{"id":12475,"date":"2011-01-14T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2011-01-14T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:00:02","slug":"nba-expert-picks-dallas-mavericks-vs-san-antonio-spurs-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-expert-picks-dallas-mavericks-vs-san-antonio-spurs-betting-predictions-12475\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Expert Picks: Dallas Mavericks vs San Antonio Spurs Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at San Antonio Spurs
\nFriday, 1\/14\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Antonio Spurs host the Dallas Mavericks in an important Western Conference matchup Friday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas is 2-6 since star forward Dirk Nowitzki suffered a sprained knee and dropped a 102-89 contest to Indiana on Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not answering any Dirk questions,\u201d head coach Rick Carlisle stated.\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t have Dirk, so it\u2019s not a topic that\u2019s worth discussion.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got\u00a0 to win with the guys we have.\u201d\u00a0 The Mavericks have won five of the last seven regular season meetings, but had their four-game winning streak in the series snapped in a 99-93 home loss on December 30, 2010.\u00a0 Nowitzki didn\u2019t play in that particular contest and scored a team-high 26 points in the first meeting of the season, a 103-94 win in San Antonio on November 26, 2010.\u00a0 Dallas is a dominating 12-3 ATS on the road this season and the NBA lines page is the best place to watch all of today\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks were in the midst of scoring 100-plus points in 13 of 16 games until Nowitzki suffered the injury, which has caused them to be held under that particular mark in six of eight contests without him.\u00a0 With the loss to Indiana, Dallas recorded three straight losses for the second time this season.\u00a0 The team managed to score just a single point off Indiana\u2019s eight turnovers in the game.\u00a0 \u201cWe couldn\u2019t make shots when we needed it,\u201d said point guard Jason Kidd.\u00a0 \u201cAnd on the other side, we couldn\u2019t get the stops when we needed it.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s been an unfortunate drop off due to injuries for this squad, especially when considering that they finished the 2010 calendar year with the highest winning percentage in the NBA (57-24, .704).<\/p>\n

San Antonio has won four straight and eight of 10 to increase its lead over Dallas to six games.\u00a0 The Spurs are coming off an impressive defensive performance in handing Milwaukee a 91-84 loss, holding them to just 33 second-half points.\u00a0 \u201cA lot of different guys are playing very well on different nights,\u201d said forward Tim Duncan.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s turned into the record that we have now.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not counting on one individual to try to get it done every night.\u201d\u00a0 Head coach Gregg Popovich has shortened the bench rotation to four players until rookie James Anderson returns in February.\u00a0 San Antonio is 23-15 ATS on the season.<\/p>\n

The Spurs hold an 84-62 advantage over the Mavericks in the all-time series and are 47-26 at home.\u00a0 Duncan has paced the squad with 26.5 points and 13.0 rebounds in two games.\u00a0 San Antonio is off to its best 39-game star in franchise history and much of the credit is due to its offensive play.\u00a0 The team\u2019s scoring averaging of 105.1 points is the highest since scoring 106.6 points a night during the 1994-95 season.\u00a0 In addition, their three-point field goal percentage of .397 is near the franchise record (.407).<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in backing the Mavericks due to their 13-6-1 ATS mark in San Antonio, while the Spurs are 4-0 ATS versus teams with a winning road record.<\/p>\n

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Dallas Mavericks at San Antonio Spurs Friday, 1\/14\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Dallas is 2-6 since star forward Dirk Nowitzki suffered a sprained knee and dropped a 102-89 contest to Indiana on Tuesday.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not answering any Dirk questions,\u201d head coach Rick Carlisle stated.\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t have Dirk, so it\u2019s not a topic that\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[19,20,3940,3684,141,3350],"class_list":["post-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-gregg-popovich","tag-rick-carlisle","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","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=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12477,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions\/12477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}