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Undisputed (DR) / NBA (DR)
By Joël Pütz | Sports journalist
Irregular this season, Minnesota could however create surprise during the next playoffs. At least, this is the controversial opinion of Paul Pierce, who sees the band to Rudy Gobert overcoming one of the best teams of the current season.
It is said every season, but the West Conference is truly a merciless jungle. This year, it may be even more true than ever since everything is still to be done between third and eighth place, when there are only two or three games left by team. The Timberwolves of Rudy Gobert (8th) will not have the right to make mistakes tonight, when they challenge the sixths in the standings.
Authors of a bad start to the season, the men of Chris Finch may pay this delay in ignition to go through the play-in. However, be careful not to underestimate a team that went to the conference finals last year. Karl-Anthony Towns is no longer there certainly, but still … Paul Pierce has also split a huge prediction involving them as well as the Thunder on Fox Sports :
The Thunder beaten by the Wolves in Playoffs?
Thunder is more vulnerable than I thought. Before the match, we wondered if it was the best defense of the League? Absolutely, they have been all season. But in the first quarter, I saw the Lakers put 43 points for them. Against the best defense of the League in the first quarter? For me, it does not look like the best defense in the country.
The Lakers also put 15 three -point shots. At one point, they were 15/22 from afar! I wondered if it was really one of the best defenses in the league against three -point shots. It was the second game in three days of the Lakers. (…) I am convinced that the Lakers are not the favorites in the West, and I am also convinced that if the Thunder faces the Timberwolves at the first round, it will be released.
As a reminder, OKC has been running in the head to the west for months with the fourth offensive rating and the third defensive rating in the country. Except that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander & Co. have trouble in front of large displacements, A particular statistic not inspired confidence in many observers. On the other hand, the Thunder dominated so much in 2024-25… Suffice to say that the declaration of The Truth is not unanimous.
@BolWrld : If the Thunder plays Denver, the Timberwolves, the Clippers, the Warriors or the Grizzlies, they will get out in the first round
@ I'll seethemoney7 : They will win 4-1, serious what
@idcstfumaynee : Casually it's not that insane as that, but I still think that the Thunder wins in six games
If the Timberwolves must go through the Play-In box, they could be a painful opponent for the Rockets or the Thunder in the first round. On the condition of qualifying for the latter of course, a mission which must still be accomplished.
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