{"id":13992,"date":"2011-03-09T16:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13992"},"modified":"2011-03-09T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T21:33:34","slug":"magic-in-sac-town-orlando-magic-at-sacramento-kings-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/magic-in-sac-town-orlando-magic-at-sacramento-kings-betting-preview-13992\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic in Sac-Town: Orlando Magic at Sacramento Kings Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic AT Sacramento Kings<\/strong>
\nMar 9, 2011 at 10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Orlando -8.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Orlando -9<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 206<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 203.5<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline: Orl -475 \/ Sac +395<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline: Orl -525 \/ Sac +425<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dwight Howard is coming back from his one game suspension tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sacramento has been continuing to plod along without their best player, guard Tyreke Evans.\u00a0 It hasn’t stopped DeMarcus Cousins from stepping up in his absense.\u00a0 Over the last three games Cousins is averaging 22.0 points per game and 13.3 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He continues to struggle with efficiency and turnovers, but one would have to figure that will come in time.<\/p>\n

Even with Cousins’ outstanding play over the last three games, Sacramento has lost all three of them and they are tied for the 2nd worst record in the league.\u00a0 Their 8-24 home record attests to that, as many poor teams fail to even play well at home.<\/p>\n

Dwight Howard will be returning after serving a one game suspension due to excessive technical fouls.\u00a0 Orlando struggled in his absense, but has still won 4 of their last 6 games.\u00a0 Orlando currently sits at 4th in the Eastern Conference and if the playoffs began today the Magic would be facing the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Orlando’s last 6 games and the Magic are 4-2 SU in their last 6.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Orlando’s last 6 road games and the Magic are 5-1 SU in their last 6 against the Kings.\u00a0 Orlando is 3-12 SU in their last 15 road games against Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 10 of Sacramento’s last 11 games and they are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games.\u00a0 Sacramento is 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games and they are 1-7 SU in their last 8 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of Sacramento’s last 7 games at home and they are 1-5 SU in their last 6 against the Orlando Magic.\u00a0 Sacramento is 1-5 ATS in their last 6 against the Magic and they are 1-3-1 ATS in their last 5 at home against the Magic.\u00a0 Sacramento is 12-3 SU in their last 15 games at home against the Magic.<\/p>\n

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

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

Rookies often struggle defensively and they struggle most against the best offensive players of course, of which Howard is one.\u00a0 Last game against the Kings, Howard went for 31 points and 17 boards and it figures to be more of the same tonight.\u00a0 Howard will be challenged defensively by Cousins, but given Dwight’s propensity to block shots and body up opposing bigs, Cousins may not have a big game tonight.\u00a0 Cousins has been playing incredible basketball of late and has had a decent rookie season, but has a long way to go to improve his shot selection and decision making up to decent levels.\u00a0 Last game against the Magic Cousins scored just 9 points and shot only 2 of 7 from the floor.\u00a0 For the Kings to win without Tyreke Evans, they are going to need a monster game from Cousins and near perfection from everyone else.<\/p>\n

Jameer Nelson & Gilbert Arenas vs. Beno Udrih<\/strong><\/p>\n

Udrih has quietly been a decent starting point guard over the last four seasons.\u00a0 During that span he has averaged 12.7 points per game and he is putting up a career high 13.8 points per game this year.\u00a0 His shooting percentages are very solid (49.5% FG, 35.9% threes) and he’s averaged 4.7 assists per game over the past three seasons, as well.\u00a0 He’ll have trouble with Jameer Nelson and Gilbert Arenas though, who are both shoot first point guards thta will challenge the slow footed Udrih on defense.\u00a0 If Udrih can apply decent pressure and limit penetration, his problems may solve themselves.\u00a0 Last game Nelson and Arenas combined for 11 turnovers, and if the Kings can push the Magic to make that many mistakes again they have a decent shot at winning this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic AT Sacramento Kings Mar 9, 2011 at 10 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Orlando -8.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Orlando -9 Opening Total:\u00a0 206 Current Total:\u00a0 203.5 Opening Moneyline: Orl -475 \/ Sac +395 Current Moneyline: Orl -525 \/ Sac +425 Sacramento has been continuing to plod along without their best player, guard Tyreke Evans.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1912,833,659,582],"class_list":["post-13992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-dwight-howard","tag-orlando-magic","tag-sacramento-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992","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=13992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13994,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions\/13994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}