{"id":13597,"date":"2011-02-23T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13597"},"modified":"2011-02-23T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T20:12:43","slug":"royal-blowout-sacramento-kings-at-orlando-magic-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/royal-blowout-sacramento-kings-at-orlando-magic-betting-predictions-13597\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Blowout: Sacramento Kings at Orlando Magic Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento Kings AT Orlando Magic
\nFeb 23, 2011 at 7 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Orlando -12.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Orlando -14
\nOpening Total: 201
\nCurrent Total: 204.5
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Orl -1300 \/ Sac +850
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Orl -1800 \/ +1100<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Orlando finally found a way to get things going just before the All-Star break, struggling along at below a .500 pace for a stretch, the Magic rallied to win 4 of their last 5 heading into the break.\u00a0 Continuing that success shouldn’t be much of a problem against the lowly Kings, who have been playing without their best player, combo guard Tyreke Evans.<\/p>\n

Orlando has won 10 of their last 11 against teams under .500 and Sacramento easily falls into that category.\u00a0 Taking care of business against the lowly teams in the league takes focus, something that veteran teams or Stan Van Gundy coached teams tend to exhibit.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll be anxious to see how we come out and play down the stretch,\u201d Van Gundy said.<\/p>\n

Whether or not the Magic are true contenders, they must play like they are down the stretch if they are going to continue going on with their current nucleus.\u00a0 Without a deep run in the playoffs, Otis Smith may shake things up in an attempt to please Dwight Howard, who can opt out of his contract in 2012.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Sacramento is 1-8 SU in their last 9 games and 4-18 SU in their last 22 road games.\u00a0 Sacramento is 0-5 SU in their last 5 against Orlando and 0-5 ATS in their last 5 against the Magic.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 6 of their last 9 against Orlando and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 5 road games against Orlando.\u00a0 Sacramento is 1-5 SU in their last 6 games against Orlando on the road and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 when on the road against Orlando.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER In 5 of Orlando’s last 6 games and the Magic are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 9 of the Magic’s last 12 games at home and Orlando is 12-3 SU in their last 15 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 6 of the Magic’s last 9 against Sacramento and Orlando is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games against Sacramento.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the Magic’s last 5 at home against Sacramento and Orlando is 5-1 SU in their last 6 at home against Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DeMarcus Cousins vs. Dwight Howard<\/p>\n

While Dwight Howard is certainly the better of these two, Cousins is going to be a premier big man, and could eventually eclipse Andrew Bynum as the most offensively talented big in the Western Conference.\u00a0 Howard has had no problems with Sacramento over his career, averaging 20.3 points per game (2.3 above his career average) and 14.0 rebounds (1.2 above his career average).\u00a0 If Howard gets Cousins into foul trouble, which is very possible, backup Samuel Dalembert will see extended minutes.\u00a0 Dalembert has the athleticism to stay with Dwight, but lacks the strength to keep Dwight from powering in towards the goal.\u00a0 Either way, it’s inexperience or ineptitude that will keep the Kings from keeping Howard in check.<\/p>\n

Omri Casspi vs. Hedo Turkoglu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Casspi is almost a Hedo-like prodigy.\u00a0 The similarities are certainly there.\u00a0 Both are capable of making plays and are tall mismatches for most small forwards.\u00a0 If Casspi continues to develop, he could eventually be as good as Hedo has been at his best.\u00a0 Hedo has experienced a renaissance in his return to Orlando.\u00a0 He’s not scoring a lot (under 11 a game), but he is getting 5.3 assists per game and 4.7 boards, and often facilitates easy shots for Dwight Howard.\u00a0 Casspi is averaging 9.4 points per game, 1.0 assists and 4.7 rebounds.\u00a0 He’ll have to learn to handle the ball better to ever be as good as Hedo, but the possibility is there.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game really shouldn’t be that close.\u00a0 The Magic have the Kings out matched at every position and Sacramento already played last night in Miami.\u00a0 Expect the Magic to be fresher and just flat out better and win this one by double digits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sacramento Kings AT Orlando Magic Feb 23, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Orlando -12.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Orlando -14 Opening Total: 201 Current Total: 204.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Orl -1300 \/ Sac +850 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Orl -1800 \/ +1100 Orlando finally found a way to get things going just before the All-Star break, struggling along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":13599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1912,833,910,3348,659,582],"class_list":["post-13597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-dwight-howard","tag-hedo-turkoglu","tag-omri-casspi","tag-orlando-magic","tag-sacramento-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597","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=13597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13600,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597\/revisions\/13600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}