Thunder Gameday: Two Premier Second-Year Talents Face Off

To wrap up a stretch of house video games this week, the Oklahoma City Thunder will host the Toronto Raptors at Paycom Center.

The Raptors are within the playoff image at this level, whereas the Thunder have misplaced four-straight contests. Regardless, this isn’t anticipated to be a blowout recreation, however moderately a aggressive one.

Tonight will likely be Oklahoma City’s debut of their model new City Edition uniforms that launched earlier this week.

ODDS: 

The Thunder enter the day as 5.5-point underdogs to the Raptors, and the overall over/underneath is 221 factors.

KEYS TO THE GAME: 

While Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is clearly the most effective participant on the Thunder, there’s an attention-grabbing dynamic with one in all his teammates in tonight’s recreation.

The matchup between second-year gamers Josh Giddey and Scottie Barnes will likely be fascinating to observe. They have been taken two picks aside from each other within the 2021 NBA Draft and each had nice success as rookies. Tonight, they’ll have the prospect to go head-to-head which needs to be extraordinarily thrilling.

One of the key keys to this recreation would be the play of Aleksej Pokusevski. All season lengthy, Oklahoma City performs nicely when he’s having night time. If the Serbian prospect is ready to play at a excessive stage, the Thunder ought to have probability of profitable.

Not to say, Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging greater than 30 factors per recreation this season and can completely be the focus of the offense. Oklahoma City goes as he goes.

RECORDS: 

Oklahoma City Thunder (4-7) vs. Toronto Raptors (7-5)

WHEN: 

Friday, Nov. 11, 2022 at 7:00 PM CT

LOCATION: 

Paycom Center – Oklahoma City, OK

TV/RADIO: 

Bally Sports Oklahoma, NBA League Pass, 98.1 FM The Sports Animal

FINAL WORD: 

This will likely be Oklahoma City’s final recreation of the week. On Monday, the Thunder will begin a highway journey in Boston in opposition to the Celtics.

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