{"id":10400,"date":"2010-11-08T22:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T03:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10400"},"modified":"2010-11-08T22:51:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T03:51:37","slug":"nba-handicapping-preview-utah-jazz-at-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-handicapping-preview-utah-jazz-at-miami-heat-10400\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Handicapping Preview: Utah Jazz at Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Miami Heat
\nTuesday, 11\/9\/10, 7:30 PM EST; TV:\u00a0 NBA TV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -10
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 192.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 192<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade has averaged 32.3 points in six career home games against Utah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utah is set to start a four-game road trip after picking up a 109-107 double-overtime win over the Los Angeles Clippers at home on Saturday.\u00a0 One-time All-Star Andrei Kirilenko played a role in the victory, scoring 18 points and hitting a key three-pointer in the fourth quarter and two critical free throws in the second overtime.\u00a0 The team is hoping its a turnaround for its highest-paid player, considering the Jazz are 3-1 when he scores 10 points or more.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m definitely planning to be more aggressive,\u201d Kirilenko stated.\u00a0 Utah has averaged 118.0 points while shooting 44.4 percent from three-point range in its victories, while managing just 86.7 points on 22.5 percent from beyond the arc in losses.\u00a0 The squad is 2-4 ATS this season and 2-0 ATS when playing two two days rest.\u00a0 The NBA lines page has them listed as a double-digit underdog.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are 28-19 all-time against the Heat with a 17-7 record at home and 11-12 mark on the road.\u00a0 Utah has dropped its last seven games played at Miami and must contain guard Dwyane Wade to end the drought.\u00a0 Wade has led the Heat in scoring in 11 of the past 13 meetings.\u00a0 Offensively, the team relies heavily on a guard of its own, with Deron Williams scoring 30 points in Saturday\u2019s win.\u00a0 The All-Star point guard is averaging 22.8 points on 48.6 percent shooting in the last four games after scoring just 30 points combined in the first two.\u00a0 Utah\u2019s rebounding woes continued despite the win against Los Angeles, with the Clippers grabbing 20 more boards.<\/p>\n

Miami opened up a six-game homestand and delivered yet another double-digit victory over the New Jersey Nets.\u00a0 The game marked the first time the \u201csuperstar trio\u201d each managed to score at least 20 points in the same contest.\u00a0 Experts are starting to believe that the team is making great strides in working together as a team.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re starting to get more of a comfort zone,\u201d said Wade.\u00a0 \u201cWe can look at the next seven as hopefully being better than we were in the first seven.\u201d\u00a0 He will play a major part in this contest, scoring 32.3 points in six career home games against Utah.\u00a0 The Heat will also rely upon forward LeBron James, who has scored 33.3 points per game against the Jazz since the 2007-08 season as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers.\u00a0 The team is 4-3 ATS this season and the total is 3-4 Over\/Under in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Heat are outscoring teams by an average of 13.2 points per game and holding opponents to just 40.4 percent shooting from the floor.\u00a0 Miami has been dealing with rebounding issues and an adjustment must be made by forward Chris Bosh specifically.\u00a0 \u201cI think we have to get used to teams missing so much, not to be funny or anything,\u201d he stated.\u00a0 \u201cBut we\u2019re holding teams to a low percentage and that\u2019s a lot of misses.\u201d\u00a0 Ball movement hasn\u2019t been a problem over the past four games, as the team has dished out 98 assists over that span.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Jazz are 21-7-1 ATS in their last 29 games versus the Eastern Conference, while the Heat are 5-0 ATS in the last five meetings in Miami.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on NBA expert picks from the handicapping team at Maddux Sports all season long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Miami Heat Tuesday, 11\/9\/10, 7:30 PM EST; TV:\u00a0 NBA TV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -10 Opening Total:\u00a0 192.5 Current Total:\u00a0 192 Utah is set to start a four-game road trip after picking up a 109-107 double-overtime win over the Los Angeles Clippers at home on Saturday.\u00a0 One-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3739,692,2895,2896,66,707,838],"class_list":["post-10400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-andrei-kirilenko","tag-chris-bosh","tag-deron-williams","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400","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=10400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10401,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions\/10401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}