{"id":12735,"date":"2011-01-24T17:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12735"},"modified":"2011-01-24T17:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:51:22","slug":"shootout-at-oracle-san-antonio-spurs-at-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/shootout-at-oracle-san-antonio-spurs-at-golden-state-warriors-12735\/","title":{"rendered":"Shootout at Oracle: San Antonio Spurs AT Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs AT Golden State Warriors
\nJan 24, 2011 at 10:30 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 SA -5.5
\nCurrent Line: SA -5.5
\nOpening Total: 210.5
\nCurrent Total: 211
\nOpening Moneyline: SA -215 \/ GSW +185
\nCurrent Moneyline: SA -230 \/ GSW +190<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Second Year Guard Stephen Curry Will Lead the Warriors High Octane Offense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In recent time, The San Antonio Spurs have absolutely dominated the Golden State Warriors.\u00a0 They’ve won the last 10 and will be looking for their 11th consecutive victory over the perennial lottery team, the Warriors.\u00a0 It’s not that Golden State hasn’t had talented players.\u00a0 In 2008, they beat the #1 seeded Mavericks in the playoffs.\u00a0 They’ve since lost many players from that team (Baron Davis, Matt Barnes, Azubuike) but still have Monta Ellis, who is one of the best shooting guards in the league, and he’s capable of putting up big numbers on any given night.<\/p>\n

San Antonio’s change of philosophy into a run n gun team has worked int their advantage.\u00a0 They have the league’s best record, but it doesn’t seem as though many are realistically thinking the championship will be won by the Spurs.\u00a0 The Lakers have just been cruising, not playing particuarly well, but every one knows they will turn it on in the playoffs.\u00a0 Will the Spurs remain dominant or will they let the more brutal teams beat them in the playoffs?<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Antonio’s past\u00a0 games and they are 8-1 SU in their last 9.\u00a0 San Antonio is 13-5 SU in their last 18 road games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Antonio’s last 5 games on the road.\u00a0 San Antonio is 5-0 SU in their last 5 against the Warriors.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 12 of their last 16 road games against the Warriors and the Sprus are 4-1 SU in their last 5 road games against Golden State.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 5 of Golden State’s last 5 games and they are 4-1 SU in those 5 games.\u00a0 They are 7-1 SU in their last 8 home games and the total has gone OVER In all 5 of their past 5 home games.\u00a0 They are 0-5 SU in their last 5 against the Spurs and 0-5 ATS in those games.\u00a0 Golden State is 1-3-1 ATS in their last 5 games against the Spurs.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 12 of Golden State’s past 16 games at home against the Spurs and they are 1-4 SU in their last 5 home games against the Spurs.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/p>\n

Manu Ginobili vs. Monta Ellis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before the season in the player prop bets, Bodog had set the line under Monta Ellis’ previous season.\u00a0 I wondered how this could be, considering that he had increased his scoring average every year in the league, and guess what?\u00a0 That’s right, he’s done it again.\u00a0 I advocated taking the over on that line regarding his scoring and if you did, congrats, it’s a lock.\u00a0 Ginobili has been quietly having one of the best years of his ten year NBA career.\u00a0 At almost 34 years of age, Ginobili is averaging the most points her has in a season since 07-08, and the second highest average of his entire career.\u00a0 He’s been doing it by taking more shots, plain and simple.\u00a0 It doesn’t hurt that his per night minute average is the highest of his career so far, either.\u00a0 He’s playing 31+ minutes a game, and is ordinarily in the sixth man role, but he has started this year.\u00a0 He should give Ellis plenty of work on defense, since Ellis doesn’t seem able to translate his overall quickness to lateral quickness and consequently isn’t the defender he should be given his overall athleticism.
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\nTim Duncan vs. David Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lee has been a bit of a disappointment for the Warriors this year, but not really due to any fault of his.\u00a0 It’s just been that he hasn’t had the offensive usage that he received in New York and his rebounding numbers are down a tad.\u00a0 Duncan is naturally declining as he ages, but he is still effective and though he turns 35 in a few months, he will still be a force into his late 30s just like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.\u00a0 He’ll be a relic that exists solely because of hard work, skill, and effort.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game should be a high scoring affair and NBA Oddsmakers have set the total line over 210 points a game.\u00a0 Expect for Ginobili and Ellis to have big games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs AT Golden State Warriors Jan 24, 2011 at 10:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 SA -5.5 Current Line: SA -5.5 Opening Total: 210.5 Current Total: 211 Opening Moneyline: SA -215 \/ GSW +185 Current Moneyline: SA -230 \/ GSW +190 In recent time, The San Antonio Spurs have absolutely dominated the Golden State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1011,141],"class_list":["post-12735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735","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=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12737,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions\/12737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}