NBA Season 2024-25

[Who]

Keith Smith: Cade Cunningham will see his rookie scale extension jump from 25% of to 30% of the cap by virtue of making the All-NBA Third Team: 25-26: $46.4M 26-27: $50.1M 27-28: $53.8M 28-29: $57.5M 29-30: $61.2M Total: five years, $269.1M

Jaren Jackson did not make the 2nd or 3rd Teams. So Memphis avoided that one.

[Phantom255x]

(wrong thread)

[Goldstar88]

Good start for Minny.

[Phantom255x]

Holy, Wolves off to an amazing start. Up 22

[Who]

Wow, 61-32 shortly before halftime.

Minny doubling up on OKC.

[scaryjerry]

Good for Minnesota, hopefully they can take 2 at home and make it interesting

[Who]

I liked seeing Terrence Shannon get a few minutes to start Q2. He is a scorer. Gives Minny another bucket getter. They needed that offensive boost in Gms 1 + 2.

I thought they might play Rob Dillingham today to get more dribble penetration and shot creation. I didn't think of Shannon.

[Who]

No Kenrich Williams.

Jaylin Williams got the nod instead. I don't know why. Kenrich Williams had done a good job for them the last 2 games. It appeared that they preferred his defense against Randle & Naz vs Jaylin Will's defense on Randle & Naz. Kenrich smaller more mobile defender away from the basket than Jaylin. Jaylin stronger more physical interior defender.

[angryguy77]

Shocker. Sga 2 fta and okc gets crushed.

[Goldstar88]

What a beat down! Love it. Hopefully Minny can keep the momentum going into game 2.

[bopna]

What a beat down! Love it. Hopefully Minny can keep the momentum going into game 2.

I was not able to see the game, how did the fraud MVP do?...I mean did his fouls magnet savaunt work or did The Wolves did anything different?.

3 games in to the WCF and there is no excitement whatsoever with the games being blow outs...the ECF is a lot more watchable.

[Who]

Strange decision to play Ajay Mitchell in late Q2.

[Who]

Both teams started reasonably well. Even game after 5 minutes. Tie game or thereabouts. Then OKC had a few turnovers. A few easy breakaway dunks for Minny. OKC missed some makeable shots. MIN hit the shots they have been missing from outside in first two games. Suddenly in the space of about 2-3 minutes it was a 10 point game.

OKC brought some bench guys. They were missing their outside shots. Solid looks. Caruso in particular. Minnesota kept hitting their shots. Minny stretched the lead to 15 then 20. End of Q1. OKC ice cold. Minny hot.

OKC's bench struggled. Their guards Cason and Caruso weren't doing well. Jaylin Williams played instead of Kenrich Williams. He didn't have much of an impact. Neither I Joe or A Wiggins had much of an impact. They turned to Ajay Mitchell late in Q2. He kept missing his shots just like the others. So nobody from the supporting cast was contributing.

Chet and Hartenstein were playing well. SGA and J-Dub were turning the ball over. They had 7 turnovers in the first half (ball park figure). They were struggling to get their scoring go. So a lack of go-to scoring from the 2 main stars + terrible supporting cast contributions from the bench. Minny stretched a 20pt lead to a 30pt lead.

OKC just never got back in the game. It was like they collapsed in that Q1 and never found anything that worked well enough to build some rhythm / some confidence to make a run.

They just limped through the game like a lame dog.

Meanwhile, Minny kept hitting all the outside shots they had been missing in OKC. Red hot shooting vs ice cold shooting.

[Goldstar88]

What a beat down! Love it. Hopefully Minny can keep the momentum going into game 2.

I was not able to see the game, how did the fraud MVP do?...I mean did his fouls magnet savaunt work or did The Wolves did anything different?.

3 games in to the WCF and there is no excitement whatsoever with the games being blow outs...the ECF is a lot more watchable.

Wolves defense was good and they made shots. 57% from the field. 20-40 from 3pt. The FT merchant didn?t get to the FT line. 

I think the series will be better going forward. NY/Indy is over.

[Who]

Listening to a Tim Legler podcast. He said the Wolves players off the  bench (Naz, DiVincenzo, NAW) who shot something like 7-36 FGA in game 1 or 2 ... it was the worst shooting performance of any bench trio since the 1970s (30 FGA minimum).