{"id":13200,"date":"2011-02-08T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13200"},"modified":"2011-02-08T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:32:39","slug":"hawk-home-cookin-philadelphia-76ers-at-atlanta-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/hawk-home-cookin-philadelphia-76ers-at-atlanta-hawks-13200\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawk Home Cookin’: Philadelphia 76ers at Atlanta Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers AT Atlanta Hawks
\nFeb 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Atlanta -4.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Atlanta -4.0
\nOpening Total: 193
\nCurrent Total: 192
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Atlanta -190 \/ Phila +160
\nCurrent Moneyline: Atlanta -175 \/ Phila +155<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Josh Smith went for 29 last game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Hawks have been very good at home as winners of 14 of their last 16 home games.\u00a0 They may be playing without All Star big man Al Horford tonight, though, as he bruised his back and sat out last game, their victory over Washington.\u00a0 Joe Johnson and Josh Smith didn’t practice, but are both expected to play.\u00a0 With Horford sidelined, Josh Smith went on to score 29 points and commented, \u201cWe have so many weapons on the team, it can be anybody\u2019s night at any given time, Coach was running plays for me and I was able to execute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has continued to surge and had won 6 of their last 7 before dropping last game to New York.\u00a0 \u201c\u2026We had a great streak and we\u2019re playing really well, so we need to regroup and get on to Atlanta,\u201d said forward Elton Brand who scored an average of 30.5 over the two game session against the two game home and home vs. Knicks.\u00a0 Bettors will be interested to know that Philadelphia is 1-16 when allowing 100 points or more.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Philadelphia is 6-2 SU in their last 8 games and the total has gone OVER in 4 of their last 6 games.\u00a0 The total has also gone OVER in 5 of their last 6 road games.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 2-6 SU in their last 8 road games and 1-4 SU in their last 5 against the Hawks.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 6 of the last 9 road meetings against the Hawks and Philadelphia is 2-5 SU in their last 7 road games against Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta’s last 7 games and they are 4-1 SU in their last 5.\u00a0 Atlanta is 14-2 SU in their last 16 home games and 2-4 ATS in their last 6 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 8 of the last 12 Hawks’ home games.\u00a0 Atlanta is 4-1 SU in their last 5 against the Sixers and 2-5 ATS in their last 7 against them.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 6 of Atlanta’s last 9 home games against Philadelphia and they are 5-2 SU in their last 7 against the Hawks.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/p>\n

Jodie Meeks vs. Joe Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meeks will have to do all he can to slow Johnson.\u00a0 Johnson has been playing exceptional basketball and is once again an All Star in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0 Meeks has been a pleasant surprise for the Sixers and is averaging 12.6 points per game over the last 5 games.\u00a0 It won’t be enough to match Johnson, but Meeks has to look to score and give Johnson something to worry about on defense.\u00a0 Johnson has scored 27 points or more in 3 of his last 5 games and is averaging 17.8 points, 5.2 assists, and 4.0 rebounds in his career against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Jrue Holiday vs. Mike Bibby<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bibby has absolutely no defense against the lightning quick 6’5″ Jrue Holiday.\u00a0 There would have been a time in Bibby’s career that his offense would have made up for that defecit, but Bibby is in his twilight years now and only averages 9.4 points per game this year in 30 minutes of action a night.\u00a0 Holiday won’t score a ton (13.7 ppg), but he is great at getting into the paint and creating for himself and teammates.\u00a0 He averages 6.5 assists per game and also boards well for a point guard with 4.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He might get even more boards against Bibby if Bibby can’t keep Holiday from getting long rebounds on offense.<\/p>\n

Given Philadelphia’s recent play, this should be a good game, but the Hawks are extremely tough to beat at Philips Arena and thus are favored by 4 in this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers AT Atlanta Hawks Feb 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Atlanta -4.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Atlanta -4.0 Opening Total: 193 Current Total: 192 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Atlanta -190 \/ Phila +160 Current Moneyline: Atlanta -175 \/ Phila +155 The Hawks have been very good at home as winners of 14 of their last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3277,834,877,2897,3276,943,832],"class_list":["post-13200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-al-horford","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-jodie-meeks","tag-joe-johnson","tag-josh-smith","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200","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=13200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13202,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions\/13202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}