{"id":10952,"date":"2010-11-24T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10952"},"modified":"2010-11-24T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:03:03","slug":"nba-betting-preview-new-orleans-hornets-vs-utah-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-preview-new-orleans-hornets-vs-utah-jazz-10952\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Preview: New Orleans Hornets vs Utah Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Hornets at Utah Jazz
\nWednesday, 11\/24\/2010, 9:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Utah -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Utah -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 192.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 191.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Utah -160 \/ New Orleans +140<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Utah point guard Deron Williams must break out of his shooting slump to give his team a chance of beating the Chris Paul led Hornets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans dropped an inexcusable 99-95 contest on the road to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night in a game that star point guard Chris Paul saw coming.\u00a0 \u201cFor the past three or four games, we\u2019ve just been getting by,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cThey say winning cures all.\u00a0 But hopefully, with this loss, we\u2019ll get back to paying attention to what we\u2019ve got to do as a unit defensively.\u201d\u00a0 The Hornets had a 14-game winning streak against the Clippers snapped, which was the longest current streak against any one opponent in the NBA.\u00a0 The team has won three in a row heading into the Staples Center, but those victories came by a combined 13 points.\u00a0 New Orleans is 4-0 ATS as an underdog this year and the NBA lines page has them getting points tonight.<\/p>\n

The Hornets defense allowed the Clippers to shoot 50.7 percent from the floor, matching the only other time an opponent has shot 50 percent against them.\u00a0 The Mavericks shot 50.7 percent in a 99-97 loss to the Hornets on November 17.\u00a0 New Orleans lost its three meetings with Utah last season, but Paul miss all of the defeats due to injury.\u00a0 The team will emphasize getting back to its defensive ways in playing the third game of a four-game West Coast road trip.\u00a0 Guard Jarrett Jack will be playing in his second game since being acquired in a trade with Toronto, as he scored 12 points in 16 minutes of action on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Utah comes in with a solid 10-5 record and 4-5 mark against Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Point guard Deron Williams must improve upon his recent play in order to tally a victory tonight, scoring a season-low 12 points in each of the last two games, going 7-for-27 from the field.\u00a0 The Jazz bench has bailed him out with their recent play, scoring 35.5 a game over that span.\u00a0 \u201cThey have been instrumental in a lot of our wins,\u201d Williams said.\u00a0 \u201cThey have come together.\u201d\u00a0 The All-Star guard averaged 19.3 points and 12 assists in the series against New Orleans last year.\u00a0 Utah is 9-5 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 6 points the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are coming off a 94-83 home victory over the Sacramento Kings, coasting to victory after leading by as many as 25 points early in the fourth quarter.\u00a0 \u201cI thought our second group came in and gave us some life,\u201d said head coach Jerry Sloan.\u00a0 \u201cWe had a difficult time getting going.\u201d\u00a0 He has also voiced his concerns about the team\u2019s ability to rebound, especially after the Kings grabbed 11 more boards on Monday night, with the Jazz losing the battle on the glass in six straight games. Utah is 37-19 all-time against the Hornets with a 21-7 record at home.\u00a0 The squad has won 12 of the past 14 meetings.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Hornets are 9-19 ATS versus the Northwest Division, while the Jazz are 0-6 ATS in their last six home games versus a team with a winning road record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Hornets at Utah Jazz Wednesday, 11\/24\/2010, 9:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Utah -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Utah -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 192.5 Current Total:\u00a0 191.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Utah -160 \/ New Orleans +140 New Orleans dropped an inexcusable 99-95 contest on the road to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[837,2895,3635,836,838,3693],"class_list":["post-10952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chris-paul","tag-deron-williams","tag-jerry-sloan","tag-new-orleans-hornets","tag-utah-jazz","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952","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=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10953,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions\/10953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}