{"id":12483,"date":"2011-01-14T18:52:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2011-01-14T18:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:52:32","slug":"nba-picks-ats-new-orleans-hornets-at-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-ats-new-orleans-hornets-at-houston-rockets-12483\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks ATS: New Orleans Hornets at Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"
New Orleans Hornets AT Houston Rockets<\/strong><\/div>\n
Jan 14, 2011 at 8:30 PM EST<\/strong><\/div>\n
Opening Line: \u00a0Houston -1<\/strong><\/div>\n
Current Line: \u00a0Houston -2<\/strong><\/div>\n
Opening Total: 196<\/strong><\/div>\n
Current Total: 197<\/strong><\/div>\n
Opening Moneyline: \u00a0Houston -125 \/ New Orleans +105<\/strong><\/div>\n
Current Moneyline: \u00a0Houston -130 \/ New Orleans +110<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Chris Paul and the Hornets are slight underdogs tonight against Kevin Martin and the Rockets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans has taken a while to rediscover what made them such a potent threat at the beginning of the season, but they seemed to have figured it out now. \u00a0Defense! \u00a0For all the problems that a team can have scoring, it sure gets a lot easier to win when you hold your last two opponents to under 40% shooting from the field. \u00a0The result for New Orleans has been a two game win streak that they will look to extend tonight at the Toyota Center against the Houston Rockets. \u00a0Houston has won just 3 of their last 10 games, but they should be getting their leading scorer Kevin Martin back from injury tonight, which will greatly increase their chances of winning, given the fact that he accounts for nearly 20% of their offensive output.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tonight’s game will feature two distinctly different styles of play. \u00a0New Orleans is a slow half court grind team, that focuses on execution and defense. \u00a0Houston is a run and gun team. \u00a0The total should be an interesting one as NBA oddsmakers have set it under 200 at an opening line of 196.<\/div>\n
Some betting trends:<\/div>\n
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The total has gone UNDER in 17 of New Orleans’ last 23 games. \u00a0They are 5-2 SU in their last 7. \u00a0The total has gone UNDER in 12 of their last 15 on the road and they are 3-8 SU in their last 11 road games. \u00a0They are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games against Houston and the total has gone UNDER in 8 of the last 10 games against the Rockets. \u00a0The total has gone UNDER in 8 of their last 12 games when playing on the road against the Rockets. \u00a0New Orleans is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games against the Rockets. \u00a0New Orleans is 2-4 ATS in their last 6 against the Rockets.<\/div>\n
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Houston is 1-6 SU in their last 7 games. \u00a0They are 1-7-2 ATS in their last 10 games \u00a0and the total hasgone OVER in 4 of their last 6 games. \u00a0They are 9-4 SU in their last 13 games at home and 0-4-1 ATS in their last 5 games at home. \u00a0The total has gone OVER In 4 of their last 5 at home and they are 1-4 SU in their last 5 home games. \u00a0They are also 1-4 SU in their last 5 against the Hornets. \u00a0They are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 against the Hornets.<\/div>\n
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Key Matchups:<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Aaron Brooks & Kyle Lowry vs. Chris Paul<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Brooks and Lowry are currently in a time share situation at the point and both are playing very effectively. \u00a0They will both have their problems covering Paul though, whose skill and determination make him a very tough cover at point guard. \u00a0Paul doesn’t have a size and strength advantage against them, nor does he have a quickness advantage; he’s just better. \u00a0Lowry is a better defender than Brooks so he may see more minutes tonight, but don’t be surprised to see them in the backcourt together. \u00a0At times they have formed a diminutive but effective duo in the backcourt.<\/div>\n

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Luis Scola vs. David West<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Scola and West are both key scorers for their teams and both play similar games. \u00a0They rely on a lot of baseline jumpers and jumpshots in general to score, but Scola can bang inside a little better than West and is a better rebounder because of it. \u00a0West is not having the all star caliber season he did three years ago but he is still very effective and shoots a high percentage from the field (51.2%). \u00a0These two will probably more or less neutralize one another given their similar skill sets and similar statistics.<\/div>\n
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Houston is slightly favored by NBA oddsmakers for tonight’s contest, and mostly because they are at home. \u00a0They are 10-8 at home and New Orleans is 8-11 on the road. \u00a0It promises to be a close game and the total should be interesting to see, as I already mentioned their conflicting styles of play.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Hornets AT Houston Rockets Jan 14, 2011 at 8:30 PM EST Opening Line: \u00a0Houston -1 Current Line: \u00a0Houston -2 Opening Total: 196 Current Total: 197 Opening Moneyline: \u00a0Houston -125 \/ New Orleans +105 Current Moneyline: \u00a0Houston -130 \/ New Orleans +110 New Orleans has taken a while to rediscover what made them such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[837,831,836],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chris-paul","tag-houston-rockets","tag-new-orleans-hornets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","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=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions\/12484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}