{"id":13834,"date":"2011-03-04T12:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13834"},"modified":"2011-03-04T12:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:18:58","slug":"unlikely-rivals-meet-again-charlotte-bobcats-at-los-angeles-lakers-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/unlikely-rivals-meet-again-charlotte-bobcats-at-los-angeles-lakers-betting-preview-13834\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlikely Rivals Meet Again: Charlotte Bobcats at Los Angeles Lakers Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Bobcats AT Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>
\nMar 4, 2011 at 10:30 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 L.A. -12.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 LA. -12<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 191.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 189<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 LA -1100 \/ Cha +750<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 LA -1200 \/ Cha +800<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kobe has averaged nearly 30 a game over his career against the Bobcats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tonight’s game brings together two unlikely rivals in the Bobcats and Lakers.\u00a0 The Bobcats have absolutely owned the Lakers in the last 4 seasons, amassing a 8-2 record against the Lakers for the last 5 seasons.<\/p>\n

If the playoffs started today, Charlotte would be on the outside looking in as they are still 3.5 games behind 8th seeded Indiana.\u00a0 The Bobcats have split their last 10 games but have lost their last 2.\u00a0 The Lakers have won 5 straight, and 7 of their last 10.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of Charlotte’s last 6 games and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of Charlotte’s last 8 games on the road.\u00a0 Charlotte is 1-4 SU in their last 5 games on the road and they are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games against the Lakers.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER in 15 of the last 22 Laker home games. The Lakers are 10-3 SU in their last 13 games at home and 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games at home.\u00a0 LA is 1-5 SU in their last 6 games against the Bobcats and they are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 against the Bobcats. LA is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 home games against the Bobcats.<\/p>\n

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

Stephen Jackson vs Kobe Bryant<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Kobe certainly is the best player in this matchup, don’t sleep on Captain Jack.\u00a0 Jackson has averaged 15.6 points per game, 3.4 assists per game, and 3.1 rebounds per game over his career against the Lakers.\u00a0 While the Lakers have struggled against the Bobcats recently, over his career Kobe has been good against Charlotte with averages of 29.8 points per game, 5.0 rebounds per game, and 4.3 assists.\u00a0 He was held to 20 the last time the teams met and he shot just 8 of 20 from the floor in that game.\u00a0 Jackson has the length and speed to give Kobe problems on the offensive end of the court.\u00a0 Jackson will pressure Kobe and do a good job of getting a hand in his face on jumpers, and sometimes that is enough to slow Bryant down.\u00a0 Other times it doesn’t matter if a hand is up at all, he’s going to hit.<\/p>\n

Kwame Brown vs Pau Gasol<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kwame is having one of the better seasons of his career, and is over 7 points per game for his first time since 06-07.\u00a0 It’s hard to believe he’s been in the league for 11 seasons now since Jordan made him the first overall pick of the 2001 NBA draft.\u00a0 His best season came as a Wizard, in his third season in the league, when he averaged 10.9 points per game and 7.4 rebounds.\u00a0 Gasol has been historically far better than that, of course.\u00a0 Gasol has been steady.\u00a0 His scoring average is up slightly over last season, while his rebounding numbers are slightly down.\u00a0 He’s more or less the “1 B” option behind Kobe, as he often outscores Bryant now.\u00a0 As the Lakers, and Bryant, continue to evolve, Pau will probably become even more involved in the offense.<\/p>\n

63% of bettors have bet on the Bobcats to cover tonight’s spread.\u00a0 Given their success over the Lakers, it seems like a very reasonable and good bet to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Bobcats AT Los Angeles Lakers Mar 4, 2011 at 10:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 L.A. -12.5 Current Line:\u00a0 LA. -12 Opening Total:\u00a0 191.5 Current Total:\u00a0 189 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 LA -1100 \/ Cha +750 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 LA -1200 \/ Cha +800 Tonight’s game brings together two unlikely rivals in the Bobcats and Lakers.\u00a0 The Bobcats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":3957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[87,67,68,909],"class_list":["post-13834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-charlotte-bobcats","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-pau-gasol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834","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=13834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13837,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions\/13837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}