{"id":13555,"date":"2011-02-22T09:41:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13555"},"modified":"2011-02-22T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:41:46","slug":"nba-handicapping-atlanta-hawks-at-los-angeles-lakers-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-handicapping-atlanta-hawks-at-los-angeles-lakers-betting-predictions-13555\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Handicapping: Atlanta Hawks at Los Angeles Lakers Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks at Los Angeles Lakers
\nTuesday, 2\/22\/11, 10:30 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 190
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 189<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Lakers will look to get past their recent struggles on the road with a home game against Atlanta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atlanta dropped three of its last four games heading into the All-Star break and will look to improve upon its fifth place positioning in the Eastern conference race.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of work to do, a lot of things we need to clean up and we will do that,\u201d said coach Larry Drew.\u00a0 \u201cThis league can do that to you when you don\u2019t stick to what you know and what works for you.\u201d\u00a0 The Hawks dropped a 102-90 decision in their final game before the break against the Knicks, as they never seemed to get things going in the contest.\u00a0 The team enters tonight\u2019s game with a 34-21 overall record and a 17-12 road mark.\u00a0 With its 17-12 record, Atlanta has the fifth-most road wins in the NBA and will be looking to finish over .500 away from home for the first time since the 1997-98 campaign.\u00a0 The squad is 9-7 ATS as an underdog this season and currently getting points on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Hawks have been a remarkably consistent team in terms of tallying winning months, finishing January with a 9-4 mark, which happened to be their 14th consecutive winning month.\u00a0 Atlanta is also getting it done on the offensive end, ranking ninth in the league in field goal percentage and sixth at the free throw line.\u00a0 The team will need to use those statistics to gain confidence against Tuesday\u2019s opponent, as they\u2019ve dropped four straight to the Lakers in Los Angeles by an average of 15.2 points a contest.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles desperately needs a win against Atlanta due to a miserable finish to its seven-game road trip heading into the break.\u00a0 The Lakers actually picked up victories in the first four games, only to drop the final three, including a unthinkable 104-99 defeat in Cleveland.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s back to the drawing board,\u201d said forward Lamar Odom.\u00a0 \u201cDefense. Cohesiveness.\u00a0 Our chemistry on offense.\u00a0 I\u2019m not that worried.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s things we can fix.\u201d\u00a0 The team has compiled a 38-19 overall record and is currently 19-8 at home, including a 8-4 mark versus Eastern foes.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 9-20 ATS against Southeast division opponents the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Lakers split last season\u2019s series with Atlanta 1-1 for the third consecutive year.\u00a0 Los Angeles has not lost a season series to the Hawks since 1978-79, but have actually split the series in nine of the last 10 years.\u00a0 Under head coach Phil Jackson, the team is 12-8 against Atlanta, while star Kobe Bryant has averaged 22.6 points a game in 21 career games.\u00a0 He is coming off a spectacular performance in the 60th NBA All-Star Game, earning MVP honors with a game-high 37 points.<\/p>\n

Bettors are likely going to back the Lakers due to the home team being 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings, while the Hawks are 0-5 ATS versus the Western Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks at Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday, 2\/22\/11, 10:30 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 190 Current Total:\u00a0 189 Atlanta dropped three of its last four games heading into the All-Star break and will look to improve upon its fifth place positioning in the Eastern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[834,3622,67,68,3693],"class_list":["post-13555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-eastern-conference","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13557,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13555\/revisions\/13557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}