NBA Playoffs Game 4: Best Bets and Player Props for Thunder vs. Timberwolves

Saturday’s 143-101 blowout towards the Minnesota Timberwolves needed to be laborious to look at for followers of the Oklahoma City Thunder — or anybody who took the OVER on an OKC participant prop. But that doesn’t imply we’re leaving them off our record of greatest NBA playoff bets for Monday, May 26.

Can Minnesota do it once more? Can the Timberwolves wallop the Thunder and make this sequence attention-grabbing? We’ll go over the reply to that query and extra in our record of right now’s greatest NBA playoff bets (odds by way of FanDuel until in any other case said).

Oklahoma City Thunder (-3) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (+128), o/u 218.5

This is when betting will get difficult as a result of we simply don’t know the way a lot weight to provide Game 3. Was it a one-off efficiency we’ll by no means see once more? Or have the true Timberwolves stood up, and we now have a sequence on our palms?

Minnesota was a stable house workforce (25-16), so that they deserve some credit score for the whipping they placed on OKC. But the Thunder have been 32-8 on the highway this season — they’re not afraid to play away from house.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won’t get held to 14 factors once more and won’t try simply 13 photographs (he took 27 and 21 in Games 1 and a pair of). This recreation will doubtless be shut, however OKC can be prepared this time round.

Pick: Oklahoma City -3

Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Minnesota Timberwolves: Player Props, Game 4

Anthony Edwards, OVER 8.5 rebounds at +118

Edwards solely averaged 5.7 per recreation in the course of the common season, however he’s been going above and past on the boards in the course of the playoffs. He averaged 8.4 per recreation within the first spherical, 7.6 within the convention semifinals, and he’s had 9 in every recreation of the convention finals.

OKC is a stable rebounding workforce, however Edwards has confirmed he can pull down 9+ towards the Thunder — he’s accomplished it in all three video games, whether or not issues are going proper or unsuitable for the Timberwolves.

Anthony Edwards, OVER 13.5 rebounds and assists at -114

I do know what you’re considering: “Why not go with his point total?” The reply is easy — I don’t belief it. Yes, Edwards has had a pair of 30+ level nights in a row (his level whole is ready at 27.8), however proper earlier than them, he had 18- and 22-point nights.

So, I don’t really feel like I can belief his level manufacturing. However, he’s recorded 13.5+ rebounds and assists in his final two video games (9 rebounds, six assists in Games 2 and three of this sequence) and in three of his final 4. He’ll do it once more tonight.

Isaiah Hartenstein, UNDER 18.5 Pts + Reb + Ast at -106

If you take a look at his regular-season averages (11.2 factors, 10.7 rebounds, 3.8 assists in 27.9 minutes), he might simply go over this whole. But he simply hasn’t been taking part in a lot of a task recently, beginning with the final couple of video games vs. Denver.

So far towards Minnesota, he’s averaging 8.0 factors, 6.3 rebounds, and 0.7 assists in 22 minutes per recreation. There’s no motive to assume his position will improve on this recreation.