OKC Thunder-Denver Nuggets Series tests NBA standards

In the NBA playoffs, there are ideas, similar to life that we capture as facts, to manage the perception of players, teams and try to predict a series.

The second round between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets tests a few old audiences who have been equipped with the basketball game since the days of the Peach basket.

Oklahoma City strolls as the deepest squad in the NBA, a group that she collected 68 victories in the regular season, good enough for the best record in the association. A squad that contains a Rolodex of the rotary scale players who can prevail at historical heights despite poor injury.

Although the OKC -Donner is the youngest team that remains in the NBA playoffs. This is only the second post -season run with this collective core. This is not a lot of combat scars that prevent your baby faces.

The Denver Nuggets recorded another 50 victory season, which led to his victorious head coach was fired in franchise history. But they did it on the back of a flat rotation that was flanked by high-end starters by the best player in the world. Denver can only play six players comfortably in his playoff rotation and are forced to play seven.

However, this was enough to survive the La Clipperers and to lead the number 5 in the Mile High City on Saturday to beat the Nuggets ticket in round 2.

Since these two teams are to come onto the market, two different NBA theories are tested, which the collective basketball world has taken as facts.

When the 82-game marathon ends, the NBA world is involved in Star Power and Storylines. The long-term feeling in the league was that if you only four other competent people, the best player in the world or your star-your star-to pull a team into a deep playoff run.

Experts often predict a series that is based on who has the top player and has divided hair between options No. 2 and 3 on the two sides. The depth as a luxury with 82 games, but do not worry of 16 wins, is the playoff time because the rotations usually shrink.

Denver is the model of this input in the series. Your start five can compete with anyone supported by Nikola Jokic, but you lack the depth to create the versatility in the line -up. You will go so far that Jokic and the company's horse's place can take them.

On the other hand, the Oklahoma City Thunder has its own option No. 1, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who does not retire far behind Jokic on the best players in the world. To add his star, the versatility of the thunder enables you to play individual and small ball attachments. You have a bundle of attack fighters, capable shooters and two young people in Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren who can enter big nights.

This depth also enables Oklahoma City to look for a hot hand on a certain night, regardless of who is no longer that night. Where, if Denver has a night, there is no place where you can really turn around.

What is more important in this series? The time will show and the OKC -Donner will hope to limit an NBA standard in several ways.

When the youngest team left the playoffs, the thunder was only checked in the NBA playoffs against Dallas once a year ago. The Mavericks displaced the thunder in six games in which their young players did not meet their standard. After this series Okc went out and grabbed a few veterans in Isaiah Hartenstein and Alex Caruso.

Although the thunder is still based on Holmgren and Williams, who are 23 years old and 24 years old and have the task of being the second and third best offensive weapons of Oklahoma City. During the entire NBA story, this is an almost impossible performance among the players who are the second crack in the off-season.

The games are getting narrower, pressure increases and the quality of the fires worsens. This is a difficult environment for inexperienced role players that you can deliver, but one that has to be done for OKC to get forward.

In the meantime, the Denver Nuggets are more than fighting. The core group has already won a championship, the two reserves have had an NBA resume over a decade. This can create comfort for the outsiders in this series.

Do you need more combat scars in round 2 or are you ready to break through now? After all, they are always inexperienced until they come across the hump for the first time.

The obituary of this series has already been written, it is only about which version should be published. Either the Oklahoma City Thunder will win and a new era and a way of thinking stand in front of us. Or Denver does it and we support these old wise stories that we keep tight from the start.

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