{"id":11750,"date":"2010-12-21T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11750"},"modified":"2010-12-21T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:33:28","slug":"free-expert-nba-picks-philadelphia-76ers-at-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/free-expert-nba-picks-philadelphia-76ers-at-chicago-bulls-11750\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Expert NBA Picks: Philadelphia 76ers at Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers at Chicago Bulls
\nDecember 21st, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Chicago -6
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Chicago -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 190.5
\nCurrent Total: 191.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -275 \/ Philadelphia +235
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -290 \/ Philadelphia +235<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Derrick Rose is averaging 20 a game for his career against the Clippers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Philadelphia comes in hot, having won 8 of their last 11 games, and they won the last one over Orlando by 8.\u00a0 Elton Brand <\/strong>had a big game, with 20 points and 13 boards.<\/p>\n

Chicago just snapped a 7 game win streak in a 1 point loss to the lowly Clippers.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeams are going to try to go big against us, especially when we have our three (Luol Deng<\/strong>) at four,\u201d Rose told the Bulls\u2019 official website. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to know that as a team and all five rebound or give help when they go in the post and go for the rebound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Philadelphia, despite their 11-16 record, has a positive point differential of +0.8; the score 97.0 a game and give up 96.2 per game.\u00a0 Chicago (16-9) has a +3.7 differential, scoring 100.1 per game and giving up 96.1 per game.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Philadelphia’s last 5 games and it has gone UNDER in all 5 of their last 5 road games.\u00a0 They have lost 8 of their last 10 on the road and 4 of their last 5 in Chicago.\u00a0 They are 2-4 ATS in their last 6 against the Bulls and the total has gone OVER in 9 of their last 11 games in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 15 of Chicago’s last 20 games.\u00a0 They have won 7 of their last 7 and 5 of their last 6 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 home games.<\/p>\n

The key matchup for tonight’s game:\u00a0 Jrue Holiday vs. Derrick Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than anything, these are the two key players of both teams, as it is the point guard that makes the team go, so to speak.\u00a0 Rose is having an all star caliber year, averaging 24.3 points per game and 8.4 assists per game, in 38 minutes of action per night.\u00a0 Last game against LAC, he ahd 34 points and 8 assists, but missed the game winning free throws down the stretch.\u00a0 Before the game to Toronto on the 15th, he had scored in double figures in every game this season.\u00a0 In his career against the Clippers he is avearaging 20.3 points per game and 6.1 assists per game, but promises to have a bigger night tonight, as he is having a career year.\u00a0 Holiday is also having a great year, averaging 13.3 points per game and 6.6 assists per game.\u00a0 He has struggled his last two games, however, recording only 11 points and 11 assists total for the two.\u00a0 Prior to that game he had scored in double figures in 6 consecutive games.\u00a0 He’ll have trouble shaking the slump against Derrick Rose, but it’s a necessity if Philly is to have any chance at all of winning tonight’s game.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has been notoriously poor on the road, and despite their good play recently will have their work cut out for them against the Bulls, who have also been hot and will come out focused after their loss to the Clippers.\u00a0 Tonight’s game should be close, but NBA oddsmakers have set the line in Chicago’s favor, which seems reasonable given their 10-3 record at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers at Chicago Bulls December 21st, 2010 at 8:00 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Chicago -6 Current Line:\u00a0 Chicago -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 190.5 Current Total: 191.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -275 \/ Philadelphia +235 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -290 \/ Philadelphia +235 Philadelphia comes in hot, having won 8 of their last 11 games, and they won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[174,247,832],"class_list":["post-11750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-la-clippers","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750","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=11750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11752,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions\/11752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}