{"id":10208,"date":"2010-11-02T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T03:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10208"},"modified":"2010-11-03T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:00:09","slug":"dallas-mavericks-vs-denver-nuggets-nba-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/dallas-mavericks-vs-denver-nuggets-nba-predictions-10208\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks vs Denver Nuggets NBA Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Denver Nuggets
\nWednesday, 11\/3\/10, 9:000 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 206
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 206<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony averaged just 15.0 points per game versus the Dallas Mavericks last season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas is coming off a dominating 99-83 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers in its first road game of the 2010-11 season.\u00a0 The Mavericks\u2019 size is causing major problems for their opponents, limiting opponents to an NBA-worst 37.4 percent shooting and 86.7 points per game.\u00a0 \u201cWhen we\u2019re able to get stops, it makes the game so much easier,\u201d said Shawn Marion.\u00a0 \u201cWhen everybody is helping each other, you see an entirely different team out there.\u201d\u00a0 Forward Caron Butler scored a game-high 17 points versus the Clippers, marking the first time he\u2019s led Dallas in scoring thus far in 2010-11.\u00a0 He did so just four times last season, but he\u2019s been trying to score aggressively all season, actually leading the team with 33 field goal attempts during its two game homestand.\u00a0 Dallas is 17-5 ATS in its last 22 games playing on two days rest and the NBA lines page has them listed as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks will fly back to Dallas after tonight\u2019s game for a meeting with the Nuggets on Saturday to finish off this home-and-home stretch.\u00a0 All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzi posted double-doubles in Dallas\u2019 two wins over Denver last season, while the team held Nuggets start Carmelo Anthony to 15.0 points per game on 31.4 percent shooting in 2009-10.\u00a0 Nowitzki has begun the 2010-11 season shooting 69 percent from the field through three games.\u00a0 As a team, Dallas has shot 56.4 percent from the floor in the opening quarter so far in 2010-11.\u00a0 Head coach Rick Carlisle has used the same starting lineup in all three regular season games thus far after using 18 different lineups last year.<\/p>\n

Denver has just two players taller than 6-foot-9 on its active roster and that could play a big role in the result of this contest.\u00a0 The Nuggets have outrebounded all three opponents this season and are coming off a 107-94 win at Houston on Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cDallas is going to play some zone against us, so we\u2019re probably going to have to tune up our zone offense a little bit,\u201d said head coach George Karl.\u00a0 Forward Al Harrington scored a team-high 28 points versus the Rockets after averaging just 10.5 in the first two games of the season.\u00a0 Many believe his slow start was attributed to missing the final seven preseason games with a foot injury.\u00a0 The squad is 4-1 ATS in its last five games as a favorite.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are still led by the offensive talents of Carmelo Anthony, who tallied 24 points at Houston, scoring 20-plus points in each of the first three games this season.\u00a0 Karl still believes his team can be a \u201cpremier team\u201d in the Western Conference with Anthony around all season.\u00a0 \u201cEverybody wants to talk about the negativity,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a strengthening that comes from tough times.\u201d\u00a0 Denver has won seven of the last 10 meetings with the Mavericks since the 2007-08 season.<\/p>\n

Bettors will certainly note that the Mavericks are 0-3-1 ATS in their last four games as a road underdog of 0.5-to-4.5 points, while the Nuggets are 4-18-4 in their last 26 games following an ATS win.<\/p>\n

The action on the hardcourt has just started and NBA game picks are available daily at Maddux Sports!\u00a0 Current the NBA experts are on a 7-0 run with their NBA picks and expect another big winning card tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Denver Nuggets Wednesday, 11\/3\/10, 9:000 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 206 Current Total:\u00a0 206 Dallas is coming off a dominating 99-83 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers in its first road game of the 2010-11 season.\u00a0 The Mavericks\u2019 size is causing major problems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3306,49,3564,19,526,20,3636,3684],"class_list":["post-10208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-al-harrington","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-caron-butler","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-george-karl","tag-rick-carlisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208","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=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10215,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions\/10215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}