My Cats has been horrible this season. And as I've doubted them to make it to the playoffs unless they get a real PG, I believe they'd continue to suck till they can get someone who can run Brown's system. This makes it hard to cap totals for Cats game but sides ain't a problem. New Jersey has creamed the Cats twice last season and they are thrice as bad last year than they are now. With no real Center and Point guard at the moment, I don't see the Bobcats competing much against a Nets team who has improved since last season. Looking for New Jersey's continuous success so taking the Nets -1.5 here. If you'd ask me about totals, I'd give you the OVER because a.) Nets now know how to score buckets and b.) Cats will always be running if you let DJ run your offense.
Wow, how close was that from getting the 76ers' first win? Anyway, I think they continue to suck until they can get a Hawes to play well in the 5 position, stop Jrue from being a TO machine and get on a working starting 5 at the end of November. Indiana looks like they're on the right track with Hibbert showing that he's a promising player and Dunleavy/Granger looking really healthy. I'm all on Indiana ML here (that is if they are still +2 by game time). The only thing that worries me is that when we see a home-and-home setup usually no one sweeps/get swept on that kind of schedule. Both teams doesn't have a look ahead game either and it's even easier to pick Indiana because 76ers are playing back to back games after losing in OT last night so take the Pacers with caution. Oh yeah, too much respect for 76ers' offense opening at 202. I say let's go UNDER!
As much as I'm high on my Pac Juice (Manny Pacquiao) I'm still getting so much of that Magic Kool Aid. Seriously, you postpone one game to give Magic some more rest so you can have them play a game at home after getting schooled by 26 points by the super friends. Talk about letting those frustrations out. With Beasley hurt taking out one of Kurt Rambis' few offensive options I'd say they'd be lucky if they can get to 90 points again. Orlando -16.5 is the play, heck I'd take them as high as -18 but that's just me. As for the total, I'm passing up on that. Something tells me Orlando blows them out but the total land somewhere under 203 points.
Were the Bucks looking ahead to the Boston game last night? Nah, Portland just caught them napping plus throw in a bad second half and you got yourself a blow out. Anyway, the only reason not to back the Celtics -6.5 is that they are an old team who plays twice or thrice worst when playing back to back. Other than that, I think Bucks will have a hard time with their size the way they did against Portland. Celtics are really scary right now with the way Rondo is playing. The man is insane dishing out 16.8 APG which can only be achieved by a created player in NBA 2K11 (lol kidding).
The only reason why I played and won that huge Hornets ML against the Spurs is because Chris Paul and the Hornets are very much a team that is made even stronger when riding a momentum. And with a 3 game streak against a winless Houston team playing at home, you'd definitely expect a tight contest here. Here we go again playing both Hornets ML and Hornets +4.5 over the Rockets. I believe we'll see a pretty even matchup here in every position except that I see the Hornets going off against the Rockets' who has showed little interest in playing defense the last 3 games. I believe they'll put so much emphasis on it in their practice and try out slowing the tempo and playing tighter thus giving the UNDER 202.5 so much value.
I kinda like the idea of taking the home team in a situations like this plus I like this setup where the opponent do not know who'll step up with the scoring. Melo has always averaged 24ppg for the Nuggets while night in - night out it has always been a different option for the Nuggets. One night it could be Afflalo, the other night it could be Al Harrington. Then again, that's the very reason why I like Dallas Mavericks +3.0 here. Despite Dallas not getting much of a competition in the 2 wins they had I believe they've shown a lot more consistency than the Nuggets not to mention you have Jason Kidd Averaging 11/11/5 for you. And oh, with the same line up, Dallas nabbed last season' season series 2-1.
Passing up on the Toronto game but I'm leaning with the points. Utah just pulverized the Thunders and I never wanted to play against them at specially when I'm betting on a team who doesn't have any go to guy. The Brazilian Blur has been a big blur in Canada even during the preseason and on the other hand everyone knows how tough it is to play in Jerry Sloan's court.
On the San Antonio-Phoenix game, I think 208 points is 8-12 points too high. Spurs can't get enough production from Duncan anymore while the Suns don't have any bigs to do real basketball stuff like rebounding. I think we'll see both teams engage each other on a shoot out but miserably fail. UNDER 208 is the play here. Spurs -1 looks really good as well only because the Suns will be terrible in rebounding the ball plus Tony Parker looks healthier than ever.
Los Angeles Lakers -6.0 because they're the defending champs and I want Lamar Odom in my fantasy roster with those stats.
What do you think guys?
BOL.