For the record, the Kruger van Wyk-skippered Stags are not riding today on the first-round result.
"We're not going to have a 400 against 200-type of total because it only happens once every few years," Oram says.
The former New Zealand international allrounder cautions such results can actually work against his troops.
Instead, they'll need to embrace a prudent policy that doesn't require too much tinkering from the first two games.
Oram says finding good areas to put the ball to make batsmen play educated shots and hitting the deck hard will be on the agenda.
The team noticed a brown tinge typical of a rain-deprived region on their flight in on New Year's Eve so he didn't expect the compact Aorangi Oval, a two-hour drive away from Christchurch, to offer anything radically different.
Just as Mitchell Santner and Jono Boult had tightened the noose on CD in the previous match, the Stags need to stifle the Kings.
Black Cap Adam Milne returns from adhering to New Zealand Cricket's policy of managing the workload of those with high-twitch fibres.
Doug Bracewell exits from the revolving door in the hope of making any kind of start in the international arena with the second test against Sri Lanka, starting in Wellington tomorrow.
Manawatu seamer Bevan Small is on National Provincial A Tournament duties with CD A at Lincoln, Christchurch, from today.
"It's not a reflection on his performance but he's coming back from injuries," Oram explains.
Conversely Ben Wheeler returns into the mix of 13 after nursing a gluteal strain.
Primarily, the upshot of it all is that opening batsmen George Worker and allrounder Kieran Noema-Barnett will have to take "more responsibility with the ball".
Worker, who played two seasons with Canterbury before returning to the CD fold this summer, has told the Stags Aorangi Oval's outfield is lightning fast.
Van Wyk also is a former Canterbury representative.
The pragmatic must perceive that as a scenario of win toss, bat first today.
It is "no slight" on the other bowlers but, needless to say, injecting Milne's international-class lethal pace into the bowling attack will trouble the most adept of batsmen in the domestic scene, Oram says.
"In saying that, Seth Rance is doing very well. He's swinging the ball and putting it in good areas, especially at the death."
Small and seamer Andrew Mathieson, he says, were better than their figures suggested in a high-scoring affair.
Spinner Marty Kain has yet to find his form of old after returning from a side strain.
Oram says the nature of limited-overs cricket, with power plays and limited field settings, means the spittle shiners will have their work cut out.
"We're nowhere near perfect."
The players had had a few beers on New Year's Eve but Oram says few, if any, had actually contemplated staying up until the witching hour to herald in the new year.
It was back to training the next day.
The Kings are coming off a seven-wicket hiding to the Aces on Tuesday.
