After watching Minnesota struggle on the offensive end of the floor in crunch time against the Lakers I think this will be a tight game as OKC can shoot and rebound.
Minnesota won three of four meetings with Oklahoma City this season but they haven’t met since mid-December and all 4 meets were all close games. Oklahoma City is ahead of what we would have expected given their rotation at the start of the year, coupled with the preseason loss of Holmgren. The Thunder showed grit as they took down New Orleans on the road thanks to their crunch-time performance. We are going to back the underdog here with the Oklahoma City Thunder +5.5