OKC Surprised at Home: Game 1 Loss Shakes Series Odds

Watch OKC Surprised at Home: Game 1 Loss Shakes Series Odds - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00OKC entered game number one last night, a minus 820 series outright favorite.

00:05They get game one taken from them on their own home floor, and now it's minus 320.

00:10Again, still very heavily favored to the Thunder's way of going,

00:15but again, it feels more as a competitive series than we were anticipating entering game one.

00:20No, it's fantastic. I love the fact that Denver won that game number one.

00:23Again, unless you have a ticket on OKC, you thought they would sweep,

00:25or even if you thought they would win and cover game number one, that is the difference here.

00:29But now you're taking a look at the pedigree, and that's always the question mark that we have.

00:32We've loved OKC the entire season.

00:34We didn't doubt that they were actually the best team with the best record,

00:37but as always, you can punch holes in a great story by saying, yeah, that's great,

00:40but they didn't win three straight championships looking for a fourth straight

00:43where they're used to having adversity in the playoffs.

00:45They cruised in round number one, but also understand this.

00:48They got a good punch from Memphis in Memphis, basically, without job, ran for two games.

00:52So it wasn't as like they had a sweep and won each one of those games by 15 and 20 points,

00:56like we're looking at, just say, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are already down 0-1 in their series.

01:00I'm interested in the bounce-back point because, again, adversity is going to face them at one point.

01:04You're looking at the lines here at the FanDuel Sportsbook for the next game already.

01:0711-and-a-half as a favorite here for the home team, OKC.

01:11I'm interested to see what Denver does because make no mistake about it,

01:13they've won a championship before.

01:15Denver's not saying, whew, man, mission accomplished, Ben.

01:17Got game number one.

01:18Who cares about game number two?

01:19Send Jokic back, you know, home for him to get rested and ready.

01:22I need to see that first half of OKC.

01:24I'm expecting it to be explosive.

01:26If I'm thinking about a way already to bet that game, give me OKC minus the points in the first half.

01:31Let's see what they got.