Nuggets take on the Rested Thunder In Anticipated Clash

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00:00That's it. That's the second game tonight. OKC off a week off.

00:03We'll take on Denver, who won that seventh game on Saturday night against the Clippers.

00:07Here is Mark Deneau, the head coach of the Thunder, getting ready for the Nuggets.

00:12Mark, just your thoughts on Denver and obviously the incredibly potent threat that they are.

00:17Yeah, great team. Great players, great competitors.

00:22Team we have a lot of respect for. We're obviously very familiar with them from the last few years.

00:27They've had a lot of continuity. We've had a lot of continuity.

00:30So great familiarity would be a great series and looking forward to competing.

00:37Yeah, isn't that that was very professional. Very nice.

00:41He's a professional head coach. Mark Deneau is a professional.

00:44He's not going to give he's not one to give the other team any material.

00:49Make sure to always say the right things. Well, we've talked about big spreads already.

00:54I mean, the Pacers last night, the Knicks and Celtics in this game.

00:59This game is actually the biggest. Ten and a half for the Thunder tonight.

01:0527 is the total.

01:09Yeah, just going to roll the ball out there and they're going to smash them, I guess.

01:13Right. I mean, they're just going to thump them. Bang. Night one.

01:15Listen, I get the two theories of all the smart people out there.

01:22There's so many smart people. And I I'm not in that sophistication realm.

01:27But I know that there's one side that says Denver just played in there and they're well oiled and good to go.

01:32And they just, you know, finished up the Clippers. So they're good to go.

01:36And then there's the side that says, oh, they've they've had a week off of rest.

01:42I mean, and they're they're just the high scoring output.

01:46You know, the productivity is unequal. They've had time to just relax and chill.

01:50Or there's the people that say, oh, they haven't played in a week.

01:53I mean, Russ never sleeps. They have no chance here.

01:57This is look, I think they played each other evenly when they played.

02:04I think that Denver's really good.

02:08I think that whoever won that series is still losing to the Thunder Clippers or Denver still losing.

02:15I like Oak City. They're young. They're fast. They're talented.

02:20They score. They defend. They block shots. They rebound.

02:23They have white boy, Rick Hartenstein, our boy.

02:27They have Caruso, two sickening vet defenders that do a lot to make them better.

02:34They are better than they've ever been. It's pretty simple to me.

02:37If they don't win this, you can start having conversations about they'll never win anything.

02:43OK, so if they blow it again this year with this team, then I'm starting to think, you know, they're they're the Clippers.

02:50They just don't win it. So it's now or never for the Thunder.

02:54So go out tonight and beat this team that just played seven games against a really good team.

03:01And you can't tell me it didn't take something out of them.

03:03And they've had two days to rest. Not even. They had to travel.

03:06So one day of rest, one day of travel. Get used to Oak City and get your ass thumped.

03:11I am going to take like a small pieces of each of these theories that people throw around.

03:19And that's how I'm going to use it tonight.

03:21I think maybe all these theories that people talk about, I think that maybe it helps Denver for a half.

03:30I'm thinking Denver in the first half plus six and a half.

03:33I like and then I think and then I think the Thunder will complete will smash them in the second half and probably cover the pregame number.

03:41So I'm taking Denver to come out. Might take OKC hasn't played in a week.

03:45Take them a half to maybe get going.

03:47They'll cover tonight, but I'm going to take Denver in the first half with the six and a half.

03:52That's my play. Thunder for the series are minus eight twenty eight twenty.

03:57Oh, look out. That's a big number.

04:00Well, look, I don't deny that this Denver team is a championship team.

04:08This is the same team essentially without Brown and without Pope.

04:14That's it. And Brown and Pope didn't matter that much.

04:18OK, so I think Christian Brown is better than Brown.

04:22Then Brent Brown was whatever his name was. Remember him?

04:26And then I think, you know, Pope was a decent three point shooter.

04:32At best, like you see him in Orlando.

04:35What is he now? At best, a decent three point shooter.

04:38He's not some dagger. He's not automatic from deep.

04:43He's decent. OK, so I think Denver's better than they were when they won the chip.

04:48He's decent.

04:49He's he's still there.

04:50estenberg.com.

04:51He has a good idea.

04:51He's a dick.

04:51He's a good idea.

04:52He's a perfect guy.

04:52He's not a good idea.

04:53He's,

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