Thunder Strike Timberwolves + SGA MVP

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Thunder take the 2-0 lead on the Timberwolves by defeating them 118-103. Es Baraheni is joined by Jon Krawczynski of the Athletic to discuss the struggles of the Wolves and what they can to do turn it around. Then Es is joined by Andrew Schlecht to discuss the Thunder’s dominant win, Shai’s MVP and much more from OKC.

Host: Es Baraheni

With: Jon Krawczynski and Andrew Schlecht

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio Producer: Grayson Moody

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the Athletic NBA Daily.
0:11.2	Thunder strikes the Timberwolves.
0:13.3	We've got John Kaczynski of the Athletics to talk about it.
0:16.5	OKC going up to nothing.
0:18.5	Let's do it.
0:22.6	Good morning, John.
0:25.0	OKC picks up a 15 point win.
0:28.5	Good morning to you, sir.
0:31.0	Nice to see you.
0:31.7	Yeah, two wins away from the finals for OKC, down O2 for Minnesota.
0:36.2	And, you know, I thought they played a better game.
0:39.3	I thought the Timberl's played overall a more sharp game than they did in game one.
0:44.4	But it wasn't enough.
0:46.0	And they couldn't withstand the second half surge from OKC.
0:51.2	Particularly, I think it was a struggle some game from Julius Randall who just couldn't get
0:55.4	anything going offensively how hard is it for this team to be effective offensively for four
1:01.9	quarters when it comes to Randall not being that guy on a on a night to night basis yeah I mean
1:08.9	it's it's really difficult because, you know,
1:11.6	Julius has been so good for them all playoffs, really consistent.
1:15.4	And I think he's averaging like 24 points before tonight, before the game.
1:21.0	And then he has six points, five rebounds, two for 11 from the field.
1:26.8	He was shooting over 52% from the field coming into game two.
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