Which series will OKC end against Sac-Town?

Oklahoma City Thunder await the Sacramento Kings. The home side have stabilised recently after a slow start to the season: They managed only one win in their first seven games, but have won exclusively for the past three matchdays.

However, the opposition, as most recently in the shape of the last-place team in the West from New Orleans, also turned out to be quite easy. The visitors, for their part, have lost each of their last three matches and as a result have slipped to tenth place in the Western Conference.

For the game at the Paycom Center between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Sacramento Kings, however, the forecast includes an away win.

Oklahoma City Thunder – Statistics & current form

Oklahoma City Thunder, as described, have not started well into the new season. This is hardly surprising, because the squad seems to be below average. One exception is the Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. With an average of 22.4 points per game so far, he leads the scoring for the home side by a huge margin.

The 23-year-old is in his fourth season in the NBA and has steadily improved in previous years. Now, there are signs of another leap in the point guard’s performance and the decision to sign him long-term in the Sooner State in the summer can be seen as absolutely the right one.

Gilgeous-Alexander beckons a very respectable raise

In addition, the contract extension was cleverly designed on the part of the franchise. Gilgeous-Alexander received a rookie extension for five years, but if he is nominated as an All-Star during this period, the contract increases to a rookie max extension with an extra salary of 35 million US dollars. This should of course increase his motivation even more.

Apart from that, however, the team was turned upside down in the off-season, which is why it is in a rebuilding process. This is the next reason for the current lack of consistency in the performances of head coach Mark Daigneault’s team.

Only the Pistons are weaker offensively

With the exception of the Canadian, the Northwest Division squad is especially weak on the offensive end: only the Detroit Pistons score less than the OKC hoopsters. Against this background, the odds on a maximum of 107 points by the hosts in the game between the City Thunder and Kings are also worth a recommendation.

Projected line-up of Oklahoma City Thunder:
Dort – Bazley – Favors – Giddey – Gilgeous-Alexander

Sacramento Kings – Statistics & current form

The Sacramento Kings have been waiting for the next postseason for 15 seasons now. However, the chances of this have increased in the recent past, as the performances of the team from the Pacific Division have improved at least somewhat.

The start to the current NBA season can also be described as positive, although things have recently gone downhill again with three defeats in a row. However, two of the seven losses so far were against the top team from Utah, which had the best record of all teams in the NBA in the last regular season.

In addition, the defeats against the pros from the Mormon state were each moderate by a single-digit margin. Moreover, the threes are currently sitting. In the recent blowout against the Hornets from Charlotte, 22 attempts from downtown were sunk and a new franchise record was set.

Buddy Hield is almost as unerring as the “Chef “

Good shooting includes Richaun Holmes, who delivered his first 20-20 double-double in points and rebounds in this encounter. Also, only Steph Curry of the Warriors sinks more threes per game than Buddy Hield – averaging 4.4.

The eighth place in the respective rating with a value of 109.5 shows how reliably the offence is working at the moment. In view of this, the odds on a win by head coach Luke Walton’s selection with at least a five-point lead in Oklahoma’s game against Sacramento offer themselves on top of that.

Predicted Sacramento Kings lineup:
Barnes – Harkless – Holmes – Haliburton – Fox

Oklahoma City Thunder – Sacramento Kings Head-to-head comparison / H2H record

The basketball players from the capital of California have a series of three victories against OKC. The recent record away from home is also positive for the 1951 Western Conference winners: Three of the last four visiting games at the Paycom Center have been victorious.

Oklahoma City Thunder – Sacramento Kings Tip

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander played only 35 games last season as a serious injury kept him out of action. But now he is back in the squad of the 1979 champions and so far acts as clearly the strongest player in OKC.

However, SGA is often on his own, which is why even his appealing performances do not change the fundamental weakness of the four-time winners of the Western Conference. For the game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Sacramento Kings, the forecast therefore includes an away win.

While the hosts from the Sooner State have only been convincing in phases so far, the basketball players from the West Coast are usually more stable. The 1951 champions are solid forwards – only seven teams in the NBA currently have a better offensive rating than the Californians.

Admittedly, the visitors travel with three recent losses, but apart from the lost game against San Antonio, the performance of the Californians was still good. Unibet offers odds of 1.53 on the Oklahoma City Thunder and Sacramento Kings clash.