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Today features a game two playoff western conference matchup between Memphis and Oklahoma City. Game one was a little deceiving and we should see more of each teams strengths today. Game one had an ill-advised start time with both teams on little rest. The first half was awful offensively, and then the game took an unusual frenetic pace.

Memphis will tone that down and do what they do best defensively. Houston showed in a couple of games that you can negate the rest of their team offensively besides for Durant. Kevin Martin hasn’t shown enough consistency to be dependable.

The Grizzlies are one of the better teams at making adjustments and will do so throughout the series. They have a good shot at making the series at one game apiece tonight. But the better play is the under on the total of 186.