{"id":13838,"date":"2011-03-04T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13838"},"modified":"2011-03-04T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:25:40","slug":"steph-curry-vs-rajon-rondo-betting-preview-of-golden-state-at-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/steph-curry-vs-rajon-rondo-betting-preview-of-golden-state-at-boston-celtics-13838\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Curry vs. Rajon Rondo: Betting Preview of Golden State at Boston Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golden State Warriors AT Boston Celtics<\/strong>
\nMar 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Boston -10.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Boston -9.5<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 201.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 204<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Bos -550 \/ GS +450<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Bos -560 \/ GS +360<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Boston’s frontline has went through numerous changes of late, but perhaps the worst change of all was the notice that Glen Davis would be missing some time with a plantar facia issue in his foot.\u00a0 It will mean that newly acquired Troy Murphy will have to learn the offense quicker and be willing and able to take on more minutes.\u00a0 Murphy didn’t do much in his debut with the Celtics, but that is excuseable.\u00a0 By the time the NBA playoffs start, he should be finely tuned and serve a good purpose for the Celtics.<\/p>\n

The Warriors’ Stephen Curry has got things together recently.\u00a0 Over his past 3 games he is averaging 27.3 points per game while shooting 29 of 56 from the floor.\u00a0 Prior to the last three games he hadn’t seen over 30 minutes since February 13th, but evne with his strong play of late, the Warriors have wlost 4 of their last 5.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Golden State is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER in 11 of Golden State’s last 14 games.\u00a0 Golden State is 1-4 SU in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of Golden State’s last 5 road games.\u00a0 Golden State is 6-18 SU in their last 24 on the road and the total has gone UNDER In 6 orf Golden State’s last 9 games against Boston.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Golden State’s last 10 games on the road against the Celtics and the Warriors are 1-6 SU in their last 7 road games against the Celtics.<\/p>\n

Boston is 6-1 SU in their last 7 games and the total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games at home and the total has gone OVER In 10 of their last 15 at home.\u00a0 Boston is 21-4 SU in their last 25 home games and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of Boston’s last 9 games against the Warriors.\u00a0 Boston is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games against the Warriors and the Celtics are 6-1 SU in their last 7 home games against the Warriors.\u00a0 Boston is 2-8 ATS In their last 10 games against Golden State and the total has gone UNDER In 7 of the last 10 games at home against the Warriors.<\/p>\n

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

Stephen Curry vs. Rajon Rondo<\/strong><\/p>\n

A matchup of two of the best young point guards in the game.\u00a0 Curry never really appeared to look like a true point guard, but he has sure managed to play like one since becoming one in his transition into the NBA.\u00a0 Curry has averaged 5.8 assists per game to go with his 18.7 points per game.\u00a0 He also plays good defense, getting 1.7 steals per contest and he can be relied upon to hit free throws in close games (93.1%).\u00a0 Rondo’s 12.2 assists per game lead the NBA, but he is scoring the lowest he has since his second season in the league (07-08).\u00a0 His field goal percentage is still outstanding (50.8%), but he is taking nearly 2 shots less per game than last season and is much closer to his attempts in 07-08.\u00a0 Rondo needs to look to score more, as defenses are going to begin laying off him and attempting to force him to shoot jumpers.\u00a0 If he can remain aggressive, he will be able to thwart that strategy thoroughly.\u00a0 Rondo is also a theft on defense, averaging 2.38 a game, only a fraction behind Chris Paul for the lead.<\/p>\n

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

The other half of the backcourt matchup is also interesting tonight.\u00a0 Ellis is 7th in the league in scoring with 24.6 points per game.\u00a0 He attempts over 20 shots on average and attempts nearly 6 free throws per game as well.\u00a0 Ray Allen, despite being nearly 36, has not slowed down at all, nor has Rivers let him.\u00a0 He’s still seeing 36 minutes per night and shooting above 50% from the floor and over 46% from three.\u00a0 His scoring average is shy of his career average of 20.4, but it is about as high as it has been since he came to Boston.\u00a0 He’s been in the league now for 16 seasons and he should last another 4 until he is 40.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s backcourt matchups will determine the fate of the game.\u00a0 The best players on Golden State’s team are their guards and the Celtics match up very favorably with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Golden State Warriors AT Boston Celtics Mar 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Boston -10.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Boston -9.5 Opening Total: 201.5 Current Total: 204 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Bos -550 \/ GS +450 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Bos -560 \/ GS +360 Boston’s frontline has went through numerous changes of late, but perhaps the worst change […]<\/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":[120,1011,465,197,1555,14],"class_list":["post-13838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-boston-celtics","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-monta-ellis","tag-rajon-rondo","tag-ray-allen","tag-stephen-curry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13838","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=13838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13839,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13838\/revisions\/13839"}],"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=13838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}