After pushing through the Spurs and Trail Blazers respectively, the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors meet in the Western Conference Finals on Monday for Game One of their best-of-seven series at the Oracle Arena. The game will be the first of two-consecutive matches at Oakland before the series shifts over to Oklahoma City for Games Three and Four.

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The Thunder are coming fresh from eliminating the highly defensive San Antonio team in six games 4-2, while the Warriors dispatched Portland in five matches 4-1.

The top-seeded Warriors won all their three regular-season encounters with the third-seeded Thunder on the way to their record-shattering 73-win season. However, slowing down Oklahoma City's dynamic duo of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook will be a very tough task to be done.

"They're an explosive team. They're clicking right now and found a good recipe to beat a tough Spurs team," the league's back-to-back MVP Curry said. "That says a lot about how they're playing right now."

The Golden State is the No. 1 team in the postseason averaging 114 points per contest, but the Thunder have held their opponents to just 98 points per game in this playoffs. The Warriors, being the league's top three-point shooting team, have knocked down 41 percent of their attempts from beyond the arc region while Oklahoma City have connected 34 percent from the three-point range.

Oklahoma is also a good free throw shooting team having an average of 80 percent shooting accuracy from the foul line while the Warriors are shooting 74 percent.

Oklahoma City have the edge in the rebound department, the Northwest division team have outrebounded their opponents by 8.4 boards per outing.

"It's a different type of series, we're absolutely going to have to play better," Golden State's head Coach Steve Kerr said. "This is a much bigger team. Rebounding will be key."

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