Game Two Preview: Thunder vs. Timberwolves in Game Two

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00:00We get to game number two tonight in Oklahoma City, the Thunder winning the opening game of

00:04this set by 26, a seven and a half point favorite for game number two and a total on the rise now

00:10at 216 and a hug. Vecchio, in terms of the overall duration of this series, how crucial is it for

00:18Minnesota to be competitive tonight to make this a tightly contested Western Conference Finals?

00:24Not only be competitive, I legitimately think they need to come away with the win tonight if

00:28they're going to be caught in this series. If they don't come away with this win, I would say it's

00:32five games, maybe six, at like maybe six. But realistically, I think we'd be looking at five

00:38games if OKC comes away with the win tonight. If the Timberwolves can get this, they absolutely

00:42can split when they're back at home, then we're going to be in for a series. But it has to start

00:46early. You guys were just talking about Ant Edwards coming out strong. You could play his first quarter

00:50prop, whatever it might be. The issue for the Timberwolves, and I spoke about this on Monday,

00:54I talked about Rudy Gobert under nine and a half points. That prop has dropped to six and a half.

00:59Gobert and Mike Conley are just non-factors on offense. It's just like they're going out there

01:03saying, Edwards, Julius Randle, save us. Maybe we get a little bit of scoring from McDaniels. You get

01:08Nas Reed and DiVincenzo, who weren't good in the first game, but those are the players that need

01:12to step up. So defensively, when I'm looking at this, I'm saying like, OK, Rudy Gobert, score

01:17five, six, seven, eight points. Mike Conley's the same. You have two players, two starters that

01:21are going to combine for fewer than 15 points. They're non-factors on offense. Those are the players

01:27that have to step up because defensively, they just throw whatever they want at Randle

01:30and Ants, and they can stop them, and then no one else is scoring.

01:34Only 88 points for the T-Wolves in the opening game. Vecchio, what is your favorite prop play

01:39for game number two of the Western Conference Finals tonight?

01:42It's got to be Hartenstein for the Thunder, under eight and a half points, six of eight

01:46in game one. Listen, they're going to be scoring, the Thunder, that is. But again, it's going

01:50to be coming mostly from SGA, the new MVP. We're going to be seeing plenty of scoring

01:54from Jalen Williams, but we're just not going to see a whole lot from Hartenstein. Chet

01:58Holmgren will have his role of players off the bench, but it's just not his role to score

02:02a ton.