Thunder Down Timberwolves in Game 5, Advance to NBA Finals

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00:00a Thursday morning after a Wednesday night full of celebrations in Oklahoma City for the Thunder

00:06advancing to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2012 with a 30-point win in game number

00:13five making very quick work of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals

00:18completing the Gentleman's Sweep last night DRS in OKC and frankly as an eight and a half point

00:23home favorite we had the conversation yesterday just how comfortable would this win be for

00:28Oklahoma City booked as such a hefty home favorite would the Thunder even make this game look

00:34competitive with the Timberwolves be able to stay within striking distance and from the very very

00:40start the answer was no it was all OKC Minnesota scored nine points that's it just nine points

00:47in the first quarter Minnesota trailed by 33 at the halftime break they had very little fight DRS

00:54with their season on the brink and because of it Oklahoma City celebrates a Western Conference

00:59crown and a berth in the NBA Finals with a 124-94 win the one bet that I'm upset that I actually

01:05didn't make yesterday we talked about Ben the team total under 106 and a half for the Minnesota

01:09Timberwolves because I thought you'd still have a good defensive effort for OKC maybe Minnesota could

01:13win and still cover it that number but I wasn't sure we were going to get into a de facto shootout

01:17which technically we didn't one team had 124 one team doesn't hit the century mark but also the

01:21talking points yesterday you have a superstar player it's Anthony Edwards the talk of him being

01:26the face of the NBA these are the moments you need to step up and say I will not allow us to lose this

01:30game we're at least going to force a game number six in our own building please show up 19 points

01:34and a minus 29 here and a plus minus also talking about those bench players and the support players

01:40which usually play so much better on their home court maybe have to step it up on the road you take a

01:45look at yesterday Nas Reed was OK 24 minutes 5 of 6 from the floor 11 points Dante DiVincenzo 6 points

01:51Nikkel Alexander Walker who was really showing up in this series yeah he showed up with a zero last

01:57night you're not going to win many basketball games with your superstar and your bench not helping

02:01you out against a higher seeded team and it was all laid out yesterday the questions weren't like

02:05who was going to win the game I don't think anybody's like oh you know Minnesota's going to win this game

02:08outright it was can they stay within double digits if that first quarter was any indicator it was a wrap

02:13right off the bat and why did Minnesota even get on the plane ride to go back to OKC it was a clean sweep

02:19right off the bat last night