{"id":12365,"date":"2011-01-10T19:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2011-01-10T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:23:46","slug":"united-center-showdown-detroit-pistons-at-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/united-center-showdown-detroit-pistons-at-chicago-bulls-12365\/","title":{"rendered":"United Center Showdown: Detroit Pistons at Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Pistons AT Chicago Bulls
\nJanuary 10th, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Chicago -10.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Chicago -10.0
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 189.5
\nCurrent Total: 188
\nOpening Moneyline: Chicago -525 \/ Detroit +425
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -700 \/ Detroit +450<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Boozer went for 31 & 11 last game against the Pistons in an OT win<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago comes into this one as big favorites.\u00a0 They have won 7 of their last 10 games and are currently sitting at the 4 seed in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0 Things aren’t going quite as well for Detroit.\u00a0 While they still have hold over players from their glory days (Rip Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince, and Ben Wallace), they have faded into obscurity and their payroll isn’t friendly either after Dumars boneheadly threw the bank at mediocre free agents Charlie Villanueva and Ben Gordon.\u00a0 The Pistons no longer resemble the defensive minded team they once were and now give up over 100 points a game, while scoring only 95.5 themselves, for a -4.9 point differential on the season.\u00a0 They won’t have it any easier scoring points against the Bulls, a great defensive team that holds opponents to 93.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Despite all this misery in Detroit, second year draftee Austin Daye holds out optimism, however misguided it may be, \u201c(The future) really looks good to me, but hopefully it looks good to (team president Joe Dumars).\u00a0 Joe\u2019s the one who drafted us \u2026 and I bet he\u2019s pleased seeing us out there on the floor at the end of games, making plays.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lot of optimism for sure after one win, one that ended a three game skid.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER In 7 of Detroit’s last 10 games and they are 2-5 SU in their last 7 games.\u00a0 They are 3-6 ATS in their last 9 road games and the total has gone UNDER in 13 of their last 18 on the road.\u00a0 The total has also gone OVER in 4 of their last 6 on the road.\u00a0 They are 1-12 SU in their last 13 road games and 1-12-1 ATS in their last 14 against the Bulls.\u00a0 Detroit is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games against the Bulls and 0-5 SU in their last 5 road games against the Bulls.\u00a0 They are also 0-4-1 ATS in their last 5 games at the United Center.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games and they are 15-4 SU in their last 19 games.\u00a0 They are 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games and the total has gone UNDER in 11 of their last 16 at home.\u00a0 They are 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games and 5-0 SU in their last 5 against the Pistons.\u00a0 They are 12-1-1 ATS in their last 14 against Detroit and 6-0-1 ATS in their last 7 home games against the Pistons.
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\nKey Matchups:<\/strong>
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\nCharlie Villanueva vs. Carlos Boozer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boozer should absolutely murder Villanueva in this matchup.\u00a0 Though Villanueva did have a double double last game against the Bulls (12 pts, 10 rebs), Boozer had an even bigger game with 31 points and 11 rebounds.\u00a0 Villanueva simply has no answer defensively against the premier power forwards in the game, and his offensive output isn’t significant enough to make up the difference.
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\nRodney Stuckey vs. Derrick Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stuckey, like Villanueva, had a good game last time against the Bulls — at least on offense.\u00a0 But much like CV31, he gave up an even better game to his man on defense, as Rose went for 23 pts and 12 asts as Chicago snuck by the Pistons in OT.\u00a0 Stuckey has the size and strength to cover Rose, but Rose finds other ways to beat his man, and often it is getting into the paint to draw fouls and earn trips to the line.\u00a0 In recent games, he has been doing it more and more.\u00a0 In the last two games he has shot 29 free throws.\u00a0 If he keeps that up against the Pistons tonight, the game won’t be close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Detroit Pistons AT Chicago Bulls January 10th, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Chicago -10.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Chicago -10.0 Opening Total:\u00a0 189.5 Current Total: 188 Opening Moneyline: Chicago -525 \/ Detroit +425 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -700 \/ Detroit +450 Chicago comes into this one as big favorites.\u00a0 They have won 7 of their last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[174,521,80],"class_list":["post-12365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-derrick-rose","tag-detroit-pistons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365","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=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12367,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions\/12367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}