Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Oklahoma City Thunder will battle the Dallas Mavericks in game 2 of their best of 7 Western conference finals series on Thursday night.
Start time from Dallas is slated for 9PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN.
The point spread opened up in this NBA playoff game with the home club Dallas Mavericks favored by –6 points with an over under of 198 points.
Early money has seen movement come on the side of the underdog as the Dallas Mavericks is now lined as a -5 ½ point betting favorite.
The total has moved up to 198 ½ points.
Those betting the Dallas Mavericks on the money line will lay –250 odds with the road underdog Oklahoma City Thunder +210 odds to earn a game 2 win with the points no factor in the wager.
The Dallas Mavericks jumped out to the 1-0 series lead with their 121-112 home victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder as a -6 point favorite. The game flew well over the total of 194 ½ points.
After being held to 20 first quarter points following a nine day layoff the Mavericks accumulated 101 points in the next three quarters to post the win.
The Mavs shot 53.4% from the floor in the win and connected on 9 of 23 from three. The team was outstanding at the free throw line making 34 of 36 shots.
Dallas lost the battle on the boards by a 42-38 margin.
Dirk Nowitzki like he did during the regular season against OKC had another monster game. The veteran posted 48 points on 12 of 15 shooting and a perfect 24 of 24 from the free throw line.
The Mavericks bench was huge in the win with 53 points.
Jason Terry led the bench crew with 24 points on 8 of 16 shooting and 4 of 8 from three.
J.J. Barea had 21 points on a very good 8 of 12 from the floor.
Oklahoma City shot 47.2% shooting in the loss and 7 of 16 from three. The Thunder did a good job of getting to the free throw line as they made 37 of 43 shots.
Kevin Durant led OKC with 40 points and 8 rebounds on 10 of 18 shooting and 18 of 19 from the line. Durant pulled down 8 rebounds.
Point guard Russell Westbrook had a poor game overall for the Thunder with 3 of 15 shooting and 3 assists. Westbrook did get to the line 18 times and made 14 free throws.
Serge Ibaka delivered with 17 points on 7 of 11 shooting.
Center Kenrick Perkins continues to not produce offensively for the Thunder as he had just 7 points on 3 of 4 shooting.
The Thunder bench produced just 22 points.
James Harden came off the bench for 12 points on 5 of 9 from the floor.
Like we said in our game 1 preview it will be tough for OKC to win when one of the big 2 fails to deliver a quality game.
Trend: Dallas Mavericks is 15-0 ATS in their past 15 games.
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