The Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder will face each other in the NBA regular season.
Tournament – NBA;
Date – 11.01.2023;
Kick-Off – 00:30 UK;
Venue – FTX Arena (19.600);
City – Miami, Florida, USA.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #1 – Handicap (-3) for Heat – 1.775.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #2 – Total Points Under 228.5 – 1.625.
The Heat should win on home soil. The Florida team has not been at its best recently, but Oklahoma is not as strong an opponent as they have been in the past. We believe that Spoelstra’s men will have no problems against the Thunder.
The Miami Heat’s defence is good enough. The Florida team doesn’t rush offensively and acts slowly. It’s likely that they won’t make any changes against the Thunder. This is not going to be a high-scoring match.
Three wins and two losses. The result of the Heat’s last games. Last round, the team lost to the Brooklyn Nets (101-102). For Miami, Jimmy Butler was the best player with 26 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist.
Prior to that, the team had wins over the Los Angeles Clippers (110-100), Utah Jazz (126-123) and Phoenix Suns (104-96).
However, another fiasco happened. The Miami Heat failed in their game against the Los Angeles Lakers (109-112).
The Heat is in 8th place in the East. They have 21 wins and 20 losses.
The Heat is averaging 108.7 points per game (109.6 at home).
In the last five head-to-head meetings, the Heat have won consistently.
The Oklahoma City Thunder continued their winning streak. After success against the Washington Wizards (127-110), they followed up with a surprising win over the Dallas Mavs (120-109). Shai Gilgeous-Alexander contributed to the victory for the OKC Thunder. The guard scored 33 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
By the way, the Mavs lost to them most likely due to the absence of their leader Luka Doncic.
The Oklahoma City Thunder is 13th in the Western Conference but is just one win away from the play-in zone. The Thunder have 40 games under their belt with 18 wins and 22 losses.
The Thunder have conceded at least 115 points in 12 of the 18 meetings.
In our opinion, the teams will take to the field with the following line-ups:
Miami Heat: Kyle Lowry – Tyler Herro – Jimmy Butler – Haywood Highsmith – Bam Adebayo.
Oklahoma City Thunder: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander – Josh Giddey – Luguentz Dort – Jalen Williams – Jaylin Williams.
Omer Yurtseven (Out), Nikola Jovic (Out), Duncan Robinson (Out), Bam Adebayo (Day-to-day), Caleb Martin (Out) and Udonis Haslem (Day-to-day) are injured for the Miami Heat.
Chet Holmgren (Out), Ousmane Dieng (Out), Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (Out) and Aleksej Pokusevski (Out) are injured for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The fixture will be played at FTX Arena (19.600) in Miami, Florida, USA.
This starting whistle will sound on the 11th of December, 2023, at 00:30 UK Time.
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