Even before we saw Blake Griffin beastin' it up for the Clipjoint, they have already been able to take care of the Grizzlies in the past. With Eric Gordon who tremendously jumped his performance, the Clippers can and will compete better than the team that handled the Grizzlies last season. I'm taking the team with the better win rate at home than on the road and so taking the Los Angeles Clippers -1.0. I know, I know, you all should take great caution here when playing the Clippers. The moment anyone thinks they can string wins and make a run at the winning column, they flat out suck and just be themselves. Grizzlies will be playing the last of their 4 game trip and has never been good on the road (3-9) and given 2 day of rest (1-3). I don't think anyone has noticed it but the Clippers are good defensively at home. They've manage to keep playoff teams like the Lakers, Spurs, Dallas, New Orleans and even OKC bellow the century mark and at the same time keep it close with them through the game. That's why with a team that is still struggling to find their offense, I see good value on the UNDER 196.5 (and should go down by game time. Oh and did I mention that this will be an afternoon game?
Two teams playing good basketball. Indiana has won 6 of its last 10, two of the loses are less than 5 points. Atlanta has woken up and has won 7 of their last 9 games since they had the big talk with the team. Indiana should be feeling a little tired by now playing 3 games in 4 nights after a long road trip. Atlanta isn't very favorable when playing back to back either (3-4) but at least they've been owning the Pacers since the '08 season though this time the Pacers are more tougher with Collison and the improved Hibbert in the lineup. Pacers will definitely give the Hawks a run for their money and so instead of betting on the Atlanta Hawks -3.5 the UNDER 193.0 is the way to go. Atlanta and Indiana is almost molded to a certain similar pattern. They both play defense and could go on offensive spurts but in both teams' success tallying Ws they are scoring and limiting their opponents. We should see some sort of 97-95 type of ending where it will really go close to the total.
This Boston-Cats game has the telling that it could really be messy for the public. Before anything else, Doc's last play to setup and snatch the win from Philadelphia was pure genius. Back to the topic, check this, Bobcats has been a 6 point dog or more at Dallas (L), at Milwaukee (L), vs Orlando (W), vs San Antonio (P), at Miami (W), at New Orleans (L), and at Indiana (L). If you remove all the road games from the stat both games resulted to a close game with the Cats inching in for the cover. As much as I'd like to play them here they are another team who seem to can't find their offense. Not to mention they will be without Tyrus Thomas who gives them 11ppg, 5rpg and a block which is huge for a team who'll be playing more of Kwame Brown instead. Boston Celtics -6.0 is the play here. With the way Charlotte's offense has been going plus the loss of Thomas, they'd need to squeeze 90+ points in order to keep up with Boston (even without Shaq) that alone IMO merits them a win and cover here.
Be back in a bit for the rest of the writeups.
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