{"id":13341,"date":"2011-02-12T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2011-02-12T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:35:17","slug":"nba-expert-betting-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-washington-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-expert-betting-preview-san-antonio-spurs-at-washington-wizards-13341\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Expert Betting Preview: San Antonio Spurs at Washington Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs AT Washington Wizards
\nFeb 12, 2011 at 8 PM EST
\nOpening Line: SA -7
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 SA -6.5
\nOpening Total: 197
\nCurrent Total: 195
\nOpening Moneyline: SA -305 \/ Was +255
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 SA -280 \/ Was +230<\/strong><\/p>\n

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John Wall is averaging 9.0 assists per game, good for 5th in the league<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Things haven’t been easy for the Wizards, and it won’t be getting easier tonight against the Spurs.\u00a0 The Wizards haven’t beat Spurs in the last 10 meetings, and because the teams only play 2 times a year being of different confrences, the Wizards haven’t won against the Spurs in over five years.<\/p>\n

The Wizards have only won back to back games once in this season and this could be their second chance at a two game winning streak.\u00a0 They had dropped eight straight before winning their last game.\u00a0 Washington coach Flip Saunders tried to draw positives from the victory:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happens is, you keep on saying \u2018hey, we\u2019re getting better\u2019 but sometimes you gotta have a win to show it.\u00a0 That\u2019s something that is optical that you can see. Players need to get those and I thats something they can build (on).\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

San Antonio is 15-3 SU in their last 18 games and 4-1 SU in their last 5 road games.\u00a0 San Antonio is 5-0 SU in their last 5 againts the Wizards and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of the last 5 against Washington.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 6 of the last 7 road games against Washington and San Antonio is 4-1 SU in their last 5 games in Washington.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Washington’s last 5 games and Washington is 1-8 SU in their last 9 games.\u00a0 Washington is 6-15 ATS in their last 21 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 14 of the Wizards’ last 18 home games.\u00a0 Washington is 2-4 SU in their last 6 home games against the Spurs. Washington is 2-4 SU in their last 6 home games and they are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games against San Antonio.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the last 5 games against the Spurs and Washington is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games against San Antonio.\u00a0 Washington is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 home games against the Spurs and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of the last 7 home games against the Spurs.\u00a0 Washington is 1-4 SU in their last 5 home games against San Antonio.
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\nKey Matchups:<\/p>\n

Tony Parker & George Hill vs. John Wall<\/strong><\/p>\n

Going into the season, John Wall was projected to be the rookie of the year by many experts.\u00a0 Well, he hasn’t been, and it isn’t because he isn’t playing well.\u00a0 It’s just that his counter part Blake Griffin has been that much better.\u00a0 Wall will look to build on his successes tonight against the quick George Hill and Tony Parker.\u00a0 Wall is great handling the ball and should be able to get Hill and Parker falling back on their heels quite a bit.\u00a0 He’s adept at getting to the basket and creating easy shots for himself or (especially) JaVale McGee.\u00a0 Wall is in elite company in assists.\u00a0 Ranking 5th in the league he is behind only 4 established stars in Rondo, Nash, Chris Paul, and Deron Williams.\u00a0 If Wall continues to improve his offense he could easily become one of those top players.\u00a0 He’s been putting up stats on a bad team, but his talent level is such that you could expect him to put up great numbers no matter which team he was on.
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\nManu Ginobili vs Nick Young<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nick Young has emerged as one of the best at putting up points.\u00a0 He’s more than doubled his scoring average from last season and is now averaging 17.6 points per game.\u00a0 He dropped 43 points in a win over Sacramento and he has scored 21 or more in 6 of his last 9 games.\u00a0 Ginobili is a decent defender and could frustrate Young, however.\u00a0 What’s more is that Young will have to chase Ginobili around on defense, a task that is sure to zap some of his energy that would otherwise be expended on the offensive end.\u00a0 Ginobili made the all star team this year, which is something Young may aspire to, but he isn’t there yet.\u00a0 Ginobili’s craftyness should be good to exploit Young on defense as he just doesn’t have the experience covering players like Ginobili for large stretches.<\/p>\n

Given the Spurs’ dominance against Washington, the line actually looks a little too close.\u00a0 The Spurs are 19-7 on the road and Washington is 12-14 at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs AT Washington Wizards Feb 12, 2011 at 8 PM EST Opening Line: SA -7 Current Line:\u00a0 SA -6.5 Opening Total: 197 Current Total: 195 Opening Moneyline: SA -305 \/ Was +255 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 SA -280 \/ Was +230 Things haven’t been easy for the Wizards, and it won’t be getting easier tonight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3928,843,3786,4348,141,3350,1029,644],"class_list":["post-13341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-george-hill","tag-john-wall","tag-manu-ginobili","tag-nick-young","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan","tag-tony-parker","tag-washington-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341","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=13341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13343,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions\/13343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}