{"id":13552,"date":"2011-02-22T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13552"},"modified":"2011-02-22T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T11:10:08","slug":"bay-area-battle-boston-celtics-at-golden-state-warriors-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/bay-area-battle-boston-celtics-at-golden-state-warriors-betting-preview-13552\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Battle: Boston Celtics at Golden State Warriors Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics AT Golden State Warriors
\nFeb 22, 2011 at 10:30 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Boston -4.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Boston -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 197
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 198.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Bos -200 \/ GSW +170
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Bos -190 \/ GSW +171<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Curry and Rondo will go at it hard tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite having been one of the league’s better road teams over the past three seasons, the lowly Golden State Warriors have nothing but victories at home against Boston since the “Big 3” era began in 2007-08.\u00a0 The Celtics will attempt to end a 6 game losing streak at Oracle Arena tonight.\u00a0 The Celtics are 15-9 on the road this season; there are only 6 teams with more road wins, but when the Celtics are giving up 107.0 points per game over the last 3 games in Oracle, it’s difficult to win, even if the offense is good.<\/p>\n

Four of the Celtics’ five starters played in the All-Star game this last weekend, and Golden State did not have a representative in the West.\u00a0 Perhaps while the Warriors’ core of Stephen Curry, Monta Ellis, and David Lee are very good (Lee in fact made the all star team last year), their lack of overall team success hurt their respective chances at making the squad.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total hasg one UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games and Boston is 12-5 SU in their last 17 games.\u00a0 Boston is 2-5 ATS in their last 7 on the road and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of Boston’s last 8 road games.\u00a0 Boston is 15-8 SU in their last 23 games on the road.\u00a0 Boston is 3-6 SU in their last 9 against Golden State and Boston is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 against Golden State.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 6\u00a0 of Boston’s last 8 games against the Warriors and Boston is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games on the road against Golden State.\u00a0 Boston is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games on the road at Golden State.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Golden State’s last 9 games and they are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 Golden State is 6-1 SU in their last 7 home games and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of Golden State’s last 7 games at home.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 13 of Golden State’s last 19 games at home and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of their last 8 games against Boston.\u00a0 Golden State is 6-3 SU in their last 9 against the Celtics and Golden State is 5-0 SU in their last 5 home games against Boston.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/p>\n

Kevin Garnett vs David Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Lee’s numbers are down in every statistical category from last year, and this is the first year in his career that he has been under 50% from the field.\u00a0 Garnett has done just the opposite and is having his best season since 2007-08, his first as a Celtic.\u00a0 Garnett turns 35 this May and the sheer number of miles on his knees are starting to wear him thin, but he has the toughness to grit out a couple more seasons past this one.\u00a0 He’s played nearly 1200 regular season games at an average of nearly 37 minutes a night over his 16 year NBA career.\u00a0 He’ll go down as one of the greatest power forwards ever, and in his prime, he may have been the best ever.\u00a0 Lee is actually a better player than Garnett now, but only because of Garnett’s age.\u00a0 He’s been effective over a long span of time and like Duncan, will remain relevant until he retires.<\/p>\n

Ray Allen vs Monta Ellis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ellis ranks 5th in the league in scoring with 25.3 points per game, but of the shooting guards out there, Ray Allen is one with one of the better chances at slowing Ellis.\u00a0 Allen has the stamina to stay with Ellis all over the court for big minutes and that’s really the key to covering Ellis – just maintaining a steady effort over the full period of the game.\u00a0 Ellis is going to get his, and he will score more than 20 most nights, but by simply sticking with him and consistently getting a hand up, Ray Allen should be able to prevent Ellis from having a huge night, and consequently Golden State sneaking out another victory.<\/p>\n

Though Boston is favored for tonight’s game, their lack of success in Golden State is worrysome.\u00a0 Golden State has the tools to score against even Boston’s stingy offense and that alone will give them a great shot at winning tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics AT Golden State Warriors Feb 22, 2011 at 10:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Boston -4.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Boston -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 197 Current Total:\u00a0 198.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Bos -200 \/ GSW +170 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Bos -190 \/ GSW +171 Despite having been one of the league’s better road teams over the past three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[120,1011],"class_list":["post-13552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-boston-celtics","tag-golden-state-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552","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=13552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13553,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions\/13553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}