{"id":10778,"date":"2010-11-19T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2010-11-19T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:51:05","slug":"chicago-bulls-at-dallas-mavericks-pro-basketball-handicapping-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/chicago-bulls-at-dallas-mavericks-pro-basketball-handicapping-preview-10778\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls at Dallas Mavericks Pro Basketball Handicapping Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls at Dallas Mavericks
\nFriday, 11\/19\/10, 9:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 195
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 195<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Dallas Mavericks are five-point home favorites over the visiting Chicago Bulls at the American Airlines Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago was unable to extend its winning streak to five games after giving up 37 points in the third quarter in a 103-94 road loss to the San Antonio Spurs.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know if it was fatigue,\u201d said point guard Derrick Rose.\u00a0 \u201cThe good thing about the NBA is you play again in a few days.\u00a0 We still feel good about ourselves.\u00a0 Hopefully we learn from this and go out there and win the game against Dallas.\u201d\u00a0 Rose has scored 33 points in consecutive games and has shot 59 percent from the field over his last 11 quarters.\u00a0 The Bulls are not likely to turn things around in tonight\u2019s venue, dropping five straight and 12 of 13 in Dallas.\u00a0 The team was swept by the Mavericks in 2009-10 and has dropped 21 of the last 24 matchups overall.\u00a0 Chicago is 13-7 ATS as a road underdog of 3.5 to 6 points and the NBA lines page is available for the most up-to-date number.<\/p>\n

The Bulls trail the all-time series with the Mavericks 28-31 and the last time they picked up a victory in Dallas was on February 8, 2005.\u00a0 Chicago\u2019s most important statistic in winning games this year is holding opponents to under 100 points, currently possessing a 6-0 mark when doing so.\u00a0 During their recent four-game winning streak, the squad limited opponents to just 92.5 points per game before the Spurs went over the magical number.\u00a0 Offensively, the team needs to get more production out of forward Taj Gibson, who started the road trip among the league leaders in field goal percentage, only to hit one of 16 shots in the first two games.<\/p>\n

Dallas also had a four-game winning streak snapped by dropping a 99-97 contest to the New Orleans Hornets.\u00a0 \u201cOur undoing was the third quarter, when we were dominated,\u201d said head coach Rick Carlisle.\u00a0 \u201cWe fought back, but you can\u2019t have a quarter where you get beat by 16 on the road and expect to walk out of here with a win.\u201d\u00a0 Despite the loss, the team is excited about the return of forward Caron Butler to the lineup, scoring five points and dishing out two assists after missing three straight games with back spasms.\u00a0 He averaged 26.0 points in three games, including one with Washington against the Bulls last year.\u00a0 Dallas is 57-67 ATS as a favorite over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have a perfect 3-0 mark against the Eastern Conference this year and each of those games has taken place at the American Airlines Center.\u00a0 Dallas is scoring 97.3 points per game while holding opponents to 92.6 a night, while the Bulls are a high-flying unit in putting up 102.9 a contest.\u00a0 The squad will be playing their first back-to-back in the next two games and posted a 15-5 mark in the first game and a 12-8 record in the second game during the 2009-10 campaign.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Bulls are 12-3 ATS after a SU loss, while the Mavericks are 7-2-1 ATS as a favorite of 5 to 10.5 points.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on all the great action tonight and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports provide you cash for a great football weekend ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls at Dallas Mavericks Friday, 11\/19\/10, 9:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 195 Current Total:\u00a0 195 Chicago was unable to extend its winning streak to five games after giving up 37 points in the third quarter in a 103-94 road loss to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3920,174,19,521,3622,3684,3921],"class_list":["post-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-american-airlines-center","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-derrick-rose","tag-eastern-conference","tag-rick-carlisle","tag-taj-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","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=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10780,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/10780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}