{"id":11643,"date":"2010-12-18T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2010-12-18T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T09:18:09","slug":"nba-picks-ats-utah-jazz-at-milwaukee-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-ats-utah-jazz-at-milwaukee-bucks-11643\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks ATS: Utah Jazz at Milwaukee Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Milwaukee Bucks
\nDecember 18th, 2010 at 8:35 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Milwaukee -1
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Milwaukee -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 189
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 189
\nMoneyline:\u00a0 Undefined at time of Issue <\/strong>(4:01 AM)<\/p>\n

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Deron Williams will face second year point guard Brandon Jennings tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utah will be playing on the second night of a back to back, following a devestating 100-71 loss last night in New Orleans.\u00a0 Utah has lost 3 of their last 5 games, but did beat Orlando badly at home during that stretch on Friday the 10th.\u00a0 Utah has been solid on the road and have a 7-4 road record.\u00a0 Milwaukee (10-14) isn’t overwhelming at home by any means, though, and are an unintimidating 7-5 in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has been starting to get their act together and had won three in a row before dropping Wednesday night by 2 points to the league leading San Antonio Spurs.\u00a0 Before that, they were responsible for ending Dallas’ 12 game winning streak.<\/p>\n

Utah boasts a +2.8 point differential, scoring 100.2 and giving up 97.4 points per game.\u00a0 Milwaukee is -1.3, scoring 91.9 and giving up 93.1.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:\u00a0 Utah has won 6 of their past 8 road games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of Utah’s last 6 games in Milwaukee.\u00a0 Utah is 10-2 against Milwaukee over the last 12 games.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee is 4-1-1 ATS in their past six games, and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of Milwaukee’s past 6 games.\u00a0 The Bucks are 5-9-1 ATS in the last 15 games.\u00a0 Milwaukee is 3-14 ATS in their past 17 games against Utah.<\/p>\n

Some key matchups for tonight’s game:
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\nDeron Williams vs. Brandon Jennings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both Jennings and Jennings have different “poisons” for opposing guards.\u00a0 Deron Williams does it with strength, deliberate movement of his upper body, good outside shooting and hesitation dribbles; Jennings does his work off the dribble, is very quick, slithers his way through defenses rather than overpowering them.\u00a0 Both seek to run a lot of pick and rolls with their respective power forwards and centers.\u00a0 Deron Williams will run pick and roll or pick and pops with both Millsap and Al Jefferson, while Jennings will run most of his pick and rolls with all star center Andrew Bogut, who will be the discussion of the next matchup.<\/p>\n

Al Jefferson vs. Andrew Bogut<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bogut has claimed that he is still “not 100%” with regards to his injured elbow that he rehabbed all off season.\u00a0 Al Jefferson has the bulk and body to give Bogut a game, when Bogut overpowers most of the centers in the league not named Dwight Howard, Andrew Bynum, Brook Lopez, or Kendrick Perkins.\u00a0 Jefferson has returned to form this year and is helping Deron Williams have the best season of his NBA career.\u00a0 He will get a lot of easy looks from Deron finding him near the basket and is excellent at cleaning up on the boards as well.<\/p>\n

This should be a close game as NBA oddsmakers predict, setting the spread at 1 point.\u00a0 It can easily go in Utah’s favor if they are able to keep their offense flowing freely and keep the game a little faster in pace than Milwaukee would prefer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Milwaukee Bucks December 18th, 2010 at 8:35 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Milwaukee -1 Current Line:\u00a0 Milwaukee -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 189 Current Total:\u00a0 189 Moneyline:\u00a0 Undefined at time of Issue (4:01 AM) Utah will be playing on the second night of a back to back, following a devestating 100-71 loss last night in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[676,662,274,2895,663,838],"class_list":["post-11643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-al-jefferson","tag-andrew-bogut","tag-brandon-jennings","tag-deron-williams","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643","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=11643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11645,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643\/revisions\/11645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}