Thunder vs Timberwolves | 2025 WCF | Full Game 2 MOVIE 🍿

Thunder vs Timberwolves | 2025 WCF | Full Game 2 MOVIE 🍿

Shay, for you it’s always been team first. Congratulations. You are the NBA Kia MVP. The Oklahoma City Thunder look to take a two games to none lead in their Western Conference Final Series tonight against Minnesota. But they realize how important this game two is. Wolves have never come back in a series when they’ve lost the first two games. They’re 0 and seven all time. Scott Foster will toss it up. Homegr and Rudy leap for the opening tip. Rudy wins it. Backtaps it to Mike Connley. And here we go. Connley fakes one dribble. Two-point shot will go. Tips it out. Edward gets another chance inside. Bankshaw is good. Arstein goes down low. Home. Beautiful little finger roll. The big men finding each other. Daniels picks up Shay in the back court. Game high 32 in game one. Hartstein screams for him as he blasts and kicks to Einhart in the paint for a floating 13 jump shot. It’s good. Well done by that tandem without hesitation. Williams had an excellent game one. Finds the elbow. Jump shots. Good. Finally inside. Poked away. Ball cars back out. McDaniels knocks down the three. Williams makes a good catch on a bad pass and knocks down another shot. He’s in his first two. Edwards against pulls back. Plays catch with Cora. Hard screen set. Edwards hits the jumper. Hartstein finding SGA. McDaniels right steps back baseline. He has been the mid-range varo. There’s Alexander with a rebound. A hit to Williams. Jaylen Williams. The drive. Oh, blocked by McDaniels. Hul gets it. And Lord able to finish. All five starters have scored for OKC. Connley launches a three. That’s good. No changes so far for head coach Chris Finch. Here’s Ant working on Dort runs to the free throw line to the corner. McDaniels lines up the three and hits it. His second triple from the same spot on the floor right in front of the Thunderbed. Dort lines up wide open three. Nails that one. Williams makes his move. Gets inside, finds some space, knocks down yet another. He’s three for four from the field. SGA on the drive. Back shot scared. His second field goal. Here’s Alexander falling away off the glass. Backs it home. Nine straight points to lead up to eight. Devenenzo nice move across the lane. Goes high off the glass. Devenenzo lines it up and knocks it down. Dante Devenzo a playoff hero last year for the Knicks as Edwards backing in against Wallace. Goes inside. A little double clutch. Joe go off the bounce. Finds Homegrren. Hungren inside. Beautiful move from Chad Hongren. Miranda gets inside. Kicks it back up top. Edward kicks out to Ant left side. He’ll drive in up and over SGA. Back shot is good. The athleticism there from Anthony Edwards. Wallace gets into the paint. Finds Williams falling away. Difficult shot gets it to go. The Thunder roster filled with big time defensive players. Nas Reed left hand. Nice soft bounce. Reed off the bounce again. Drives that and another time off the glass. Dante squirts between two defenders. Drops it for Randle. Back to Dante. Turns. fires on the three and hits. His second three ball of the half and Minnesota finds themselves in front. 3231. Williams feeling it and rattles in another. He’s got double figures. Homer connects on a three. 11 points early for Chad Homer. Alexander Walker. He knocks it down. Well, what a difference of game makes for the Minnesota bench. Randall tries on Caruso. Gets inside the floater up and good. What a turnaround here for Minnesota. They go for Randall. Gilus Alexander with the steals. One of the top 10 in the NBA in steals per game. Jaylen winning back out. Caruso sets, fires, connects. McDaniels goes right at Caruso and lays it up and in. Minnesota in game one did not have one fast break point as Caruso throws that up and in. Wallace on Edwards. Arstein looks to help. Dangerous pass, but Mcanders comes to get it. Connley fakes back to Edwards. Corner three, puts it in. Anthony Edwards in double figures. 11 points, six rebounds already. Russo left wide open once again. Floats it up and in. Caruso off the bench with seven points in 9 minutes. On the drive, Edwards had one. Anthony Edwards powers to the bucket and a chance for a three-point play. Elvis Alexander again with McDaniels falling away. Got it. McDaniels tries a three and gets it a go. That’s his third three-pointer. Final drive. SGA pulls up. Jump shot is in. 14 for the MVP. Helong the baseline. He curls off of Rudy screen. Catches up top on Dort now runs to the paint. Rises up over Hartenstein and finishes with the left hand. Shielded Hartstein off with the right. About a 5second difference shot clock in game clock. Gilders Alexander a three-pointer. Knocks it down for Daniel right there. Hartenstein screens to the top. Shay behind it. Wriggling right into the lane. Elevates and fades. 13 for the jumper on the way. Rips the cords. He’s got 21 now. Randle in a hurry. Drives layup. Shot won’t go. Go right there. Good ball movement here. McDaniel spins. Nearly poked away. Shoots and scores. 13 points for McDaniels. Floats it up. Caruso trying to guard Rand just too strong that time off the glass. Thunder shribs to four again. Dub fed pulls up, fires, angle that three-pointer. Nothing but net. Chaching at Thunder Moneyball. That time Dub without hesitation stepped into an open tray and nailed it. His first three-pointer tonight. Williams drives. Boy, excellent defense from Kylie. But Williams undeterred, still goes to the rim. Edwards sweeping hook shot, bangs it home. Gildas Alexander sneaks inside and flips it up and in. He’s got 23. Even Chenzo floats it into Rando. Stolen by Lindor. What a play by Luke Endg first team all defensive selection. Outstanding anticipation. Alexander Walker with the foul. Counted and won. His cousin fouled him and SGA with a chance for a three-point play. Alexander Walker off the bounce left-handed. Difficult shot. Go keeps it alive but right to do it. Caruso tough catch. Strong finish. Timeout Minnesota. The lead is up to 11. Gilbert Alexander pulls up, jumpers, 28 points. And now this is the largest lead of the night. Alexander Walker finds Go knocked away by SGA. Here comes Wallace. Alioop to Homegr. Ted Hogan gathers and thumps. Big two hand send down. Ted Hogan. Time out. Whoa. Wide open. Lou Gord knocks it down. Jason Wallace drives back for Homer with the stop. Largest lead of the night and a technical foul called on Homer. A toying technical after throwing it down. Wallace launches a three. It’s good. A thunder explosion once again here in the third quarter. It’s a 24-point lead. Edwards down the lane. Scoop layoff a beauty. That gives him 24. There’s a clean look at Alexander Walker right on Q. Knocks that one down. Alexander Walker beautiful scoop shot right. Hardenstein back to Dub slashing left. Now gets it inside to Isaiah Williams finds Hartstein. Stumbles with the ball but finishes strong. Jayen Williams have another one of those games. His fingerprints all over. 15 points, six boards, five assists. Jaylen Williams goes where he goar falling away. Shot is good. Soft touch. Couple of bounces on the rim before it goes through. McDaniels goes inside. Nice adjustment from Jaden McDaniels. He’s got 19. He goes Alexander. Elbow jumper. Got it. Alexander Walker off the bounce. Nice feed. And Goar with an easy flush. Kaylin Williams drives to the rim. Left-handed right at Rudy Goar. Anthony Edwards pulls up just inside the arc. Nails the jumper. 26 points for Edwards. Cousins again going at a double team. Jaylen Williams fakes a pass now drives. Goes inside and lays it up and in. Power move from Jaylen Williams. Eight on the 24. Edwards drives baseline left handed. Flips it up and in. Gorgeous move from Anthony Edwards. That’s ridiculous. Great transition defense and the steel. Williams to Hogan. Blocked by Reed. Williams puts it up and in on the follow. Multiple efforts from Jaylen Williams. Edwards. pulls up, jump shot, puts it in. Anthony Edwards makes it a 10-point game. Just under three to play. Jordan on the drive finds Hungren. Hungren off the glass. Right back to Jaylen Williams. Puts up a three. Bang. Raven Williams with a big three-pointer. He’s got 11 points here in the fourth. SGA inside and Justin lays it in. Unstoppable. 36 more points. McDaniels three-pointer is good. McDaniels comes right back with a three. Home room has it. Home room inside. Adjust lays it up and in. Market time of 10:16 Central Standard Time. This OKC team looks different. They look very different. Another second half explosion. And the Thunder are two wins away from the NBA Finals. The MVP is SGA. and Anthony Edwards, despite a 32-point effort, his team down 02 now as they head back to Minneapolis. Wonderful moment last night with your teammates. What did it feel like for you to to be out there at midcourt uh and receiving that award and then to go out and and play the way you did? Yeah, it felt really good. Uh I feel like uh my emotions are like so high that I was like a little bit like tired out there. Um especially the start. I was like a little too juiced up. But um yeah, special moment. Um I’m happy we won so I can like really enjoy the last couple days and soak it all up. That really helps. But yeah, shout out to the team. Played well again tonight. Shay over here in the corner, Malikica Andrews, ESPN. It It seems like all season long, this team’s spirit, no matter the run, never breaks. And yet three minutes before the game, you’re celebrating and then three minutes later, you’re completely locked into this opponent. Starting with you, how do you balance that fun with keeping this serious goal in mind? Yeah, we just prioritize what matters. Um, and like we’ve come to realize that you win games and all that other stuff comes after and and it’s you guys saw it last night with myself and uh Lou and Dub today getting recognition. When you win games and you do it together and you have fun out there, everything else, all the individual stuff you want, it comes with it. Um, but it starts with with taking care of business on the basketball court and we know that. Shay, um, congratulations. Um, I remember in a bubble just you and Chris Paul being joined at the hip. You kind of like taking everything as a sponge from that from your arrival here and joining forces with him in the bubble to to now. How would you describe your relationship? What has he meant to you? It’s kind of like a big boy, big brother, mentor, all and above. was just and in addition, what did it mean for you that he arrived tonight? Yeah, he he has been great. Um, like you said, not only like a big brother, mentor, but just like a friend. Um, he’s always there to lean on. He was the first guy in my life that I was like close with that is that like achieved the things that I wanted to achieve. Um, and I really lean on him for like advice and and and not only basketball advice, like business advice, taking care of your body advice, like handling a family, um, when they don’t live with you, like there’s so many things that you deal with as an NBA player, especially of his caliber, that that go under the radar. And, uh, his guidance with that has been great. And, and like I said, not only as all the mentorship and stuff, but just just being there as a friend, he’s he’s been special. attendance tonight. Oh yeah, that was amazing. Uh caught me off guard. I had to like double take. I was like, who was that scene with my wife? I got a little tight, but then I seen it was Chris. I thought, “All right, cool.” Shay, you talked about those emotions early just sort of almost wearing you down before the game even starts. Did you focus on anything particular to try to kind of get through that initial stretch of time? And then just overall with what you did individually tonight, what were you most pleased with? Yeah, early I just wanted to lean on my teammates. Like I I thought about like coming out and like forcing the first couple shots, but I was like, “No, that’s probably not the way to go.” I wanted to just let the game come to me. Like I said, lean on my teammates, play through them, play off of them. I think my first basket was like a back cut from heart. So like I just didn’t want to force the issue, let the game come to me. And then uh yeah, I’m I’m pleased with the way we we guarded tonight. We uh had them to 100 points, I think. And obviously they’re really good offense. So yeah, we did the job defensively. Andrew Schlech with the Athletic. Uh Jub had 11 in the fourth quarter. You know, what did you see from him offensively and defensively tonight? Yeah, stepping into his own, being confident, making big time plays. I think we had like a they were coming back into the lead and they had like a a fast break. He got a steal and then an and one that was like a huge play for the last couple minutes. He’s just coming into his own and I knew this would happen. He’s a great player. Works hard, does the right things and and when you do that things good things happen for you. Yeah. Well, it was about four and a half minutes to go in the first half. You had eight points and then you went on like a little bit of a run at the end. You had like an assist, a fadeaway over even Shenzo, a three, couple free throws. You had like 11 points in like the last four and a half minutes. Was that conscious where you saw something where or you felt like you were kind of you want to be more assertive or whatever help you guys get an eight-point lead? Yeah, not at all. I honestly just was out there playing basketball. I try to be aggressive, take take my spots, try to make the right play. That’s all that was. It wasn’t intentional at all. just try to close the half the right way. Um, closing quarters is so important, especially in close games and the later in the season, the closer the game. So, just want to make take advantage of those moments. Yeah, Shay, you’ve seen Lou uh put in the work year after year after year. He’s been underappreciated year after year after year. What does it mean to you to see him finally get um all defense first team? Yeah, so happy for him. Nothing’s made me happier this year in terms of our team. Like Lou’s Lou’s been what he’s been this year his whole career. And for him to like finally get the recognition that he deserves is is very special. And it’s more impressive that like he just stuck with it throughout not getting it and just doing what what’s better for the team. He like diminished his role a couple years ago to do what’s better for the team. Like he’s just such a team first guy. and puts that above all to see him finally get some individual recognition for his hard work is is very special. Shay, how how hard is it? I know you take one game at a time, but these games are coming fast and furious right now. How hard is it to not look at it and go, we’re six wins from an NBA title? Yeah, it’s it’s it’s pretty easy. like all season long we’ve like got into a habit and built like the muscle of just like focusing on the next game and and and worrying about what’s in front of us. And it’s no different in this situation. We’re aware of where we are in the season. Um but we be doing ourselves a disservice if we kind of veer from what God is here and and that’s what we prioritize. Shay, you once mentioned my whole life is consistent. When you think about the younger teenage Shay, how proud of you are of that younger Shay that got you to that point of hoisting hoisting up the trophy tonight? Yeah, I’m very proud. Uh I’m glad he never gave up. I’m glad he listened to the right people and I’m and I’m glad for those people giving me that advice that they did throughout the years. They know who they are and I’m very appreciative. Jay, you guys have really seized command of both of these games with in the third quarter. What what are you seeing come out of halftime that’s you know put you guys in position to really overwhelm them those quarters? Yeah, we haven’t been great. We were we were terrible coming out of half in the last series and that’s just been an emphasis of ours like we have to no matter what’s going on in the first half, we have to start this half the right way and uh we’ve done a pretty good job with the last two games that it’s going to be very important on the road in in their environment, their comfort zone. Uh we got to push it forward. Yeah, Shay, when when you look think about people asking you about Chris and 2020, the bubble year and all that, does that seem like a forever ago and all that you and this team’s been through? How do you how do you sort of from a perspective uh rationalize all those things? Yeah, a little bit of both. It feels like it was a long time ago, but it also doesn’t feel like it was five, six years ago. Um, it’s kind of in between. Uh, but yeah, it’s the journey. It’s been fun. It It went by faster than I thought, but also it’s like five, six years ago. Wow. So, yeah, I I I don’t know. It’s It’s a whirlwind. Um, when I’m done my career, I’ll look back and reminisce on everything. Uh, Shay, the other night you talked about your wife, Haley, and how much she’s meant sort of your journey and your path to this point. What does it mean to raise an MVP and score 38 in the conference finals in a pair of shoes and a colorway named after her? Yeah, it’s amazing. Um, I’m glad I played well in her color way for sure. She’d be mad at me if I if I played bad. But, um, yeah. Uh, she deserves it. She’s been my rock throughout this whole journey from when I was a kid till now. Um, one of those silent voices that doesn’t get the recognition. Um, and she deserves she deserves the world. Uh, I’ll do everything I can to give it to her. We can go one last one to Jenny. Shay, the the run you guys put on there in the third quarter feels like Minnesota sort of is not I don’t caving is probably the wrong word, but just sort of sensing the momentum that you guys have. Are you feeling that as they sort of react to what you guys are doing at all? Yeah, you can feel it. You you feel like what happens is like you feel us like string together stops. That’s that’s what really that’s what’s like encouraging. And I think that’s what’s made us really good. Like just our team really enjoys like playing defense and finds it very fun. And when we um when we score, stop, score, stop, like the stops is what gets us going. We can play faster. We play confident and we’re out there running and just hooping. Um but yeah, us enjoying getting stops is definitely the key to that. Go ahead. Another one where third quarter they seem to pull away. Just what do you feel is happening coming out of the the break that’s allowing them to kind of get control of things? Sense of urgency. I think whatever adjustments they’re looking at in that first half, like when everyone goes back, I’m sure every team watches film, they say, “This is what we’re doing well. this is what we need to touch up on. I think they have that sense of urgency to make those changes and they’re playing 12 minutes at a time. They’re playing all four quarters throughout this postseason and I would say throughout the season, we have been able to wear teams down to where we put them away at times. This is a team and you can see by their record where you’re not going to put them away and you kind of got to play four rounds at a time. If it’s a knockout, it’s going to be a TKO. Um, and so I think that’s the main difference. Are the the three-point shooting struggles for the team as a whole, is that more what they are doing defensively to make you guys uncomfortable? Is it just missing shots you normally make? What do you see there? These are open shots. They’re open shots. We got to make open shots and I have faith that we will. Whether that’s more repetition, I know we have workers on the team, so they’re going to work to making sure that they’re prepared. Last game I made miss shots. So for me it was a focus on really owning in on my principles, my base, all the stuff that I I tell myself, good risk and so forth. And so I think the main thing out of all of this and the big takeaway was that fourth quarter and we made shots. Yes. But I think because we played with pace though that’s the reason why nil and that you know in the first game you guys did a really good job of running them off the three-point line and you know I believe it led to a season low and three-point attempts for them. Um and the same thing kind of in this game a little bit more, but um guys have, you know, held them to shoot, you know, below 50% from the three-point line in this series. Uh but it seems like, you know, their two-pointers is where they’re really starting to get, you know, going towards the basket. How do you, you know, kind of balance that? Um kind of fun into the rim, but it seems like, you know, they’re not missing any mid-ranges. How how do you kind of balance that? you know, finishing up possessions defensively, making sure that once we run them off the line, staying in the drive, passing over to the next guy, low man rotation being there, we had some fouls that had led to free throws or and ones because we weren’t there early. the job like it’s not gonna well we won’t get stops if we’re playing defense 90%. Like if we’re not making that last rotation, if we don’t box out to get the rebound, like I mentioned earlier, because they’re so disciplined in the small details, like we have to match that. I think in the fourth quarter, we matched that. We flew around. The rotations were there. We forced some shot clock violations. They missed the mid-range shots that they were making in that first half. And I think that just boils down to matching that intensity and and bringing another level like like they do in the third quarter. This is really the first game all postseason that Julius has struggled. What did you make of his night and um you know what does it make you recognize like how consistent he has been uh prior to tonight? For sure. And I’m not bothered. I’m not going to bat an eye at it. I know Julius. I know he’s going to come in and work. I know that as a competitor, his blood’s boiling and he’s going to come back the next game ready to go. We’re going to be at home. We’re going to have the comfort of sleeping in our own beds and having an opportunity to play in front of our home crowd, have them behind us, and just another chance to compete. I’m not worried about Julius. I know that he’s a great player, and I know right now he’s telling himself he’s going to be ready for the next game. Nil, you say you were talking about playing with pace. One of the ways you were doing that is taking the ball and just going right to the cup as much as you could. and other players were kind of doing that too. Is that one of the things either getting post ups early down in the paint or either, you know, just kind of avoiding that swing swing while you’re surveying the defense in the first five or six seconds of the half court defense? I mean, offense, is that what you need to do is put the pace into getting to the paint and then kicking to the corners? I think so. I think the main theme kind of just leans back to like matching that intensity. They’re a very aggressive team on both ends of the floor. They play very hard and so we can’t rely on just our talent to get us to what we need to in this series. We got to put pace into the game in fourth quarter. I think that’s when we felt more life and you can kind of even hear it in the building. There’s parts in that second quarter as well when we made that run. Putting pace into the game for us and being aggressive with the talent that we have, it helps us now. It opens up so much for an it opens up so much for Julius N Dante. Um Mike was making shots behind screens. Rudy puts pressure on the rim as a roller draws guys in. But just playing with pace and bringing life and energy. It’s hard to do anything slow. It’s It’s easier to guard. You got to get them moving. Get them flying around.

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