{"id":10959,"date":"2010-11-24T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2010-11-24T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T01:09:15","slug":"washington-wizards-at-atlanta-hawks-nba-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/washington-wizards-at-atlanta-hawks-nba-betting-predictions-10959\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards at Atlanta Hawks NBA Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Wizards at Atlanta Hawks
\nThursday, 11\/25\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Atlanta -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Atlanta -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 196
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Atlanta Hawks have come down to Earth since starting the season with a 6-0 record<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Washington has split its last six games and is looking to win back-to-back games for the first time after grabbing a 116-114 overtime win over Philadelphia on Tuesday.\u00a0 The Wizards overcome a 17-point deficit and used a wide-open Nick Young 3-pointer to sink the Sixers.\u00a0 \u201cThat game was really pulling teeth,\u201d said guard Gilbert Arenas.\u00a0 \u201cWe didn\u2019t come out and play well.\u00a0 It was one of those roller-coaster games.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 3-8 versus the Eastern Conference this year, dropping all six games away from the nation\u2019s capitol.\u00a0 Washington has always fared poorly on the West Coast, so the squad must focus on picking up its first road game rather quickly.\u00a0 Washington is 5-5 ATS as an underdog this year and the NBA lines page has them getting a good amount of points this Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

The Wizards are meeting the Hawks for the second of four meetings this season after falling 99-95 in the first meeting at the Philips Arena on October 30th.\u00a0 Washington point guard John Wall led all scorers with 28 points and also had a game-high nine assists in the contest, with him scoring 22 of his points in the second half.\u00a0 He returned to the lineup in Tuesday\u2019s victory after missing the previous four games with a sprained left foot, coming off the bench to finish with 25 points on 7 of 15 shooting.\u00a0 Young has really raised his level of play over the last six games off the bench, averaging 15.5 points to boost his season average to 10.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Atlanta opened the season with a 6-0 record and now sits just a game above .500 through 15 games, dropping a 107-101 overtime game at New Jersey last time out.\u00a0 \u201cWe just have to keep working,\u201d said head coach Larry Drew.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t feel sorry for ourselves.\u201d\u00a0 This is an important game for this club when considering it hits the road again with trips to New York and Toronto over the weekend.\u00a0 The Hawks lead the all-time series 136-132, including an 85-42 home record.\u00a0 Atlanta is 3-10 ATS as a favorite this season and 68-62 ATS in this role over the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Hawks were led by guard Joe Johnson in the first meeting this season, but his scoring average has dropped off from a 21.3 scoring average last year to its current standing of 17.5 in 2010-11.\u00a0 He has been especially hard up to provide a scoring lift over the last four games, being held to 11.0 points per game and shooting 29.6 percent.\u00a0 Through 15 games, Atlanta is second in the league as a team in field goal percentage and fifth from the charity stripe.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Wizards are 2-7 ATS versus the Eastern Conference, while the Hawks are 3-10 ATS in the same situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington Wizards at Atlanta Hawks Thursday, 11\/25\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Atlanta -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Atlanta -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 196 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Washington has split its last six games and is looking to win back-to-back games for the first time after grabbing a 116-114 overtime win over Philadelphia on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[834,3622,2897,843,3738,3967,644],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-eastern-conference","tag-joe-johnson","tag-john-wall","tag-larry-drew","tag-philips-arena","tag-washington-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959","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=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10960,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions\/10960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}