They take bold foundry Founder NBA Final Charles Barkley

The Minnesota Timbervolves reserved a return to the Western Conference Finals On Wednesday after closing Stephen Curri, Golden Warriors for Matches in the game 5 second round. This is your second consecutive journey to western finals, where they will face one Oklahoma City Thunder or Denver Nuggets. After the Minnesota series win, Charles Barkley They shared a bold opinion within the NBA in connection with the chance of Oklahom City in the playoffs.

“Nobody’s not beaten by Grom Oklahoma City this year,” said veteran Within the NBA analyst. “They will go to the championship and they will beat him. He will beat Minnesota and win who comes out of the East. They started to believe it … I think Oklahoma is City in the NBA.”

The Thunder currently holds 3-2 lead in series, with a match 6 for Thursday in Denver. At this point, Oklahoma City looks like a strong candidate to take the title. First, the regular season in defensive rating and third offensive efficiency, and their combination of depth and unrelisted energy, did not overlap from any of the remaining playoffs.

However, the thunder remains young and largely unverplary in postsesons and with a high level of parity throughout league, it is difficult to make a confident prediction about who will catch the NBA title at the end of this year.

Thunder which shows poise in post-season

Thunder can be young, but they showed an impressive composition in current pressures. In the game 4, they were punished by a deficit of eight points in the final quarter. In the game 6, they arrived next to nine years before Lu Dort seted the turnaround, striking three huge 3-pointers in two minutes stretching that moved the momentum. Their game 5 victories was another sign of growth 112-105 return after it was left behind 12 and entering the fourth quarter down eight.

Young lightning continue to grow with every game while according to what the first Western conference finals since 2016. Years. Meanwhile, Nuggets face real issues about their depth, because they are preparing for Must-Vin Showdown at Balth Arena.

All records start taking tolls on Denver starters, which were about 951 minutes in the series-138 more than the first unit of Oklahom City. Outside Russell Vestbrook, Peiton Watson and an occasional spark of Julian Strač, Bench Nuggets offered little support.

In the fourth quarter on Tuesday, Nikola Jokic was lonely bright spotHitting 4 out of 6 shots for Denver, while the rest of the team left only 1-for-15 off the field, including 0-for 10 of deep. Jokic poured into 44 points on effective shooting, but his support ball came short.

On the other hand, Thunder had six players in two-digit digits, which led MVP Finalist Shai Gilgeous-Alexanderended with 31 points and seven asisters.c