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Portland Trail Blazers @ Oklahoma City Thunder Under 193
The Oklahoma City Thunder have been an Under machine lately, and we look for that pattern to continue at home tonight vs. a defensive oriented team in the Portland Trail Blazers.
The Under is 7-2 in the last nine Oklahoma City games overall, as well as a perfect 8-0 in the last eight Thunder home games. This is not entirely due to bad offense either, as the Thunder are coming off of one of their better defensive performances in a shocking 96-95 upset of the Spurs on the road in San Antonio.
This is not to say that the offense has not been a major contributing factor to this amazing Under run, as Oklahoma City has now gone 16 consecutive games without reaching 100 points. After playing respectable offense in the first half of the year, the offense is now sputtering to the point where the Thunder have averaged just 92.4 points on 42.5 percent shooting the last five games.
Things do not figure to improve tonight vs. a Portland defense that is allowing only 95.1 points per game for the entire season. Sure, the Blazers have allowed over 100 points in three of the last four games, but two of those came vs. fast paced teams (Suns, Jazz) and the third one was in overtime. We look for them to play closer to their normal season average here tonight.
Blazers road games are averaging a combined 191.4 points this season, and given the current struggles of the Oklahoma City offense, you could probably shave a couple of points off of that average here.
Pick: Blazers/Thunder Under 193
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