{"id":12962,"date":"2011-01-31T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12962"},"modified":"2011-01-31T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:47:07","slug":"washington-wizards-at-dallas-mavericks-nba-basketball-expert-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/washington-wizards-at-dallas-mavericks-nba-basketball-expert-picks-12962\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards at Dallas Mavericks NBA Basketball Expert Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Wizards at Dallas Mavericks
\nMonday, 1\/31\/11, 8:30 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 198
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Dallas Mavericks enter Monday night's contest on a four-game winning streak and face a team that's winless on the road during the 2010-11 season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Washington enters tonight\u2019s contest with an 0-23 road record and will look to snap the string of losses in the first game of a back-to-back set in Dallas Monday night.\u00a0 The Wizards began their current four-game road trip with a 124-117 double-overtime loss to the Thunder on Friday night and then dropped a 107-93 decision versus the Grizzlies.\u00a0 \u201cWe felt good about Friday night and we just didn\u2019t carry it over,\u201d said coach Flip Saunders.\u00a0 \u201cWe had some guys who did, but when you are missing guys, and your are not at full strength, you can\u2019t have a couple of guys play.\u201d\u00a0 The squad is 5-12 overall against the Western Conference, but carries in an 0-8 mark on the road against such opponents.\u00a0 Washington is 6-17 ATS on the road this season and is nearly a double-digit underdog on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Wizards will be meeting the Mavericks for the first of two meetings tonight, as the two teams will meet against on February 26th in Washington.\u00a0 The two teams split last season\u2019s series at one game apiece.\u00a0 Rookie point guard John Wall is the go-to guy for the team, leading all Eastern Conference rookies in the month of January in scoring (13.7) and assists (10.5).\u00a0 Nick Young is also providing the lineup with some offensive firepower this season, averaging a career-high and team-high 17.0 points per game.\u00a0 He left the last game in the fourth quarter with a calf injury.\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t stay consistent,\u201d he commented on the team\u2019s road play.\u00a0 \u201cWe need to play calm.\u00a0 It\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dallas will look to win its fifth straight and push its home record to 8-4 when hosting Eastern Conference foes.\u00a0 The Mavericks have won three of the last four meetings with the Wizards and nine of the last 14.\u00a0 The team seems to be clicking on all cylinders currently due to an impressive 102-91 win over Atlanta on Saturday, which placed seven players in double figures.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s about spreading it around,\u201d said guard Jason Terry.\u00a0 \u201cOffensively, guys are penetrating in and it\u2019s beautiful.\u201d\u00a0 One guy the team will focus on getting the ball to is forward Dirk Nowitzki, who averaged 31.0 points and 7.0 rebounds against tonight\u2019s opponent last year.\u00a0 Dallas is 6-1 ATS versus Southeast Division teams this year.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have put together a string of at least four consecutive victories four different times this season.\u00a0 Dallas has been incredible at the charity stripe over this period, knocking down 100-of-111 (.901) attempts.\u00a0 Center Tyson Chandler has also started gaining notice with his recent play, averaging 20.3 points in the last three games, which is more than double his season average.\u00a0 \u201cCoach Carlisle has given me some more plays, given me some more looks,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cBecause of that I\u2019ve gotten more aggressive.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Wizards due to the underdog being 5-2 ATS in the last seven meetings, while the Mavericks are 1-5 ATS versus the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a huge night and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington Wizards at Dallas Mavericks Monday, 1\/31\/11, 8:30 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 198 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Washington enters tonight\u2019s contest with an 0-23 road record and will look to snap the string of losses in the first game of a back-to-back set in Dallas Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[19,20,843,4348,699,644],"class_list":["post-12962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-john-wall","tag-nick-young","tag-tyson-chandler","tag-washington-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962","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=12962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12964,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12962\/revisions\/12964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}