Nuggets vs. Thunder live updates: 2025 NBA Playoffs Game 5 start time, picks and predictions

The nuggets know how to maintain us, that much is safe. Your seven-game stunner with the La Clipperers gave us a lot to marvel at, and you have sparked the drama against the most profitable team in the league. Three of these first four games were Heart-Racer, in which Oklahoma City claimed the only blowout (Mega Blowout, if you like; a score of 149-106 achieved this).

No matter where this series is going, the public should appreciate what Denver does. A season that once looked lost by turbulence from Executive Suite and a small beef found redemption in Inglewood. The team now shows determination against clear No. 1 of the West, limits Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in the route and wins the clutch minutes with unshakable cool (Russell Westbrook is a solemn Yeller, but these people are overall a cold bundle).

Both MVP candidates showed their usual brilliance, but nobody looks completely. Gilgeous-Alexander was 0: 5 behind the arch in the game 4 on Sunday and is under 22 percent for the series. He still makes his thing a decent relationship between assist touro, constant free throw and good position defense and was significantly better than Nikola Jokić. The three -time MVP ended in the last three games under 40 percent. He had annoyed seven sales in Denvers game 1 and eight more in the game 3. The thunder defense is a very complex storm in a teacup in the arena size.

OKC is in a good place when you consider your fighting side line -up. Chet Holmgren has the third best shooting share of the starting line -up at 39.6, which is not good. Jalen Williams, the same 23-year-old all-star we got to know and appreciate this season, is only 37 percent. Lu there has dropped under 29.

These teams squeeze and cover every centimeter hardwood, which is lazy to infiltrate the critics and decrypt the modern defense. Jokić, a player of almost indispensable efficiency, seems to be particularly disoriented by the length and coverage of OKC. The nuggets also clamped out when they are brave enough to visit the above shooting columns from there, Holmgren and Williams. It is not a big route, but this swing game is claimed by the better complementary crime.