{"id":13143,"date":"2011-02-05T21:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13143"},"modified":"2011-02-05T21:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T02:30:31","slug":"a-rose-in-the-oracle-chicago-bulls-at-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/a-rose-in-the-oracle-chicago-bulls-at-golden-state-warriors-13143\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rose in the Oracle: Chicago Bulls at Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls at Golden State Warriors
\nFeb 5, 2011 10:30 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3.5
\nCurrent Line: Chicago -3.5
\nOpening Total: 202
\nCurrent Total: 204.5
\nOpening moneyline: Chi -165 \/ GS +145
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Chi -160 \/ GS +140<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rose is having a phenomenal year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago has been playing particuarly well.\u00a0 They’ve won 6 straight and over the win streak they have not allowed more than 90 points and are winning the games by an average of 12.5 points.\u00a0 The scary thing is that they’ve been doing this without their starting center, workhorse Joakim Noah.\u00a0 \u201cOur confidence is very high,\u201d Derrick Rose said. \u201cWe\u2019re still under the radar, but that\u2019s fine with us. We\u2019re just going to try to keep getting wins. We\u2019re jelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golden State is giving up 106.2 points per game this year.\u00a0 It’s hard to win when your defense is that bad.\u00a0 They put up 103.3 points of their own, but at what point do you abandon the run n gun style and go for a more traditional team that runs half court sets and shoots with 10 seconds or less on the shot clock on many plays.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Chicago’s last 8 games and they are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of their last 6 road games and they are 4-1-1 ATS in those games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 games against Golden State and Chicago is 5-1 SU in their last 6 against Golden State.\u00a0 Chicago is 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games on the road vs Golden State.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Chicago’s last 16 games on the road against Golden State.\u00a0 The total has also gone OVER in 4 of Chicago’s past 6 road games at Golden State, and they are 2-9 SU in their last 11 games at Oracle arena.<\/p>\n

Golden State is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games and 1-4 ATS in their last 5.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 9 of Golden State’s last 11 games and OVER in 12 of their last 14 home games.\u00a0 Golden State is 9-4 SU in their last 13 at home and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Golden State’s last 5 games against the Bulls and Golden State is 1-5 SU in their last 6 against the Bulls.\u00a0 Golden State is 1-4-1 ATS in those games and 9-2 SU in their last 11 home games against Golden State.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/p>\n

Carlos Boozer vs. David Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a battle of two all-star level players, though only one of them has been playing like one.\u00a0 Lee’s numbers are down across the board but especially in scoring where his average has dipped 4.3 points since last year.\u00a0 He’s still a good player, but nothing like the force he was in New York.\u00a0 Boozer has been playing Boozer basketball, and if you follow Boozer at all, you will know that is a very good thing.\u00a0 He’s close to another 20-10 season, something he hasn’t done since 07-08.\u00a0 He’s averaging 20 points and 10 boards over the last two games, and his average will probably be about that when the year ends, if he continues to increase at this pace.<\/p>\n

Derrick Rose vs. Stephen Curry<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is another great matchup between two young superstars.\u00a0 Curry isn’t quite on Rose’s level, but then again, there are few point guards who are.\u00a0 Rose is averaging 24.6 points per game, 8.2 assists per game, 4.6 rebounds, 44.5% FG, 37.9% three, 82% FT.\u00a0 Curry’s numbers have improved moderately in his second season as\u00a0 a pro.\u00a0 He’s averaging 19.1 points per game this year, and is also getting 5.9 assists and 3.6 rebounds.\u00a0 For his career against Chicago (3 games) he is averaging 16.3 points, 4.3 asts, and 3 rebs per night, a full 1.7 points below his career average.\u00a0 Is Rose the cause of this?\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 It won’t be long until we’re talking about him taking over on the defensive end of the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls at Golden State Warriors Feb 5, 2011 10:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3.5 Current Line: Chicago -3.5 Opening Total: 202 Current Total: 204.5 Opening moneyline: Chi -165 \/ GS +145 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Chi -160 \/ GS +140 Chicago has been playing particuarly well.\u00a0 They’ve won 6 straight and over the win streak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[2067,174,1334,521,1011,163,14],"class_list":["post-13143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-david-lee","tag-derrick-rose","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-joakim-noah","tag-stephen-curry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143","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=13143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13145,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143\/revisions\/13145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}