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00:00That's it. That's the second game tonight. OKC off a week off.
00:03We'll take on Denver, who won that seventh game on Saturday night against the Clippers.
00:07Here is Mark Deneau, the head coach of the Thunder, getting ready for the Nuggets.
00:12Mark, just your thoughts on Denver and obviously the incredibly potent threat that they are.
00:17Yeah, great team. Great players, great competitors.
00:22Team we have a lot of respect for. We're obviously very familiar with them from the last few years.
00:27They've had a lot of continuity. We've had a lot of continuity.
00:30So great familiarity would be a great series and looking forward to competing.
00:37Yeah, isn't that that was very professional. Very nice.
00:41He's a professional head coach. Mark Deneau is a professional.
00:44He's not going to give he's not one to give the other team any material.
00:49Make sure to always say the right things. Well, we've talked about big spreads already.
00:54I mean, the Pacers last night, the Knicks and Celtics in this game.
00:59This game is actually the biggest. Ten and a half for the Thunder tonight.
01:0527 is the total.
01:09Yeah, just going to roll the ball out there and they're going to smash them, I guess.
01:13Right. I mean, they're just going to thump them. Bang. Night one.
01:15Listen, I get the two theories of all the smart people out there.
01:22There's so many smart people. And I I'm not in that sophistication realm.
01:27But I know that there's one side that says Denver just played in there and they're well oiled and good to go.
01:32And they just, you know, finished up the Clippers. So they're good to go.
01:36And then there's the side that says, oh, they've they've had a week off of rest.
01:42I mean, and they're they're just the high scoring output.
01:46You know, the productivity is unequal. They've had time to just relax and chill.
01:50Or there's the people that say, oh, they haven't played in a week.
01:53I mean, Russ never sleeps. They have no chance here.
01:57This is look, I think they played each other evenly when they played.
02:04I think that Denver's really good.
02:08I think that whoever won that series is still losing to the Thunder Clippers or Denver still losing.
02:15I like Oak City. They're young. They're fast. They're talented.
02:20They score. They defend. They block shots. They rebound.
02:23They have white boy, Rick Hartenstein, our boy.
02:27They have Caruso, two sickening vet defenders that do a lot to make them better.
02:34They are better than they've ever been. It's pretty simple to me.
02:37If they don't win this, you can start having conversations about they'll never win anything.
02:43OK, so if they blow it again this year with this team, then I'm starting to think, you know, they're they're the Clippers.
02:50They just don't win it. So it's now or never for the Thunder.
02:54So go out tonight and beat this team that just played seven games against a really good team.
03:01And you can't tell me it didn't take something out of them.
03:03And they've had two days to rest. Not even. They had to travel.
03:06So one day of rest, one day of travel. Get used to Oak City and get your ass thumped.
03:11I am going to take like a small pieces of each of these theories that people throw around.
03:19And that's how I'm going to use it tonight.
03:21I think maybe all these theories that people talk about, I think that maybe it helps Denver for a half.
03:30I'm thinking Denver in the first half plus six and a half.
03:33I like and then I think and then I think the Thunder will complete will smash them in the second half and probably cover the pregame number.
03:41So I'm taking Denver to come out. Might take OKC hasn't played in a week.
03:45Take them a half to maybe get going.
03:47They'll cover tonight, but I'm going to take Denver in the first half with the six and a half.
03:52That's my play. Thunder for the series are minus eight twenty eight twenty.
03:57Oh, look out. That's a big number.
04:00Well, look, I don't deny that this Denver team is a championship team.
04:08This is the same team essentially without Brown and without Pope.
04:14That's it. And Brown and Pope didn't matter that much.
04:18OK, so I think Christian Brown is better than Brown.
04:22Then Brent Brown was whatever his name was. Remember him?
04:26And then I think, you know, Pope was a decent three point shooter.
04:32At best, like you see him in Orlando.
04:35What is he now? At best, a decent three point shooter.
04:38He's not some dagger. He's not automatic from deep.
04:43He's decent. OK, so I think Denver's better than they were when they won the chip.
04:48He's decent.
04:49He's he's still there.
04:50estenberg.com.
04:51He has a good idea.
04:51He's a dick.
04:51He's a good idea.
04:52He's a perfect guy.
04:52He's not a good idea.
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