The Golden State Warriors will try and avoid falling into a very deep
hole in their best-of-seven series against the red-hot Oklahoma City
Thunder when the two clash this Tuesday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena
in Game 4. Tip-off on TNT is set for 9 p.m. (ET) and
BetAnySports has listed the Warriors as slight 1.5-point road favorites with the total set at 222.
Golden State has yet to lose back-to-back games this season, but it has
already lost two of the first three games in this series. First, the
Warriors were stunned at home 108-102 as 7.5-point favorites in Game 1
and most recently they were hammered on the road 133-105 as 2.5-point
road favorites in Sunday’s Game 3. In between, they beat the Thunder
118-91 as nine-point favorites at home. The total stayed UNDER in the
first two games of this series before going OVER BetAnySports’ closing
219-point line on Sunday.
Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson combined for 42 points on Sunday, but
they only managed to connect on five of their 19 shots from three-point
range. The Warriors shot 41.3 percent from the field as opposed to a
47.3 shooting percentage in the playoffs this year. This was just the
third time in 13 postseason games that they scored 105 points or less.
The Thunder have to guard against another letdown following a big win.
They are a profitable 5-1 both straight-up and against the spread in
their last six games, but the lone loss was that 27-point beating in
Game 2 of this series. Oklahoma City is 5-2 ATS at home during the
postseason and the total has gone OVER in four of the seven games.
There was little doubt that OKC’s top two players brought their A-game
to Sunday’s showdown. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook combined for 63
points while going 20-for-34 from the field. Both have been playing at a
very high level since the playoffs began with Durant averaging a
team-high 27.8 points per game closely followed by Westbrook’s
25.3-point scoring average. The Thunder are averaging 106.9 PPG and
shooting 46.3 percent from the field through 13 postseason games.
Despite just how good Oklahoma City has looked in this series, I will lay the point and half with
BetAnySports and take the Warriors to even things up in Game 4. There is a reason why they won 73 games in the regular season.
