{"id":12601,"date":"2011-01-19T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12601"},"modified":"2011-01-19T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T22:31:07","slug":"nba-expert-picks-philadelphia-76ers-at-orlando-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-expert-picks-philadelphia-76ers-at-orlando-magic-12601\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Expert Picks: Philadelphia 76ers at Orlando Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers AT Orlando Magic
\nJanuary 19th, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Orlando -10
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Orlando -9.5
\nOpening Total: 199
\nCurrent Total: 200
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Orl -465 \/ Phi +385
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Orl -550 \/ Phi +375<\/p>\n

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Iguodala should prove to be crucial to containing the Magic's half court attack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last time the Magic faced the Sixers, the Sixers won by 8, but that night was the night after the blockbuster trades that Orlando made, and the Magic dressed the NBA minimum number of players for that game.\u00a0 It didn’t matter to ever pessimist Stan Van Gundy.\u00a0 \u201cMake every excuse in the world,\u201d Van Gundy said following the game. \u201cThat\u2019s five straight games where we\u2019ve done nothing to defend in the second half. So whatever the excuses are. I\u2019m running out of them. I don\u2019t believe in any of them. Go out and guard somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, the Magic have continued to struggle defensively and have now dropped three of their last five.\u00a0 J.J. Redick said it’s because of an inability to get key stops.\u00a0 \u201cWe couldn\u2019t get enough stops down the stretch and that was probably the theme of this trip,\u201d J.J. Redick told the team\u2019s official website. \u201cAll three games that we lost were close games and it came down to us not being able to get stops at crucial times. We have to play better against the (better) teams and bring our defensive energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing that bettors may be interested to know is that Philadelphia has never won both road games in Orlando in the Magic’s franchise history, so they have history working against them tonight.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 5 of Philly’s last 6 games and they are 4-2 SU in those games.\u00a0 They are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games and 1-4 SU in their last 5 road games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 4 of Philly’s last 5 on the road and they are 1-7 SU in their last 8 against the Magic.\u00a0 They are also 1-6 ATS in their last 7 against Orlando and 1-4 SU in their last 5 road games against the Magic.\u00a0 They are also 3-6 ATS in their last 9 road games against the Magic.<\/p>\n

Orlando is 9-3-1 ATS in their last 13 games and 10-3 SU in their last 13 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the Magic’s last 5 home games and they are 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games.\u00a0 Orlando is 7-1 SU in their last 8 games against the Sixers.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of their last 6 against Philly and they are 4-1 SU in their last 5 against the Sixers.<\/p>\n

Key matchups:<\/p>\n

Jrue Holiday vs Jameer Nelson & Gilbert Arenas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holiday is one of the franchise cornerstones of the 76ers and he has shown why this season.\u00a0 Averaging 14.6 points per game on the year and 6.6 assist per game, he had a horrible game against the Magic last time, scoring only 5 points on 2 of 7 shooting and recording 5 assists.\u00a0 While he is significantly taller than the supposedly 6’0″ Nelson (Holiday is 6’4″), he will have his match size-wise against Arenas, but will have instead a speed advantage against Arenas.\u00a0 Either way, Holiday should have a much better game tonight, as his career average against the Magic is more than double what he produced last meeting (10.5 ppg and 5.3 apg career vs the Magic).\u00a0 Nelson’s defense has improved lately and he will have a true litmus test tonight against Holiday.\u00a0 Nelson is averaging a career hgih 6.7 assists per game this year, a full assist better than his previous best.\u00a0 He’s not quite playing on the level that he was during his all star campaign of 08-09, but his play has been sufficient for the Magic to have won 10 of their last 13.<\/p>\n

Andre Iguodala vs Hedo Turkoglu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iguodala should be able to apply significant pressure on Turkoglu tonight and possibly force the ball out of his hands some, leaving Nelson to initiate the half court offense.\u00a0 Hedo has been playing the role of a point forward for the Magic and recently recorded his career high game in assists with 17 in a win over Dallas.\u00a0 His scoring has been erratic and inconsistent, and he has scored under 13 in his past 8 games.\u00a0 It won’t get any easier against Iguodala, who frequently gives the very best small forwards problems.<\/p>\n

Orlando may be favored tonight but Philly is a good bet to cover the spread.\u00a0 Other than at the center spot, they matchup very favorably against the Magic and if they can do anything close to containing Howard, it will be a good game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers AT Orlando Magic January 19th, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Orlando -10 Current Line:\u00a0 Orlando -9.5 Opening Total: 199 Current Total: 200 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Orl -465 \/ Phi +385 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Orl -550 \/ Phi +375 Last time the Magic faced the Sixers, the Sixers won by 8, but that night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[659,832],"class_list":["post-12601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-orlando-magic","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601","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=12601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12602,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions\/12602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}