{"id":12243,"date":"2011-01-06T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2011-01-06T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:14:32","slug":"battle-at-arco-arena-denver-nuggets-at-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/battle-at-arco-arena-denver-nuggets-at-sacramento-kings-12243\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle at Arco Arena: Denver Nuggets at Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets at Sacramento Kings
\nJanuary 6th, 2011 at 10:30 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Denver -5.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Denver -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 208
\nCurrent Total 207
\nOpening Moneyline: Denver -200 \/ Sacramento +170
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Denver -200 \/ Sacramento +170<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cousins has got his act together the last three games and is going for 20+ ppg and 10+ rpg in those games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sacramento is playing typical Sacramento ball with the worst record in the entire league at 7-25.\u00a0 They aren’t even respectable at home (5-15), but Denver is on the second leg of a back to back and Sacramento is rested.\u00a0 DeMarcus Cousins has been coming up huge lately, going for 20 or more in 3 of his past 4 games including 52 over the last 2, 26.0 ppg for the two games.\u00a0 He’s been getting boards, too (23 in his past 3 games).\u00a0 He’s still turning the ball over too much with 2.3 turnovers per game, but rookies often make rookie mistakes, and he’s certainly no exception to the rule.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, despite their clearly being a better team, the Nuggets have dropped their last three to the Kings at Arco Arena.\u00a0 Denver just did drop a game to the lowly Clippers, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t good at either end of the court,\u201d coach George Karl said. \u201cMost nights this year we\u2019ve had something going and tonight our defense wasn\u2019t good enough and our offense wasn\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kings last loss wasn’t due to shortcomings on offense.\u00a0 They scored fine, but gave up 51% field goal shooting to the Hawks.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Denver has won 4 of their last 5 and are 1-4 in their last 5 road games.\u00a0 They have won 9 of the last 13 in Sacramento, but have dropped the last 3 there.\u00a0 They are 2-3-1 ATS in their last 6 against the Kings and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of the last 9 meetings between the teams.\u00a0 Denver is 5-10-2 ATS in their last 17 games in Sacramento. Denver has averaged a 10.5 point average win margin over the last two victories over Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Sacramento has won only 3 of their last 21 games and they are 2-6-1 ATS in their last 9 games.\u00a0 They are 2-5-1 ATS in their last 8 home games and the total has gone OVER in 4 of the last 5 home games against Denver.\u00a0\u00a0 Sacramento is 2-3-2 ATS in thier last 7 home games against the Nuggets.<\/p>\n

Premier Matchup:\u00a0 DeMarcus Cousins vs Nene Hilario<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nene is one of the best defenders in the league but Cousins is finally starting to show how talented he is and what made so many GMs try to trade up to draft him, not the least of whom was Joe Dumars, who has a good track record of assembling teams (till his recent mistake big signings of Villanueva and Ben Gordon).\u00a0 Nene does have the strength to body up Cousins and keep him from getting set up too deep in the post, but Cousins has some nice moves to utilize as well.\u00a0 While Tyreke Evans may be the Kings’ best player, perhaps even indisputably, it is Cousins that has the potential to help the Kings cover the spread set by Nene is one of the best defenders in the league but Cousins is finally starting to show how talented he is and what made so many GMs try to trade up to draft him, not the least of whom was Joe Dumars, who has a good track record of assembling teams (till his recent mistake big signings of Villanueva and Ben Gordon).\u00a0 Nene does have the strength to body up Cousins and keep him from getting set up too deep in the post, but Cousins has some nice moves to utilize as well.\u00a0 While Tyreke Evans may be the Kings’ best player, perhaps even indisputably, it is Cousins that has the potential to help the Kings cover the spread set by NBA oddsmakers for tonight’s game.<\/p>\n

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Denver Nuggets at Sacramento Kings January 6th, 2011 at 10:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Denver -5.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Denver -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 208 Current Total 207 Opening Moneyline: Denver -200 \/ Sacramento +170 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Denver -200 \/ Sacramento +170 Sacramento is playing typical Sacramento ball with the worst record in the entire league at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1912,526,582],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-sacramento-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","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=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12245,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/12245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}