Oklahoma City -5.5
O/U 196

Right now I'm liking the under. Gun to head I say Heat +5.5 but I'm not ready to bet that yet.

posted on game 1 lines thread.

fyi - the Heat have not won let alone covered a game in which they were the dog all year long. In fact since "the big 3" teamed up they are 9-13-2 as dogs ATS and 9-15 SU.

Oh, and they are 11-17 ATS this year when playing @ above .500 team...

Expect a much more physical game.

Ill take the Heat.

& the under.

I'm sticking with Miami and under.

You might as well light your $$ on fire. Harden didn't even get his last game and the Thunder covered.

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Harden didn't even get his last game and the Thunder covered.

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True, but it was close. And James and Battier were the people on the Heat to play well, and Westbrook was on fire. He can't play like that every game.

I'll go thunder and over.

While that's true about Harden, it's not like the heat, particularly Wade played their best either. I'm interested in what happens for game 2. I'm leaning toward the thunder, but I wouldn't count the heat out just yet.

honestly, i think the difference is going to be coaching.

the thunder get better and better as the series goes on because they have a coach who doesn't lick windows.

spoelstra, on the other hand, just kind of walks around thinking of ways to turn his time in miami into a sweet college coaching gig.

thunder in five, mainly because the heat have two of the best players on the planet, and i don't see a sweep happening in a 2-3-2 series.

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You might as well light your $$ on fire. Harden didn't even get his last game and the Thunder covered.

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Like someone else said, Westbrook probably won't duplicate his game 1 output and Battier will almost definitely not score 17 again. Sefalosha's D is what kept Harden on the bench. Wouldn't surprise me to see that happen again.

O/U was a push.

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Like someone else said, Westbrook probably won't duplicate his game 1 output and Battier will almost definitely not score 17 again.

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welp, it happened again

Yep

swing and a miss on both.

thus why i don't give my money to bookies.

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Thunder and Under.

Miami is absolute toast. OKC didn't even play well for half of game 1 and still smoked them.

This is over in 5....6 at most.

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I'm still thinking heat in 6