deep. Three on the way. That’s offline and the Thunder have the rebound. Edwards has 18 points in this game. He’s only had five in the second half and he’s now five of 13 shooting. So he’s two of six. Only gotten up six shots in the second half. Jaylen Williams crosses over, drives, and he gets fouled by Dante Devenenzo. Nas Reed helps him from tumbling to the floor, but Williams will go to the free throw line for two shots. And while he’s there, let’s pause 10 seconds for station identification all across the Minnesota Timberwolves radio network. Along with Jim Peterson, I’m Alan Horton. at the Paycom Center here in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for game one of the Western Conference Finals. Our studio host and executive producer is Cal Soderquist. Our engineer is Britt Lockhart. Our statistician super Dave Han remotely tonight. Studio coordinators Alex Liebold and Ben Haney. Glad you’re along with us. 100.3 FM KFA and the fan in the Twin Cities. That’s our flagship, the iheartradio app. Just go to iheartradio.com or download the app. It’s free. Search Timberwolves. Click on that play button. You can listen for free from anywhere, from anytime. Timberwolves mobile app, NBA app, SiriusXM, satellite radio, and all across the vast but never ever expanding Timberwolves radio network. Timeout has been called before the two free throws for Jaylen Williams. It’s 10486. Thunder lead it by 18. Timberwolves led by as many as nine, but that was way back in the first half of play, which feels like hours ago. Thunder have their largest lead has been 18, which is right now. They’ve reached that a couple of times, but the big swing in this game came in the third quarter when the Timberwolves went on a 6 run to go up by four with seven minutes to go in the third quarter and the Thunder closed 20-6 over that seven minutes. It’ll be interesting to see what the shooting numbers are for the Wolves over that seven minute stretch. I mean, six points in seven minutes is just not going to get it done. Chris Finch has emptied the bench here. Luca Garza, TJ Shannon, Josh Minot, Jaylen Clark, and Rob Dillingham on the floor. Kenri Williams, Aaron Wiggins, Isaiah Joe, Usman Jang will get an opportunity here and AJ Mitchell is the fifth on the floor. Although I mentioned six, one of them eventually I guess it’s Jaylen Williams who will come out after the two free [Applause] throws. And the Wolves will face a little bit of pressure here. Thunder not just going to back up. But now Jaylen Williams commits the foul and then he’ll come out of the game and man Jen comes in. Well, 19-point game for Jaylen Williams on seven of 18 shooting, but he got a big time energy impact in this game. He’s a plus 13. Shay with 31 on 10 of 27. So they did they can miss 17 times. You mentioned Jaylen. I got to interrupt you. He’s got five steals. Jaylen Williams. Talk about energy. Holy cow. TJ Shannon elbow jumper rattled around. Looked like it was going to pop out and dropped right back in. Minnesota bench, man. They couldn’t have played worse in this game. 10688. It was a rough night for Nas. Dante and Nquille. Nas a minus 19. Dante a minus 18. Nquille a minus 12. They combined to shoot seven of 36 and five of 28 from deep. Here’s Isaiah Joe. got Josh Min in the air, draws the foul, he’ll shoot two. What’s also surprising is the volume of shots that the bench guys took. And and when we say bench guys, we’re we’re not in just talking about those three guys on the stick. Those are the main guys. But but they took 36 shots. They took 28 threes. Ant only took eight. I mean, Julius six. Um things got out of whack offensively. Maybe the Thunder had something to do with that. maybe forcing those guys to shoot the basketball, but the Wolves have to have better offense. Well, the it’s one of the, you know, the things about this Thunder team, one of the earmarks of their team is they’re difficult to get in the paint against. They have great all these great perimeter defenders. They they pressure the basketball every single time. There’s a lot to be said for that. Yep. If if I’m coaching a team, it’s one of the things when I did coach, it’s like I always preach be hard to play against. Yeah. Don’t let anything be easy. even bringing the ball up the floor. If he can put some token pressure on him, even just a little bit of pressure, that makes a difference. Corner three on the way is up and in. That’s Dylan Jones who buries that one. It’s 111 to 88 with a minute to go here in game one. TJ Shannon with it right to left here. TJ crosses over the right hand. He rises to the free throw line. Jumper with that left hand is no good. It rolls off and Isaiah Joe’s got the rebound with 48 seconds left to play. Bulls have committed 19 turnovers tonight. 38 seconds left. Kenri Williams a right side three on the way. That’s good. Well, the numbers are going to be really impressive in the second half for the Thunder. 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Full halfquarter season membership available. timberwolves.com/memberships. Wolves fall 114- 88. Jim, the Thunder put up 70 points in the second half. I haven’t figured out how they how well they shot, but it was over 60%. What was the biggest key in the second half? I got to say, was the ball pressure that OKC put on Minnesota. The fact that the Wolves never got a chance to get in the painted area and they were able to turn Minnesota over and it was demoralizing really. I mean, you’re saying to yourself, why are you continuing to fire three-point shots? They shot 51 threes tonight in this ball game. And the points in the paint differential is just it’s just an unbelievable number. I It got a little better. I mean, it’s 54 to 20 at least. But I I just think their inability to even move the basketball from side to side or getting into the painted area to be able to score it at any high rate at all was very demoralizing. Yeah. At least it got out of the teens, right? as fast. This looks a little better, a 20 instead of a it was 12, 14, 16, 18. It really kind of moved along slowly there, but man, the Wolves just kept turning it over 19 times for 31 points. It’s the It’s the volume of turnovers and it’s the rate with which I mean, they almost scored two points per turnover. I mean, you’re just helpless against this team when you turn it over. Well, it was the way the game started too, Alan, because they could have really built a big lead in that first half if they didn’t turn it over and follow as much as they were doing. So, I mean, it’s it’s both things that they talked a ton about before this series started. So, yeah, Julius Random mentioned to you and in your interview with him, he said, “If we can just not turn it over, like that’s the main thing they talked about.” So, you know, this will be good though. I mean, like they’ll get it on video, they’ll watch the video. Chris Finch is a master at being able to make and solve problems. Yep. Uh at least the streak came to an end. They had three straight games of 21 turnovers in a row. They only had 19 tonight. Although I would argue these 19 felt like twice as many as those other three games maybe combined. I I just don’t. It was just the It started early and they never stopped, which is the problem early on. Usually that’s a trend that continues throughout the game. It’s a tough thing just to shut off um to shut off once you turn it over seven times in the opening quarter. Yeah. Well, the you know, I’d like to know what what was our high this year against OKC in terms of points off turnovers. Have to check look that one up. It was it was just uh it 31 points off of off of the turnovers. The efficiency of which they scored was pretty was pretty amazing. So, it was they made them pay and and that’s we we knew that we couldn’t make those mistakes in this game and they you know played with fire. Timberwolves all time in game number one’s dropped to 5 and4 and four under Chris Finch uh after they had been 1 and 10 heading into Chris Finch’s tenure uh as head coach. Head coach Chris Finch, let’s listen in on this postgame press conference. You know, didn’t get a bunch of quality looks and then uh it affected our defense honestly. you know, uh we got some fouls early which I thought made us a bit softer than we needed to be. Um and then uh yeah, it was just and when we did get good looks, you know, they they didn’t go down. So, you mentioned the the defense became a little softer. Was that was that the main issue in your eyes on that end of the floor in the second? Yeah, I think it was like I said, our our offense affected our defense. Um and that can’t you know, that can’t happen. And so, Chris, the amount of good looks it seemed like you had from three. I mean, how do you feel just about Yeah, I think uh there are a lot of good shots out there. I think uh you know, we got to clean things up a little bit. Um you know, sometimes the passes were late, sometimes we weren’t quite shot ready. Um sometimes we need to turn them into to other plays, you know, but I did think that we got a number of really good looks um at, you know, and we we really couldn’t connect when when the game was kind of turning uh against us. So, and Julius was great in the first half and then did they just really kind of load up on him in the second half? Uh, you know, I mean, I don’t I didn’t I mean, I didn’t see necessarily anything different. That’s that’s on me. I got to get him the ball. I got to get him more involved to to start that uh second half. So, coach, it seemed like, you know, coming in this game again, you guys have really put a lot of pressure on the rim in the first two series and then kind of in game one of this when you guys only had 20 points in the paint. What would you say uh just from your vantage point was the the biggest thing that kind of hindered from you guys being able to do that? Well, they got five guys in the paint at any given time. So, you know, Chris, the the bench, specifically Dante and Nas didn’t have a great series before. Is it just a matter of them being cold tonight or what do you see there? Yeah, a little bit of that. Um, like I said, uh, you know, we had some good looks. I thought we had some rushed looks, too. And then, you know, um, but we got to do a better job of, uh, you know, of repeating the the things that we know we can find out there, um, and get in a better rhythm and those shots will go in. So, Chris, and Jaden, um, he was pretty good when he when he did get the shots. Does he need to get a little bit more involved in what’s going on? Uh, yeah. I thought he turned down a bunch of looks at times in the second half. Um, I thought he turned down some looks in the second half. So, um, but yeah, you know, five shots is probably not enough for him. Chris Rudy gets, uh, the two fouls in the first minute of the game, uh, comes out. How how much of his performance tonight do you think was about him maybe getting out of rhythm with that versus what he could, uh, do more of to give you more production? Yeah, I mean, I don’t know about, you know, obviously two fouls, a minute and 38 seconds or whatever it was into the into the game. I thought the second one was a little, you know, unforgiving. You know, I thought it was um certainly um but yeah, I mean, but you know, we weathered that storm pretty well. Um you know, I mean, I just kind of went, you know, I just kind of wanted to go with a more small skilled lineup, you know, when we got down to see if I could change the complexion of the game as, you know, Rudy was a a minus two. He was actually one of our better plus minus guys. So, you know, it’s not nothing Rudy did or didn’t do tonight. It was just uh got some early foul trouble and then I tried to do something else. So, Finch, forgive me if I missed this in the beginning, but Aunt’s ankle, was that bothering him? Did you talk to him about I know he came back in and then was fouls or He said it was a bit sore at halftime, but he you know, he he said he would be fine. So, yeah. Yeah. No, I didn’t we didn’t talk about it yet. So, coach, could you sense some of the frustrations that some of your players had with some of the calls that Shay was was able to draw? Yeah, there was a lot of frustration out there, but we got to we know we talked about that before the series started. Um, and you know, we got we have to be able to uh kind of put that side and get on with the next play mentality. So, so
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