{"id":10522,"date":"2010-11-12T00:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T05:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10522"},"modified":"2010-11-12T00:11:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T05:11:33","slug":"nba-handicapping-picks-utah-jazz-at-atlanta-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-handicapping-picks-utah-jazz-at-atlanta-hawks-10522\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Handicapping Picks: Utah Jazz at Atlanta Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Atlanta Hawks
\nFriday, 11\/12\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Atlanta -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Atlanta -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 201
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 200.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz have overcome major deficits on its current road trip against the Eastern Conference heading into Atlanta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utah may be living on borrowed time in this contest after picking up three straight wins by overcoming big deficits when heading into Atlanta on Friday night.\u00a0 \u201cIt says we have a lot of fight in us, but we can\u2019t keep relying on getting down and coming back, especially on the road,\u201d said point guard Deron Williams.\u00a0 \u201cIt happened to us two nights in a row, but consider us lucky.\u201d\u00a0 With three consecutive comebacks against the Los Angeles Clippers, Miami Heat and Orlando Magic of 18 points or more, the Jazz became the first team in the shot clock era to win three consecutive games after trailing by at least 10 points at the half.\u00a0 The Jazz are 3-0 versus the Eastern Conference this season and hold a 47-39 all-time edge against the Hawks, including a 31-12 record at home and 16-27 mark on the road.\u00a0 The team is 7-14 ATS as a road underdog of 3.5 to six points and the NBA lines page finds them getting four currently.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are still being led by star point guard Deron Williams, who is averaging 27.0 points and 11.7 assists during the comeback wins, but the emergence of forward Paul Millsap has many experts talking.\u00a0 Millsap is averaging 23.9 points, 10.1 rebounds this season, while shooting an incredible 61.4 percent from the floor.\u00a0 \u201cWe got a lot of weapons on this team and that\u2019s hat we rely on is different guys on different nights,\u201d said Williams.\u00a0 The team will finish a four-games-in-five-nights Eastern Conference road trip with tonight\u2019s game and Saturday night in Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is still trying to figure out what happened in its 108-91 home loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s hard to explain what happened,\u201d said Al Horford.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened.\u00a0 The Hawks led by 13 points early, but then endured a 35-6 run by the Bucks reserves before halftime.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t take a step back,\u201d said guard Joe Johnson.\u00a0 The team started the season with six wins and now has dropped three straight games.\u00a0 Forward Marvin Williams\u2019 injury has really caused the team to lose momentum, having to move Al Horford from center and starting Jason Collins in the middle.\u00a0 Atlanta is 0-4 ATS at home this season.<\/p>\n

The Hawks new motion offense that was installed by head coach Larry Drew has the team leading the league in field goal percentage at 49.8 percent shooting, while ranking 11th in scoring.\u00a0 Atlanta swept Utah last year, 2-0, in the season series for the first time since the 1992-93 campaign, including a 96-83 win at the Philips Arena.\u00a0 Overall, the team has a three-game winning streak over the Jazz and has also captured three games in a row at tonight\u2019s venue.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Jazz are 0-4 ATS as a road underdog of 0.5 to 4.5 points, while the Hawks are 4-9 ATS in their last 13 games overall.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on NBA expert picks with a full night of hardcourt action on the card for Friday night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Atlanta Hawks Friday, 11\/12\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Atlanta -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Atlanta -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 201 Current Total:\u00a0 200.5 Utah may be living on borrowed time in this contest after picking up three straight wins by overcoming big deficits when heading into Atlanta on Friday night.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3277,834,2895,3622,2897,3738,3824,3784,3823,838],"class_list":["post-10522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-al-horford","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-deron-williams","tag-eastern-conference","tag-joe-johnson","tag-larry-drew","tag-marvin-williams","tag-paul-millsap","tag-phillips-arena","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522","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=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10523,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions\/10523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}