The Oklahoma City Thunder will make the trip over to Arizona and the US Airways Center for a Thursday night showdown with the Phoenix Suns.[ad-4468020]<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City Thunder (46-15) at Phoenix Suns (35-25) ATS Matchup Insight<\/a> | CappersPicks Insider Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The Thunder have won three in a row following a three-game slide, while the Suns have stumbled somewhat lately after a wild start to the season, dropping four of their last six games.<\/p>\n The Suns just haven\u2019t been able to get the job done at the defensive end in recent outings, allowing opponents to score 110.2 points per game over their last six contests. The team had surrendered just 95.3 points per game in winning their previous three games before that six-game stretch.<\/p>\n They\u2019ll need to figure things out in a hurry because the Thunder offense has been on a roll as they head into town. His production hasn\u2019t come at the expense of Kevin Durant either, as Durant scored a team-high 42 points in the team\u2019s last win over the 76ers.<\/p>\n As for the Suns, they could have help coming soon as Eric Bledsoe has been back practicing. He\u2019s been out since Dec. 30 with a knee injury since Dec. 30 but is expected back before the month is out. The team will need him back soon after fellow point guard Leandro Barbosa suffered a broken hand and could be out up to six weeks.<\/p>\n This game is an important one for Phoenix as it marks the end of a stretch in which they\u2019ve played 12 of 15 at home – they\u2019ll play 15 of their final 22 games on the road.<\/p>\n The Suns aren\u2019t in the kind of form they were in earlier this year, so it\u2019s unlikely they\u2019ll play the role of dragon-slayer on this night. <\/p>\n The team has been woefully inconsistent at the defensive end of the court, and that isn\u2019t a recipe for success with the Thunder coming to town, as Oklahoma City has really found another gear over the course of their current three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n The Thunder are 7-3 ATS in their last 10 road games, while the Suns are 2-5 ATS in their last seven games versus teams with a winning record.<\/p>\n The over is 9-3 in the last 12 meetings between these teams, and 4-1 in the Thunder\u2019s last five games.<\/p>\n The play: Oklahoma City -6, Over 216.5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thunder vs Suns Online Betting Odds The Oklahoma City Thunder will make the trip over to Arizona and the US Airways Center for a Thursday night showdown with the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":73146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10568,8471,61225,47671,9669,3124,4282,4398,44168],"class_list":["post-73143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-phoenix-suns","tag-oklahoma-city-vs-phoenix","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-suns","tag-thunder","tag-thunder-vs-suns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73148,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73143\/revisions\/73148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDate: Thursday, March 6, 2014
\nTime: 9:00 PM ET
\nVenue: US Airways Center
\nCity: Phoenix, Arizona
\nO\/U Odds: 216.5
\nSpread: Oklahoma City -6<\/strong>
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\nA big reason for that has been the play of Russell Westbrook, who finally appears to have his legs back under him. The Thunder had lost their first three games with Westbrook back in the lineup, but have won all three games since, scoring 118.0 points per game over the course of that streak, with Westbrook averaging 20.0 points, 8.3 assists, 4.7 rebounds, and 2.7 steals over the course of that streak. <\/p>\n