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

Saturday’s 143-101 blowout towards the Minnesota Timberwolves needed to be laborious to wait for lovers of the Oklahoma City Thunder — or any person who took the OVER on an OKC participant prop. But that doesn’t imply we’re leaving them off our checklist of easiest 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 move over the solution to that query and extra in our checklist of these days’s easiest NBA playoff bets (odds by the use of FanDuel until differently mentioned).

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

This is when making a bet will get tough as a result of we simply don’t understand how 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 have now a chain on our arms?

Minnesota was once a forged house group (25-16), so that they deserve some credit score for the whipping they placed on OKC. But the Thunder had been 32-8 at the street this season — they’re now not afraid to play clear of house.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won’t get held to 14 issues once more and won’t try simply 13 photographs (he took 27 and 21 in Games 1 and 2). This recreation can be shut, however OKC shall be in a position 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 most effective averaged 5.7 in step with recreation right through the steady season, however he’s been going above and past at the forums right through the playoffs. He averaged 8.4 in step with 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 forged rebounding group, however Edwards has confirmed he can pull down 9+ towards the Thunder — he’s finished it in all 3 video games, whether or not issues are going proper or mistaken 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 resolution is inconspicuous — I don’t consider it. Yes, Edwards has had a couple of 30+ level nights in a row (his level overall is ready at 27.8), however proper sooner than them, he had 18- and 22-point nights.

So, I don’t really feel like I will be able to consider his level manufacturing. However, he’s recorded 13.5+ rebounds and assists in his ultimate two video games (9 rebounds, six assists in Games 2 and 3 of this sequence) and in 3 of his ultimate 4. He’ll do it once more this night.

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

If you have a look at his regular-season averages (11.2 issues, 10.7 rebounds, 3.8 assists in 27.9 mins), he may simply move over this overall. But he simply hasn’t been enjoying a lot of a job in recent times, beginning with the ultimate couple of video games vs. Denver.

So a long way towards Minnesota, he’s averaging 8.0 issues, 6.3 rebounds, and 0.7 assists in 22 mins in step with recreation. There’s no reason why to suppose his position will building up on this recreation.