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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.