The Dallas Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder are set to start their best of 7 series on Tuesday. This is a second round series, with the winner heading to the Western Conference Finals. The winner of the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves series will await them in that series.
The Dallas Mavericks are the fifth seed in the Western Conference. The Mavericks were the only team in the first round to pull an upset. The Mavericks needed six games to eliminate the fourth seeded Los Angeles Clippers. Dallas went 50-32 in the regular season. The Mavericks won 25 out of 41 games on the road, and went 2-1 in the postseason away from home.
For Oklahoma City, they have won nine straight games. The Thunder won their final five games of the regular season to finish as the top seed in the West. Oklahoma City went 57-25, and won the tiebreaker over Denver. The Thunder then swept the New Orleans Pelicans in four games. The Thunder are 35-8 at home this season.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are -3.5 at home in this game over the Dallas Mavericks. The total for this game is at 217.5.
Oklahoma City Thunder
The Oklahoma City Thunder played great basketball against New Orleans, including two wins by double digits. The Thunder held the Pelicans to less than 100 points in each of the four games. Offensively, the Thunder scored 120.1 points per game during the regular season.
Oklahoma City is one of the top shooting teams in the league. They are making nearly 50% of their shots, and 13.3 three point shots per game. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been the man for the Thunder. In the series against New Orleans, he scored 28, 33, 24 and 24 points. In the game 4 win, he also had 10 rebounds.
The Thunder also got 20+ points per game from Jalen Williams. Chet Holmgren is another guy for the Thunder that had a monster season. The rookie played every game, and scored 16.5 points per game, and ripped down 7.9 rebounds per game.
Dallas Mavericks
Kyrie Irving scored 30 and Luka Doncic added 28 in the Game 6 win for Dallas. Those two have been deadly thus far in the postseason. Irving is scoring 26 points per game, while Doncic is at just under 30 per game.
The Mavericks used those two guys all regular season. They combined for 59.5 per game. After that, Tim Hardaway was at 14.4 per game and PJ Washington added 11.7. Dallas, as a team scored 117.9 points per game, which is 7th in the league
Dallas was blown out by Oklahoma City last month. In that game, the Thunder scored 135 points and won the game by 49 points.
Mavericks Pull Upset
We love this game. We love this series. The Thunder are red hot. The Mavericks have an elite player on their team. This is going to be a great series. In the end, we predict this series goes to 7 games. We like Luka and his play right now.
We are going to take Dallas, and their experience on the road here. Take the Dallas Mavericks +140 over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday. Enjoy the game and best of luck!
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