{"id":13338,"date":"2011-02-12T18:11:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2011-02-12T18:11:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:11:41","slug":"rose-vs-cp3-chicago-bulls-at-new-orleans-hornets-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/rose-vs-cp3-chicago-bulls-at-new-orleans-hornets-betting-preview-13338\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose vs. CP3: Chicago Bulls at New Orleans Hornets Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls AT New Orleans Hornets
\nFeb 12, 2011 at 8 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3
\nOpening Total: 181.5
\nCurrent Total: 181.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -145 \/ New Orelans +125
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -155 \/ New Orelans +135<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Derrick Rose is entering MVP conversations as the Bulls have surged to the top of the eastern conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those that still don’t believe the Bulls are one of the elite teams in the league, they need only begin to look at the Eastern Conference standings to prove themselves wrong.\u00a0 Chicago has won 7 of their last 10 and pulled to within 2.5 games for the conference lead (Miami is the leader).\u00a0 Perhaps most impressive of all is that Chicago is undefeated against divisional opponents.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have won 4 straight against New Orleans and though they are only 12-12 on the road, NBA oddsmakers have favored them by 3 points, a testament to how well they are playing.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Chicago is 7-2 SU in their last 9 games and the toal has gone UNDER in 7 of their last 11 games.\u00a0 The total has alson gone UNDER in 4 of the Bulls’ last 6 road games.\u00a0 Chicago is 4-1 SU in their last 5 against New Orleans and the total has gone OVER in 7 of the last 8 road games against the Hornets.\u00a0 Chicago is 5-13 SU in their last 18 road games against the Hornets and Chicago is 4-2 SU in their last 6 road games against the Hornets.<\/p>\n

New Orleans is 12-6 SU in their last 18 games and 1-4 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone “UNDER in 4 of New Orleans last 5 games at home.\u00a0 New Orleans is 6-2 SU in their last 8 games at home.\u00a0 New Orleans is 1-6 ATS in their last 7 games at home.\u00a0 New Orleans is 1-4 SU in their last 5 games against the Chicago Bulls.\u00a0 New Orleans is 5-11-1 ATS in their last 17 home games against Chicago.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 7 of the last 8 home games against the Bulls and New Orelans is 2-4 SU in their last 6 againts Chicago and they are 13-5 SU in their last 18 at home against the Bulls.
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\nKey Matchups:<\/p>\n

Derrick Rose vs Chris Paul<\/strong><\/p>\n

This showcase matchup should prove to be one of the more entertaining of the year.\u00a0 Rose and Paul are both at the top of the class in point guards and both are legitimate MVP candidates.\u00a0 Rose is having the best year of his 3 year NBA career.\u00a0 His scoring average is up nearly 4 points from last year and his assists are up 2.2 from last year.\u00a0 On the year he is averaging 24.7 points per game (8th best in the league), 8.2 assists (10th best in the league), and 4.4 rebounds.\u00a0 His opponent, Chris Paul is averaging 16.5 points per game (41st in the league) and 9.7 assists (3rd in the league).\u00a0 Both point guards are extremely quick and crafty with the ball and they will both have their hands full with one another on the defensive end.\u00a0 The advantage is always in the offensive player’s hand, and though both are good defenders, they are much better at scoring and distributing the ball.
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\nCarlos Boozer vs David West<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boozer and West both have one thing in common: they made the all star team in the past but did not make it this year.\u00a0 Though Boozer missed the first 15 games of the season, he has contributed in a typical Carlos Boozer way, putting up nearly 20 & 10 as he has done for the last 5 seasons.\u00a0 For his career against the Hornets he is averaging 20.4 points per game and 9.8 rebounds per game, right on about his career average.\u00a0 West has continued to put up solid numbers as well, boasting season averages of 19.0 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 While Boozer is clearly a better rebounder, their scoring prowess is about the same, and both actually play similar games, spotting up on the perimeter a lot and then banging a little at other times.\u00a0 Boozer is much tougher than West though, and gets the nod in this matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls AT New Orleans Hornets Feb 12, 2011 at 8 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3 Current Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3 Opening Total: 181.5 Current Total: 181.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -145 \/ New Orelans +125 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Chicago -155 \/ New Orelans +135 For those that still don’t believe the Bulls are one of the […]<\/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":[2067,174,837,3593,521,4483],"class_list":["post-13338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chris-paul","tag-david-west","tag-derrick-rose","tag-new-orelans-hornets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338","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=13338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13340,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions\/13340"}],"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=13338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}