Thunder roll to Western Conference Finals

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Oklahoma City Thunder beat Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets in game 7 to advance to the conference finals, and Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, Es Baraheni, and Andrew Schlecht are here to talk about it. They the Thunder’s disruptive defense, how they figured out Denver’s zone defense, and Aaron Gordon’s gutty performance. Then, the gang looks ahead to the conference finals round of the playoffs and make some predictions.

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0:00.0	He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then...
0:09.0	His game might be over, but yours isn't.
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0:41.9	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.
0:44.4	Coming up, we had a Super Bowl on Sunday.
0:48.6	Andrew Schleck's here to talk about Game 7 from every single angle. Who, game 7, the two best words in sports.
0:59.4	Zena Kada, S. Baraheni, Andrew Schlect, Dave DeFore, NBA Daily, in the house.
1:05.3	Andrew's still in the Paycom Center arena.
1:08.5	You can hear the balls in the background if you're just listening.
1:11.4	Andrew, what a performance from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
1:15.3	Wow.
1:17.1	Yeah.
1:18.0	Defensively, this was their best game that they played.
1:21.0	They held the Nuggets in 93 total points, 39% from the field, and they really limited
1:26.9	everything.
1:27.5	I mean, the Thunder knew heading into this game that Aaron Gordon was going to points, 39% from the field, and they really limited everything.
1:32.1	I mean, the Thunder knew heading into this game that Aaron Gordon was going to be limited.
1:35.4	And obviously, he's great for their defense.
1:41.4	But offensively, there wasn't a whole lot going outside of Nikol Yokic, and he didn't even have a great game.
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