{"id":12975,"date":"2011-01-31T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12975"},"modified":"2011-01-31T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:58:13","slug":"nba-picks-ats-charlotte-bobcats-at-utah-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-ats-charlotte-bobcats-at-utah-jazz-12975\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks ATS: Charlotte Bobcats at Utah Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Bobcats AT Utah Jazz
\nJan 31, 2011 at 9 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Utah -3
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Utah -3
\nOpening total: 190
\nCurrent Total: 189
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Uta -150 \/ Cha +130
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Uta -160 \/ Cha +135<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Utah has not been playing good ball lately<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Bobcats may finally be rested.\u00a0 Last game against the Clippers, they were on the second leg of a back to back, and they appeared dead legged and exhausted, losing the game by 15 points.\u00a0 They haven’t had success with the Jazz in recent times.\u00a0 They’ve lost the last 4 matchups between the teams.\u00a0 They may get some respite tonight, however, as Deron Williams may not be in the lineup for the Jazz.\u00a0 Williams scores 22 a game and gets 9 assists per night, aiding Utah in nearly half of their points.\u00a0 The blow of not having Williams would be enough for the Bobcats to have a good shot at winning this one.\u00a0 The Jazz have been struggling, their once impressive record has fallen to 28-20.<\/p>\n

Bobcats coach Paul Silas is confident that tonight will be different.\u00a0 \u201cI think we\u2019ll be ready for Utah for sure,\u201d Silas told the Bobcats\u2019 official website. \u201cThat\u2019s the next big game for us. My guys were a little tired (Saturday). \u2026 We\u2019ll just take it as it is and be ready for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Charlotte is 5-2 SU in their last 7 games and the total has gone OVER in 4 of Charlotte’s last 6 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Charlotte’s last 6 road games and the Bobcats are 5-12 SU in their last 17 road games.\u00a0 Charlotte is 4-1 SU in their last 5 road games and the total has gone OVER in all 5 of their last 5 games against the Jazz.\u00a0 Charlotte is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games against Utah and 1-4-1 ATS in those games.\u00a0 Charlotte is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games against the Jazz and the total has gone OVER in 5 of their last 5 games on the road, as well.\u00a0 Charlotte is 1-4 SU in their last 5 road games against the Utah Jazz.<\/p>\n

Utah is 1-7 SU in their last 8 games and the total has gone OVER in 5 of their last 6 at home.\u00a0 Utah is 13-4 SU in their last 18 home games and 2-6 ATS in their last 8 home games.\u00a0 Utah is 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 games against the Bobcats and the total has gone OVER in 5 of the last 5 games against the Bobcats.\u00a0 Utah is 5-1 SU in their last 6 against Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/p>\n

Boris Diaw vs. Paul Millsap<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diaw is anything but the exciting player he once was in Phoenix.\u00a0 Looking unmotivated and overweight for the season, he has been erratic and average at best.\u00a0 That won’t help him against Millsap, who is finally getting his chance to be a starter in the NBA and has made the most of it.
\nHe’s averaging 16.9 points per game and 7.7 rebounds per night, playing over 6 minutes more per game than he did last year when Utah had now-Chicago Bull Carlos Boozer.\u00a0 Diaw’s averages are pretty pedestrian.\u00a0 11.6 points, 5.5 rebounds, and a somewhat impressive 3.8 assists.\u00a0 Diaw also shoots a high percentage from the field (50%) but he doesn’t have to take many bad shots because Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson take care of that for him.
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\nRaja Bell vs. Stephen Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n

This matchup goes to the Bobcats.\u00a0 Jackson is a high scoring dynamic taller (6’8″) guard and Raja Bell is no longer the strong defender he was in his younger days.\u00a0 He’ll still get some stops, but expect “Captain Jack” to get the best of this matchup.\u00a0 Jackson doesn’t shoot a high percentage from the field because he is often forced to shoot bad shots with the clock running down, and because he takes a lot of ill advised shots.\u00a0 He’s not logging the super heavy minutes he did last year (39 per game) this year, playing 36 minutes a game, but he averages 18 points per game and 4.7 rebounds and 3.8 assists.\u00a0 It won’t be enough to make the all star game, but without Jackson the Bobcats would be worse than Cleveland.<\/p>\n

I’m somewhat perplexed by the -3 line.\u00a0 Apparently some people are counting on Deron Williams playing and others not.\u00a0 If Deron Williams doesn’t play, the Bobcats will have a much stronger chance, but I’m not sure that should make them favorites by any means either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Bobcats AT Utah Jazz Jan 31, 2011 at 9 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Utah -3 Current Line:\u00a0 Utah -3 Opening total: 190 Current Total: 189 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Uta -150 \/ Cha +130 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Uta -160 \/ Cha +135 The Bobcats may finally be rested.\u00a0 Last game against the Clippers, they were on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[87,2895,3784,1199,838],"class_list":["post-12975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-charlotte-bobcats","tag-deron-williams","tag-paul-millsap","tag-stephen-jackson","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975","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=12975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12977,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions\/12977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}