This Week: 15-8
Tuesday: 7-0
Tough matchup for the Pacers. Hibbert will have a tough time down low with the one of the League's best shot blocker and the newly improved Blatche whoever gets him as their assignment (I'm guessing McGee gets him). Washington has no problem in their front court and again, it will be up to Granger to carry the scoring. Him playing 38 minutes against Memphis then adding 41 more last night won't help his team since Washington is a different team at home than they are outside their arena. Nick Young is playing great and if not better at home cancels out Rush or Dunleavy's points production. Collison isn't a huge factor either since John Wall is pretty much back and close to 100% healthy. Rashard Lewis should pretty much be adjusted to his new home (I give new players 3-4 game or a week to adjust in their new team/role). Taking Washington Wizards -2.5 over the Pacers and will probably take the other team the next time. As for the total, I believe it has a decent chance to go UNDER. Both teams are lacking in fire power at the moment. Not pulling the trigger here just in case John Wall or Nick Young goes on a scoring rampage and everyone else carries on with that pace. Just to give you a bit more stat to use, Pacers game went UNDER 6 of their last 10 and the Wizards going 8 of 10. Their home-road o/u record combines for 8-19-0.
I know Detroit is pretty bad right now but they do love showing up against elite teams right? I wouldn't pass up on this one since they are catching a supposedly tired Boston team playing back to back (3-4 ats). It's hard to not believe the Pistons will try and go cover this line since they've been pretty legit as an ATS team being one of the best out there at 18-13-0 at the moment. Anyway, I'm banking on Detroit Pistons +6.5 showing up and go for the cover in this game. They can compete with the Celtics and hopefully not pull an Indiana Pacers on them in the second half. As for the total, I'm on the edge but decided to jump on it. I think it may go OVER 188.5 since the Pistons plays faster and shoots a lot better at home. Given the tired legs of this old Celtics team, they should be half a second later and allow more points or at least their average of allowing 91.1 points. Boston can get to 95 easy and so I believe we get a total of 186.0 right away. What worries me is that the line went down already from 189.
Okay, this is the time where we ride the Lakers train. Los Angeles Lakers -2.0. Because they won't lose 4 in a row again. LOL. No real reason, my gut tells me that no one believes in the Lakers at the moment and every smarty pants will think that this is a trap and bet on the Hornets because they are a 2-point home dog. My gut tells me they play well tomorrow and win. That's pretty much about it.
Miami Heat -4.5. The line is so low that it seems very suspicious. I don't care since they are on a roll. Get it before it goes as high as 5.5.
Memphis Grizzlies -4.0 because Sacramento is last years' New Jersey Nets.
Now a game that can be capped. The play is Utah Jazz -2.5 and here's why. Gordon and Blake Griffin made them a competitive team and if you remove one of the two, they're back to square one. Clippers doesn't have an answer to the Jazz' front court and I doubt they stop them from getting 45+ points in the paint. The only way LAC could beat them to it is to hit their 3-pointers. In the second matchup between the two that went OT. Blake Griffin was defended well and was not given his 10+ FTA en route to only 16 points (compared to the 35 he dropped earlier) and Eric Gordon shot 0% from the 3 and 41% in FG though still scoring 27. On the other hand, Deron Williams is scoring at will against the Clippers dropping 26 in the first game and 30 in the second game.
What do you think fellas?
BOL.