OKC Thunder Face Crucial Game at Home Against Nuggets

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00:00All right, second game tonight, OKC down a game at home against the Nuggets.

00:05Here is Thunder head coach Mark Deneau.

00:08They haven't had much adversity this year, considering how many games they won,

00:12but says they can handle a little bit of it.

00:14At the end of the day, you know, we talked about it before the playoffs.

00:17We talked about it before the season.

00:19This is how you forge yourself into the team you want to be.

00:23You know, you forge yourself into it through success and through adversity.

00:27It's hard to handle success.

00:28This team's done a great job of handling success.

00:29It's hard to handle adversity.

00:31This team's done a great job of handling adversity.

00:33If you're competing, you're going to have your share of success and adversity.

00:37You know, this isn't the first time we've handled adversity before.

00:40This isn't the first time we've handled adversity in the playoffs.

00:42Teams made a great habit of that.

00:43We have to continue to do that here.

00:45I think Deneau and the Thunder have to play on another level tonight than they did on Monday night.

00:54I thought Monday night they looked good.

00:56And I think tonight they need to look great.

00:59They cannot look good tonight.

01:01Good's not going to cut it against the Joker and the Nuggets.

01:05You know, the difference between these two teams are is that a goal for Arsenal all of a sudden.

01:11Too bad they need two more.

01:12Too bad they need two more and it's in the 75th minute.

01:15That's their problem.

01:16But honestly, when it comes to the Thunder, they're dealing with champions here.

01:23This is a team that has a ring, that got it done, that knows how to win a championship.

01:30And you can say whatever you want about the Thunder.

01:34I just know this.

01:36They've never sniffed one.

01:37No, they have not.

01:40Especially this group that they have now.

01:43Joker in the playoffs so far.

01:46Second in points.

01:47First in bounds.

01:47First in dimes.

01:48First in steals.

01:50First in everything.

01:51He's a Joker.

01:53He's first in it all.

01:54And how about Westbrook?

01:55He's better.

01:56He's the best player in the world.

01:58It's not Luka Doncic.

02:00It's the Joker.

02:03He is on another plane altogether than Luka Doncic.

02:08I'll say this.

02:09I think Luka is a fantastic showman, showboat player.

02:13He can do it all.

02:14He can also go to the buffet with Uncle Futrelli and eat for six hours straight.

02:20You know, they used to have, like, you know, this Mother's Day, you got brunch, you know?

02:24Carver High and I would go to brunch together in Vegas.

02:27And brunch to us is unlimited, all-you-can-eat food nonstop.

02:32And it becomes an endurance.

02:35How long can Carver High and Pharrell eat?

02:37We can eat for six hours straight and drink for 12 more.

02:43Home run for the butler puts one in right center field for the ace.

02:474-0 ace.

02:48The butler gives those fans sitting on the hill out there a nice souvenir.

02:53Good job by him.

02:56Russell Westbrook defensively holding opponents to 34% from the floor, 29% from three.

03:02He has been an outstanding defender.

03:05Brody.

03:06Ten and a half as well in this game tonight.

03:09For Oklahoma City, down one at home, 230 and a half.

03:13Big total.

03:14You know, I got this feeling that they'll do it tonight and get it done.

03:22And the number's outrageous.

03:24It's just, as a better, you're literally going to have to sit there and suffer.

03:31You will not be free and clear of this number until at least 43, 44 minutes.

03:38I mean, of game.

03:40I'm not talking about, you know, I'm talking two and a half hours of basketball.

03:45You're going to have to get to the 44-minute mark of that NBA game before you think you're free and clear of covering that number.

03:53Dangerous way to make a living betting on this game tonight.

03:57They absolutely have to win.

04:00So does Boston.

04:01They should both cover.

04:03But I'm never betting on the Boston Celtics ever because I hate them that much.

04:08And I don't care what you think of me.

04:09And then I'll do it.

04:11I'll take a shot with the thunder tonight.

04:15And what is the money line, by the way, on them tonight?

04:18If they're laying ten and a half, it has to be enormous.

04:21Yeah, it's a big number.

04:23If you give me one moment, I'll punch it up for you here.

04:25Yeah, it's minus 520 for them on the money.

04:28I mean, that is, how is that possible?

04:31That is just sickening.

04:32Ten point.

04:33Considering they lost game one.

04:36I don't care that they should win tonight.

04:39That number's absurd.

04:41They couldn't finish the deal in game one and you got to lay, I mean, over a half a dime.

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