{"id":13379,"date":"2011-02-14T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T23:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13379"},"modified":"2011-02-14T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T23:06:59","slug":"free-nba-picks-ats-san-antonio-spurs-at-new-jersey-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/free-nba-picks-ats-san-antonio-spurs-at-new-jersey-nets-13379\/","title":{"rendered":"Free NBA Picks ATS: San Antonio Spurs at New Jersey Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs AT New Jersey Nets
\nFeb 14, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 SA -8.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 SA -8
\nOpening Total: 191
\nCurrent Total: 190
\nOpening Moneyline: SA -385 \/ NJ +325
\nCurrent Moneyline: SA -400 \/ NJ +300<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Nets will need another big game out of Brook Lopez to win tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Long at last, San Antonio’s 9 game “Rodeo” trip is over tonight in New Jersey, and all things considered, the trip was a smashing success.\u00a0 The Spurs have won 6 of their last 7 and just blew out Washington, giving them a chance to rest the starters for tonight’s game against New Jersey.\u00a0 Ginobili said as much, \u201cIt\u2019s huge for us,\u201d Ginobili said. \u201cWe earned ourselves the possibility to rest a little bit, and it\u2019s well-needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last game it was New Jersey who had the streak when these two teams met.\u00a0 The difference is that it was a 14 game losing streak.\u00a0 That night, Brook Lopez came up big and the Nets won 90-84.\u00a0 The Spurs are 26-4 though against the Eastern Conference and they are 20-7 on the road.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 13 of the Spurs’ last 19 games and the total has gone OVER In 4 of their last 5 games.\u00a0 San Antonio is 16-3 SU in their las 19 games and 5-1 SU In their last 6 road games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 6 of San Antonio’s last 7 against New Jersey.\u00a0 San Antonio is 15-1 SU in their last 16 against the Nets and San Antonio is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 against New Jersey.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 8 of San Antonio’s last 11 road games in New Jersey and San Antonio is 7-1 SU in their last 8 games on the road in New jersey.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the Nets’ last 5 games and New Jersey is 8-17 SU in their last 25.\u00a0 New Jersey is 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of their last 7 against San Antonio.\u00a0 New Jersey is 1-15 SU in their last 16 games against the Spurs and they are 5-13 ATS in their last 18 against San Antonio.\u00a0 New Jersey is 1-9 ATS in their last 10 at home against the Spurs and the total has gone UNDER in 8 of their last 11 at home against San Antonio.\u00a0 New Jersey is 1-7 SU in their last 8 home games against the Spurs.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/p>\n

Derrick Favors & Brook Lopez vs. Tim Duncan & DeJuan Blair<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m willing to bet Duncan matches up on Lopez.\u00a0 Lopez went for 22 points and 10 boards last time the teams met, and the result was a Nets’ victory.\u00a0 Popovich will look to apply more pressure to Lopez and force New Jersey’s outside shooters to shoot.\u00a0 Favors had his career high of 14 rebounds last game and is starting to come into his own.\u00a0 DeJuan Blair is a rebounder in his own right, though, and these four players will mix it up underneath the hoop.\u00a0 Both teams are going to rely heavily on their rebounders, especially New Jersey since they shoot a league worst 44.1% from the floor.\u00a0 Lopez hasn’t been good on the boards after averaging nearly 2 rebounds more a game in his first two seasons and if the Nets are to have any chance he’s going to have to pull down more than 5 boards.
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\nDevin Harris vs. Tony Parker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both players have been an on All-Star teams in the past, but failed to make the cut this year.\u00a0 Parker has been as good as he’s ever been, averaging 17.3 points per game and 6.7 assists per game in 32 minutes of action a night.\u00a0 Though Devin Harris is only listed as 1″ taller than Parker, it doesn’t really look that way on the court and he’ll have to utilize his height advantage on the smaller Parker.\u00a0 Harris is averaging 15.1 points per game and 7.7 assists while shooting 42.6% from the floor.\u00a0 He takes a lot of bad shots, but the Nets need him to – to bail them out of shot clock buzzers or to take shots when no one else is willing to.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting that the Nets are 8.5 point underdogs in light of the fact that they won the last meeting between the teams.\u00a0 Moreover, they are at home tonight, and while a 13-14 home record isn’t particularly intimidating, they do have closer games at home and could cover tonight’s spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs AT New Jersey Nets Feb 14, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 SA -8.5 Current Line:\u00a0 SA -8 Opening Total: 191 Current Total: 190 Opening Moneyline: SA -385 \/ NJ +325 Current Moneyline: SA -400 \/ NJ +300 Long at last, San Antonio’s 9 game “Rodeo” trip is over tonight in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3177,1849,3176,1223,141,3350,1029],"class_list":["post-13379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-brook-lopez","tag-derrick-favors","tag-devin-harris","tag-new-jersey-nets","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan","tag-tony-parker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379","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=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13381,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions\/13381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}