{"id":13093,"date":"2011-02-04T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2011-02-04T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:48:14","slug":"free-nba-picks-ats-miami-heat-at-charlotte-bobcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/free-nba-picks-ats-miami-heat-at-charlotte-bobcats-13093\/","title":{"rendered":"Free NBA Picks ATS: Miami Heat at Charlotte Bobcats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat AT Charlotte Bobcats
\nFeb 4, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Miami -6
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5
\nOpening Total: 188
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 190
\nOpening Moneyline: Mia -200 \/ Cha +185
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Mia -245 \/ Cha +195<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lebron scored 51 in Orlando on Thursday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Bobcats are hoping they can build on the momentum of their 4-2 road trip with a victory over Miami at home tonight.\u00a0 Stephen Jackson, who has averaged 25.3 points over his last six games, takes just that approach.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s good to come back 4-2 knowing the tough games we have ahead of us, Hopefully we can carry it over.\u201d<\/p>\n

It won’t be easy.\u00a0 In their previous two games against the Heat this year, they lost by an average of 11.0 points and Miami is coming off an impressive victory of their own against the Magic, a 104-100 thriller in which LeBron had his 9th 50+ point game of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren’t that good in November. I think the numbers spoke for it. We had a lot of talent, but it takes time for a team to come together. I think a couple months…\u201d said LeBron James, on the fact that the Heat are just now beginning to play like the team many feared and anticipated they would be.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Miami is 5-1 SU in their last 6 games and 2-4 SU in their last 6 road games.\u00a0 Miami is 15-4 SU in their last 19 road games and the total has gone UNDER in all 5 of the last 5 against Charlotte.\u00a0 Miami is 6-3 SU in their last 9 against the Bobctats and 1-4-1 ATS in their last 6 against them.\u00a0 Miami is 4-8-1 ATS in their last 13 games on the road in Charlotte.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Miami’s last 8 games on the road in Charlotte and Miami is 2-6 SU in their last 8 games on the road in Charlotte.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Charlotte’s last 6 games and they are 4-2 SU in those games.\u00a0 They are 4-2 SU in their last 6 home games and the total has gone UNDER in 12 of their last 17 games at home.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of their last 6 games at home.\u00a0 Charlotte is 3-6 SU in their last 9 games against the Heat.\u00a0 They are 7-2-1 ATS in their last 10 against Miami.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER In 5 of the last 5 meetings with the Heat and the total has gone UNDER in 7 of their last 8 home games against the Heat.\u00a0 The Bobcats are 6-2 SU in their last 8 home games against the Heat.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/p>\n

Dwyane Wade vs. Stephen Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Wade is clearly the better player in this matchup, don’t underestimate Jackson.\u00a0 He recently recorded his season high of 39 points against Detroit in a 10 point Bobcat victory.\u00a0 He’s a great scorer and is able to facilitate for his teammates very well, and to top it off he is 3 inches taller than Wade.\u00a0 Wade is much quicker however and will find ways to beat Jackson off the dribble to get into the Bobcats’ weak interior.\u00a0 It isn’t a good sign when the only thing between Wade and the basket is Boris Diaw and Kwame Brown.\u00a0 I expect both Wade and Jackson to have big scoring nights, actually, though Wade will likely outscore him in this matchup.<\/p>\n

LeBron James vs. Gerald Wallace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wallace is one of the few people in the league that has a legitimate chance of slowing down James, but after LeBron’s 51 point explosion, I wouldn’t be betting that Wallace actually does slow down James.\u00a0 James has such a huge strength advantage against Wallace (and indeed against most of the forwards in the league) that he will be able to over power Wallace on trips to the basket, and when he isn’t doing that, Wallace will find it difficult to contest LeBron’s almost unstoppable fade away.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game probably will not be as close as NBA oddsmakers have set the line.\u00a0 Miami is a superior team to the Bobcats and though the Cats have some decent matchups, they can’t slow down the Heat.\u00a0 Also interesting is the total, which is obviously predicated upon Charlotte’s season average statistics, since they have since picked up the pace following the hiring of Paul Silas.\u00a0 A bet on the ‘over’ seems like a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat AT Charlotte Bobcats Feb 4, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Miami -6 Current Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5 Opening Total: 188 Current Total:\u00a0 190 Opening Moneyline: Mia -200 \/ Cha +185 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Mia -245 \/ Cha +195 The Bobcats are hoping they can build on the momentum of their 4-2 road trip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[87,2896,66,707],"class_list":["post-13093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-charlotte-bobcats","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093","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=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13095,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions\/13095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}