{"id":13027,"date":"2011-02-02T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13027"},"modified":"2011-02-02T17:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:59:40","slug":"msg-meeting-betting-predictions-for-dallas-mavs-at-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/msg-meeting-betting-predictions-for-dallas-mavs-at-new-york-knicks-13027\/","title":{"rendered":"MSG Meeting: Betting Predictions for Dallas Mavs at New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks AT New York Knicks
\nFeb 2, 2011 at 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 NY -2
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 NY -2.5
\nOpening Total: 207
\nCurrent Total: 210
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 NY -125 \/ Dal +115
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 NY -130 \/ Dal +110<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dirk is starting to hit stride and New York doesn't really have anyone capable of slowing him down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A streak will come to an end tonight.\u00a0 The Knicks have won three straight at home and Dallas has won five straight overall.\u00a0 New York has been doing it in an unexpected way:\u00a0 stingy and tough defense.\u00a0 They have held their last three opponents to 15 point fourth quarter totals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m noticing is that the fact that when the fourth quarter comes around, guys are really focusing in and really being sharp defensively,\u201d Knicks star Amar’e Stoudemire said. \u201cThat\u2019s the tenacity that we have to play with, definitely in the fourth quarter, but we\u2019re trying to put together a full 48-minute game that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stopping Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas from scoring in the fourth may prove to be a bit challenging, however.\u00a0 Dirk is year in and year out one of the top fourth quarter killers.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Dallas is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games and 4-9 ATS in their last 13 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER In 5 of Dallas’ last 6 road games and they are 1-5 SU in those games.\u00a0 They are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 road games and Dallas is 8-1 SU over their last 9 games against the Knicks.\u00a0 Dallas is 7-1 SU in their last 8 road games against New York on the road.<\/p>\n

New York is 3-7 SU in their last 10 games and 7-2 SU at home in their last 9 home games.\u00a0 THe total has gone OVER In 4 of their 6 last home games and\u00a0 they are 1-8 SU in their last 9 against Dallas.\u00a0 New York is 5-12 ATS in their last 17 games against the Mavericks.\u00a0 New York is 1-7 ATS in their last 8 home games against Dallas.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of New York’s last 7 games at home against Dallas and they are 1-7 SU in their last 8 home games against the Mavericks.
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\nKey Matchups:<\/p>\n

Dirk Nowitzki vs. Amar’e Stoudemire<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really don’t know if these two will match up with one another defensively, but based on positions, they should be.\u00a0 They’ll be the main scorer on their respective team, but both could be spared fouls and effort on defense by covering one of the other front line players.\u00a0 We’ll see what happens there.\u00a0 Dirk hasn’t been himself since returning from injury, scoring more than 24 points only once in 8 games.\u00a0 He played relatively well last game against Washington with 24 pts, 2 ast, 4 rebs.\u00a0 Amar’e has been doing his thing though.\u00a0 Last game he went for 33 pts and 6 rebounds and he is averaging 28.5 a game while hauling in 6.5 rebounds (could use some work there of course).\u00a0 Dirk is too slow to cover Amar’e.\u00a0 Amar’e isn’t clever enough to cover Dirk.\u00a0 I just don’t know if they will match up against one another on defense or not.<\/p>\n

Jason Kidd vs. Raymond Felto<\/strong>n<\/p>\n

Felton is on his way up in the league and has been thrown around in all star discussions.\u00a0 Kidd has been there and done that a million times and back, so he’s not too concerned with probably not making it this year.\u00a0 Felton came to New York in a free agent deal this summer and has thrived under D’Antoni, proving that a successful offensive system can be a huge benefit, especially to a point guard.\u00a0 Playing under Larry Brown, Felton just never seemed to hit stride.\u00a0 The games were too slow paced and it took him out of his rhythm.\u00a0 Kidd is still a passable defender, but truly lacks the short bursts of speed it takes to cover Felton and his crossover or hesitation dribble.\u00a0 Kidd is still averaging 8.4 assists per game, but his scoring is down to 8.1 with over half his field goals being three pointers.\u00a0 The result is a 35.1% field goal percentage.\u00a0 That’s not really acceptable for a starting point guard on a championship caliber team like Dallas, so we’ll keep on eye on if Rodrique Beaubois begins to get more minutes as Kidd rests.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game should be a good showdown between two very good teams.\u00a0 New York is barely over .500, but it has been clear that when they are at their best they are very hard to beat.\u00a0 Miami can attest to that.\u00a0 But they’ll have their hands full with Dirk and that could end up making the difference for the Mavericks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks AT New York Knicks Feb 2, 2011 at 7:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 NY -2 Current Line:\u00a0 NY -2.5 Opening Total: 207 Current Total: 210 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 NY -125 \/ Dal +115 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 NY -130 \/ Dal +110 A streak will come to an end tonight.\u00a0 The Knicks have won three straight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[669,19,20,115],"class_list":["post-13027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-amare-stoudemire","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027","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=13027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13029,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions\/13029"}],"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=13027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}