The Oklahoma City Thunder are an old-school juggernaut lording over a new, supposedly wide-open NBA
The Timberwolves will tell themselves they're still in this series, but they're not. Whoever comes out of the East will lose, too. The Thunder are too much.
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The Wolves are realizing this in real time. They can't score on the Thunder, and they can't stop them, either. ...It's like if prime Aaron Rodgers was the quarterback of the 2001 Ravens. Just throw in the towel.If you think about it, the Thunder have the makings of an old-school dynasty in a supposedly new NBA landscape, where teams are meant to be created relatively equal. They have the defense. The depth. The MVP. And they're all young enough to keep this thing going for quite a while.
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...you can see them, feel them, putting the pedal to the floor as the first glimpse of the finish line starts to comes into view.
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It's not going to happen. And it's not a knock on the Wolves. They're one of a whole bunch of really good teams across a wildly competitive NBA landscape. It's just that the Thunder are a great team, and the significant difference between a bunch of good teams and one great team is really starting to show up.
