{"id":11063,"date":"2010-11-29T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T15:02:48","slug":"nba-basketball-new-orleans-hornets-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-basketball-new-orleans-hornets-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder-betting-predictions-11063\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Basketball: New Orleans Hornets vs Oklahoma City Thunder Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Hornets at Oklahoma City Thunder
\nMonday, 11\/29\/10, 8:00 PM EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant was just short on a game-winning shot on Sunday in Houston <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans has dropped three of four games since opening 11-1 for the first time in franchise history and surrendered a season-high 109 points to San Antonio in defeat on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to execute better on defense and push the tempo.\u00a0 That\u2019s my fault,\u201d said point guard Chris Paul.\u00a0 \u201cI pushed it in the first half and I guess I didn\u2019t in the second half and they were able to get their defense set.\u201d\u00a0 It was a frustrating night for the club, building a 61-44 halftime lead, only to see it end up a 109-95 loss.\u00a0 The Spurs outscored the Hornets, 28-16, in the third quarter and 37-18 in the fourth.\u00a0 The Hornets are 5-3 on the road this season and 7-1 at home.\u00a0 New Orleans is 9-6 ATS this year and listed as a slight underdog on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Hornets came into the Spurs game ranking first in the NBA for fewest points allowed, giving up just 91.1 points a contest, after surrendering 102.7 last season.\u00a0 New Orleans will be thrilled to have Paul back in the lineup against tonight\u2019s opponent, as the franchise won 10 consecutive games against the Thunder before he missed two meetings that ended up as losses last year.\u00a0 In order to get back on track, the team must start hitting the glass, getting out-rebounded in consecutive games by a combined margin of 90-61.\u00a0 This has caused the Hornets to shoot 20 shots less than their opponents over that span.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City has dropped two of three games that includes a 99-98 loss at Houston on Sunday night.\u00a0 Going into Sunday\u2019s visit to Houston, the Thunder\u2019s road winning streak had reached five.\u00a0 The franchise hadn\u2019t won six straight away games since 2004-05 when it was still in Seattle.\u00a0 \u201cWe battled back and no one on our team gave up and we had a shot to win,\u201d said coach Scott Brooks.\u00a0 \u201cKevin\u2019s shot was on the line but just a little short.\u00a0 We had a chance to win down the stretch.\u201d\u00a0 Durant was held to 18 points on the night and the club allowed the Rockets to make 10 of 17 three-pointers.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 3-0 ATS when playing on back-to-back days.<\/p>\n

The Thunder now return home with an 11-6 overall record and 5-4 mark at home.\u00a0 Oklahoma City dropped its first game of the season in games decided by seven or fewer points, coming into last night\u2019s game with a perfect 8-0 mark.\u00a0 \u201cSixteen offensive rebounds was hard to overcome and that was tough,\u201d said Brooks.\u00a0 \u201cIt is not normal for us to miss that many free throws.\u201d\u00a0 The team is scheduled to play 16 back-to-backs over the course of the season and has a current record of 1-2 on the first night and 3-0 on the second night.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Hornets are 1-6-1 ATS in their last eight games overall, while the Thunder are 2-6 ATS in their last eight home games.<\/p>\n

The NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports are off to a flying start and ready to deliver on the hardcourt tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Hornets at Oklahoma City Thunder Monday, 11\/29\/10, 8:00 PM EDT New Orleans has dropped three of four games since opening 11-1 for the first time in franchise history and surrendered a season-high 109 points to San Antonio in defeat on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to execute better on defense and push the tempo.\u00a0 That\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[837,1193,836,399,3862],"class_list":["post-11063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chris-paul","tag-kevin-durant","tag-new-orleans-hornets","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-scott-brooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063","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=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11064,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions\/11064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}