{"id":11118,"date":"2010-11-30T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11118"},"modified":"2010-11-30T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:37:20","slug":"free-nba-picks-san-antonio-spurs-at-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/free-nba-picks-san-antonio-spurs-at-golden-state-warriors-11118\/","title":{"rendered":"Free NBA Picks: San Antonio Spurs At Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs AT Golden State Warriors
\nTuesday, November 30th 10:35 EST
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -4.5
\nCurrent total: 215
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 San Ant. -180 \/ G.S.W. +160<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tim Duncan is averaging only 14 ppg, well under his career average<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Antonio has been off to a red hot start this season, sporting a 14-2 record and have won 9 of their last 10 games.\u00a0 They are an undefeated 7-0 on the road this year.\u00a0 Golden State got off to a hot start but has cooled since.\u00a0 They are now 8-9, but have won only 3 of their last 10 games.\u00a0 Their record still remains good at home though, 5-2.<\/p>\n

Last game for San Antonio, they managed to take out the Hornets in New Orleans, winning 109-95.\u00a0 Ginobili, 33, is having a career year.\u00a0\u00a0 His scoring average is up 6 points higher than his career average and he has scored 23 or more in his last four games.\u00a0 In those games he is shooting 49.3% from the floor and 42% from behind the arc.\u00a0 Tonight he will be guarded by Monta Ellis and the game will be fast paced; look for Ginobili to have a huge night.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in the last five games for San Antonio.\u00a0 The Spurs come into the game averaging 107.2 pts against the 98.9 of their opponents, the largest win margin in the league.\u00a0 Golden State, meanwhile, is averaging 101.6 while giving up 105.8.\u00a0 Tonight promises to be a high scoring game, as evidenced by the 215 total.\u00a0 San Antonio is 5-1-1 ATS in its last 7 games on the road, as well; while Golden State is 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games.\u00a0 They are also 2-3-1 ATS in their last 6 games at home against the Spurs.<\/p>\n

Some key matchups for tonight’s game:<\/p>\n

Manu Ginobili vs. Monta Ellis<\/p>\n

As mentioned already, Ginobili has been on fire, but so has Monta Ellis.\u00a0 Ellis is averaging 24.9 ppg and his field goal percentage is slightly higher than his career average.\u00a0 He’s already had two 40+ point games.\u00a0 Ginobili has the ability to slow Ellis, but we can expect both of them to have relatively huge games.\u00a0 Last game against the Spurs on December 16th 2009, Ellis went for 35, on 16 of 31 from the floor…and the game before that one against the Spurs he went for 42.\u00a0 So it goes without saying that we can expect Ellis to score 30+ tonight.<\/p>\n

David Lee vs. Tim Duncan<\/p>\n

Youth vs Experience.\u00a0 Lee made his first all star team last year, while Duncan has been making all star teams over the last decade.\u00a0 Their style of play is not at all similar, but both are very effective.\u00a0 Lee utilizes his speed over defending big men and scores a lot simply by beating them down the court.\u00a0 Duncan, of course, relies on guile and skill for his scoring as his athleticism is all but gone at this stage in his career.\u00a0 Lee is not a particularly good one-on-one defender, but Duncan is having the worst year of his 14 year NBA career and is averaging under 30 minutes a game for the first time in his career, allowing him to score only 14 a game.\u00a0 David Lee’s scoring is down big time over last year, from 20.3 to 13.8.\u00a0 A lot of people expected Ellis and Curry’s scoring to go down with the addition of Lee, but instead it has been Lee that has suffered the loss.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game will be a high scoring affair and the outcome will be heavily determined by the play of the back courts (Parker & Ginobili vs Steph Curry & Ellis).\u00a0 San Antonio is probable to cover the spread, but Golden State has remained tough at Oracle Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs AT Golden State Warriors Tuesday, November 30th 10:35 EST Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -4.5 Current total: 215 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 San Ant. -180 \/ G.S.W. +160 San Antonio has been off to a red hot start this season, sporting a 14-2 record and have won 9 of their last 10 games.\u00a0 They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1011,141],"class_list":["post-11118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11120,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118\/revisions\/11120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}