Toronto Raptors vs Oklahoma City Thunder Prediction, Pick and Preview, February 9 (2/9): NBA

Toronto Raptors vs Oklahoma City Thunder Prediction, Pick and Preview, February 9 (2/9): NBA

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Odds
Time 8:10 p.m. EST
Raptors money line -600
Raptors spread -9.5
Thunder money line +425
Pelicans spread +9.5
Over / under 208

 

2021-2022 season stats
  Toronto Raptors Oklahoma City Thunder
Record 29-23 17-36
Road / home record 13-11 9-17
Streak 6W 2L
Points per game 108.38 100.96
Points allowed per game 106.81 107.45
Rebounds per game 45.12 46.00
Rebounds allowed per game 44.23 48.57
Over / under record 29-23 22-31

 

Preview

The Toronto Raptors travel to Oklahoma City to face the Thunder. These teams met in December and the Thunder beat Toronto by 1 point 110-109 as +7.5 pts underdogs but this time OKC will have to play with the absence of Gilgeous-Alexander and Robinson-Earl and Muscala is questionable. Thunder are 3-7 without Shai Gilgeous-Alexander this season.

TORONTO RAPTORS

The Raptors get here with a 6 game winning streak after a 116-101 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Monday. Pascal Siakam and Gary Trent Jr each scored 24 points for Toronto. Siakam led the team in rebounds with 11 and also had 8 assists. During the winning streak, Siakam is averaging 24 points, 11 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game.

Toronto's offense rank 17th in the league with an average of 108.4 points per game. The Raptors are shooting 44.1% overall and 35.6 percent from behind the three-point line. Fred VanVleet is the leading scorer for Toronto with an average of 21.6 points per game.

The team rank 9th in defense allowing 106.81 pts per game holding their opponents to 45.9% overall and 35.4% from behind the three-point line which are 18th and 21st respectively.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER

The Thunder have lost 2 straight games after falling to the Golden State Warriors 110-98 on Monday. They actually had the lead in the first quarter but didn't have the power to keep up with the Warriors. Oklahoma City shot 41.1% from the field, including 13 of 36 from three-point range, and turned the ball over 17 times in the loss. Lu Dort led the Thunder with 26 points in the loss.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are scoring an average of only 101.0 points per game which is 30th in the NBA and are allowing an average of 107.5 points per game which is 12th in the league.

BETTING TRENDS

Toronto are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 games.

Toronto are 1-4 when spread was -8 to -11.

OKC are 33-18-2 ATS this season and 16-8-2 ATS at home.

OKC are 32-17-2 as underdog.

Prediction

The Raptors seems like the obvious play here as they are on a hot winning streak but they don't cover these high spreads. The Thunder was up at some point in the game vs Warriors and they pushed the +12 spread at the end. Oklahoma are 6-4 ATS when spread was +8 to +11. I think they'll keep the margin under 10 points.

PICK: Thunder +9.5 (-110)

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