{"id":11520,"date":"2010-12-14T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11520"},"modified":"2010-12-14T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T03:30:17","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-at-san-antonio-spurs-pro-basketball-expert-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/milwaukee-bucks-at-san-antonio-spurs-pro-basketball-expert-predictions-11520\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks at San Antonio Spurs Pro Basketball Expert Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Bucks at San Antonio Spurs
\nWednesday, 12\/15\/10, 8:30 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -9
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 190
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 190<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Antonio Spurs are off to the fastest 23-game start in franchise history and host the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Milwaukee ended Dallas\u2019 12-game winning streak with a 103-99 road victory on Monday and now looks to ruin San Antonio\u2019s chance for a perfect homestand.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re starting to play better basketball,\u201d said center Andrew Bogut.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re starting to buy into what the coaches want us to do, what we need to do to win games.\u201d\u00a0 The Bucks win against the Mavericks was surprising due to the franchise\u2019s last win in Dallas coming on December 30, 2002.\u00a0 The team has won three-straight games and four of its last five contest, holding four of the five under their season averages for scoring.\u00a0 Milwaukee is allowing just 93.2 points per game this season and the defensive unit will be tested against the fourth-highest scoring team in the league tonight.\u00a0 The squad is 2-8-1 ATS versus the Western Conference and a underdog on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Bucks may have victories in four of their last five games, but the team is outscoring foes by just 2.6 points a game over that span.\u00a0 Milwaukee is also an even 2-2 against Southwest Division opponents during the 2010-11 campaign, picking up victories in the last two contests.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the entire month will be a test for this Eastern Conference up-and-comer, with 11 of their 13 opponents this month featuring a .500 or better record.\u00a0 Tonight\u2019s game is the second in a five-game span against teams that have a combined record of 86-36.<\/p>\n

San Antonio is starting to show its old self on defense and picked up a 95-78 win over the Portland Trail Blazers in its last contest.\u00a0 \u201cSunday was a good performance defensively,\u201d said coach Gregg Popovich.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s something to enjoy, but we have a ways to go.\u201d\u00a0 The Spurs also extended its win streak to five games with the victory, with the last four coming by double digits.\u00a0 The team is 12-2 overall at home this season, including a perfect 6-0 mark at home.\u00a0 San Antonio is 15-7 ATS overall this season and 3-0 ATS versus Central division opponents.<\/p>\n

The Spurs own the all-time edge over the Bucks, 37-35 after winning the last two meetings.\u00a0 San Antonio swept the series last season, collecting a 112-98 victory at home and a 112-97 decision in Milwaukee.\u00a0 For the series during the 2009-10 campaign, forward Tim Duncan averaged 25.0 points and 11.0 rebounds, but he will likely not reach those marks on Wednesday night.\u00a0 The perennial All-Star is averaging a career-low 28.7 minutes, but that has been planned to keep him fresh for the playoffs.\u00a0 San Antonio\u2019s 20-3 record through the first 23 games of the season is the best 23-game start in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Bucks are 17-7 ATS as a road underdog, while the Spurs are 12-3-1 ATS versus the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Bucks at San Antonio Spurs Wednesday, 12\/15\/10, 8:30 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -9 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 190 Current Total:\u00a0 190 Milwaukee ended Dallas\u2019 12-game winning streak with a 103-99 road victory on Monday and now looks to ruin San Antonio\u2019s chance for a perfect homestand.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[662,3622,3940,663,141,3350,3693],"class_list":["post-11520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-andrew-bogut","tag-eastern-conference","tag-gregg-popovich","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520","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=11520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11521,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions\/11521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}