{"id":10163,"date":"2010-10-31T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10163"},"modified":"2010-10-31T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T01:34:55","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-at-chicago-bulls-nba-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/portland-trail-blazers-at-chicago-bulls-nba-betting-preview-10163\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers at Chicago Bulls NBA Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers at Chicago Bulls
\nMonday, 11\/1\/10, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBA TV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago Bulls -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago Bulls -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 190
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 189.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chicago Bulls PG Derrick Rose has an MVP-type game last time out and his team is slightly favored over a Western Conference team on Monday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Portland heads to Chicago in search of its first 4-0 start in 11 years when they face the Bulls at the United Center.\u00a0 The Blazers haven\u2019t done it without some theatrics in overcoming three fourth-quarter deficits in all three games.\u00a0 \u201cYou don\u2019t want to continue to have to do that, but these guys are not dropping their heads,\u201d said head coach Nate McMillan.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re playing a 48-minute game.\u201d\u00a0 The Trail Blazers have won five of the past six meetings between the teams and have scored 100 points in each of those games, averaging 112.2 points in that span.\u00a0 The team is 13-7 ATS against Central division opponents. \u00a0Portland is currently listed as a small road underdog on the basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers were led by guard Brandon Roy\u2019s game-high 29 points in a 100-95 road victory over the Knicks.\u00a0 Portland has now started the season 2-0 on the road for the first time since the 1997-98 season.\u00a0 Roy said during the preseason he wants the ball \u201ca lot more\u201d this season, but the scoring has been very balanced thus far.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re sharing the ball,\u201d said point guard Andre Miller.\u00a0 The team has also taken care of the ball, turning the ball over less than its opponent in each game this season.\u00a0 Portland ranked second in the league in 2009-10 with just 12.3 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

Chicago produced a big comeback victory in a 101-91 win over the visiting Detroit Pistons on Saturday night and was led by point guard Derrick Rose.\u00a0 The Bulls trailed by 13 with three minutes remaining before going on a 19-2 run to win their home opener.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m just taking the shots they give me,\u201d said Rose.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re giving me wide-open shots, I\u2019m going to take them.\u201d\u00a0 The team knows they need to produce wins at home with the annual circus road trip looming in a couple weeks.\u00a0 Chicago is 44-41 ATS at home over the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have been dominated recently in this series, but gained a split last year, picking up a 115-111 home win on February 26.\u00a0 Rose was the ringleader of that contest and scored 33 points.\u00a0 Forward Luol Deng has offered little offensively through two games and sat out the fourth quarter on Saturday night.\u00a0 He is 7-for-23 from the field in the first two games.\u00a0 One potential problem that could cause an issue in tonight\u2019s game is the charity stripe.\u00a0 Chicago was trailing 70-27 in shot attempts from the line during halftime of its last game before outshooting the Pistons 26-12 after the break.<\/p>\n

Bettors may elect to back the Trail Blazers due to their 9-3-1 ATS run versus the Eastern Conference, while the Bulls are 4-0 ATS as a favorite.\u00a0 The favored team has also won the last four meetings.<\/p>\n

Another week of hardcourt action begins on Monday and there’s no better time to grab NBA expert picks from Maddux Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers at Chicago Bulls Monday, 11\/1\/10, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBA TV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago Bulls -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago Bulls -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 190 Current Total:\u00a0 189.5 Portland heads to Chicago in search of its first 4-0 start in 11 years when they face the Bulls at the United Center.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":8683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1366,174,521,3641,830,3674],"class_list":["post-10163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-brandon-roy","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-derrick-rose","tag-nate-mcmillan","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-united-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10164,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions\/10164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}