Los Angeles at Oklahoma City

The LA Lakers have no more margin for error as they have fallen down in their series to the Oklahoma City Thunder three games to one. The Lakers need to come out with a lot of defensive fire in this one and not allow the crowd to energize the Thunder, or the lights are going to go out early on their season. The Lakers have not been a good team all season when they are no-shows on the defensive end of the court as they stand at 7-20 when they allow a team to reach the century mark without overtime. Their backs are to the wall and the answer is going to have to be an early defensive stance. The Lakers have been better defensively after an ATS loss where they have played 5-1 to the UNDER in their last six. They stepped up the last time in this series after allowing the Thunder 119 points and they came back to held them to 77. Look for that to be the statement in game five early and play the first half UNDER the total.