{"id":13877,"date":"2011-03-05T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13877"},"modified":"2011-03-05T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:17:40","slug":"a-cure-for-delta-center-woes-sacramento-kings-at-utah-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/a-cure-for-delta-center-woes-sacramento-kings-at-utah-jazz-13877\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cure for Delta Center Woes? – Sacramento Kings at Utah Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento Kings AT Utah Jazz<\/strong>
\nMar 5, 2011 at 9 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Utah -8.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line: Utah -7<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 206<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 208<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Uta -335 \/ Sac +285<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Uta -320 \/ Sac +260<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DeMarcus Cousins is slowly evolving to what Al Jefferson already is<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Jazz are making franchise history, or at least recent history, for how bad they have been at home.\u00a0 They’ve now dropped 7 straight at the Delta Center for the worst home losing streak since 1982.\u00a0 They’ve fallen to tenth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

Corbin wasn’t discouraged after a narrow loss to Denver.\u00a0 \u201cWe got a lot of ball left to play, (Thursday) is a prime example – as long as there\u2019s some time on the clock, you still have a chance to win the game,\u201d Corbin commented. \u201cWe never quit on the game, and as long as we don\u2019t do that, don\u2019t quit on each other, we got a chance to work our way out of this thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jazz are 1-6 since Sloan quit, and it is clear that a good era has come to an end.\u00a0 Corbin may or may not be a decent coach, but he’s no Jerry Sloan, and the Jazz are going to hurt until they land another big name coach, which may not happen any time soon.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Sacramento is 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games and the total has gone OVER in 8 of Sacramento’s last 9 games.\u00a0 Sacramento is 3-11 SU in their last 14 games and they are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games on the road.\u00a0 Sacramento is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 road games and the total has gone OVER in all 5 of their last 5 road games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 6 games against Utah and Sacramento is 2-7 SU in their last 9 against Utah.\u00a0 Sacramento is 1-6 SU in their last 7 road games against Utah and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of Sacramento’s last 5 games againts Utah.<\/p>\n

Utah is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of Utah’s last 9 games.\u00a0 Utah is 1-8 SU in their last 9 games and 0-5 SU in their last 5 at home.\u00a0 Utah is 0-5 ATS in their last 5 at home and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 6 against Sacramento.\u00a0 Utah is 7-2 SU in their last 9 against Sacramento and they are 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games against the Kings.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Utah’s last 5 games at home against the Kings and Utah is 6-1 SU in their last 7 at home against Sacramento.\u00a0 Utah is 8-16 ATS in their last 24 at home against the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n

Key Matchups:<\/p>\n

DeMarcus Cousins vs.\u00a0 Al Jefferson<\/p>\n

Both of these players are somewhat similar.\u00a0 They are not outstanding athletes, but are decent athletes, and both are very skilled and have good hands and good touch around the basket.\u00a0 Al Jefferson is actually probably a best case scenario for DeMarcus Cousins in terms of impact, though some project Cousins as an even better prospect.\u00a0 Cousins has to find a way to cut down on his turnovers.\u00a0 He’s averaging an astounding 3 turnovers in 27 minutes a game and his field goal percentage is anemic for a big too, at 42.9%\u00a0 He’s for sure a work in progress, but the Kings feel that along with Tyreke Evans, they have the core of what could be an imposing team down the line.\u00a0 Al Jefferson’s numbers are nowhere near what they were his first two years in Minnesota (07-08 & 08-09), but he’s still solid with 18 points per game and 9.2 boards.\u00a0 Prior to last game he had a 6 game streak of 20+ point games and other than a 4 point stinker against the Suns, he has had 19 or more in 13 of his last 14 games.<\/p>\n

Jason Thompson vs. Paul Millsap<\/p>\n

Thompson looked so promising last year, when he played in excess of 31 minutes a game and scored 12.5 points per game while coralling 8.5 rebounds per contest, but his minutes and production have both dipped this year, somewhat inexplicably.\u00a0 He’s only had 1 double double in his last 16 games and he has only shot 10 shots or more in 3 of his last 12 games.\u00a0 It’s difficult to score in double figures when attempting that few shots.\u00a0 Millsap has been great at times this year, but at other times quite average.\u00a0 He’s still forging his way as a starter in the NBA, but has had his moments, like his 46 point game against the Heat earlier this season.\u00a0\u00a0 He has scored 20 or more in 3 of his last 6 games and had a 34 point outing against Oklahoma City on February 5th.\u00a0 He must look to exploit Thompson on the offensive end.\u00a0 He’s quicker and has more moves around the hoop that he can use on the youngster.<\/p>\n

Utah is expected to pull out of their funk at home tonight.\u00a0 Sacramento is just the team they needed to encounter to snap the losing streak, as Sacramento without Tyreke Evans is pretty hapless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sacramento Kings AT Utah Jazz Mar 5, 2011 at 9 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Utah -8.5 Current Line: Utah -7 Opening Total: 206 Current Total: 208 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Uta -335 \/ Sac +285 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Uta -320 \/ Sac +260 The Jazz are making franchise history, or at least recent history, for how bad they […]<\/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":[1912,582,838],"class_list":["post-13877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877","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=13877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13878,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions\/13878"}],"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=13877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}