{"id":15296,"date":"2011-05-06T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15296"},"modified":"2011-05-06T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:49:27","slug":"game-3-chicago-bulls-at-atlanta-hawks-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/game-3-chicago-bulls-at-atlanta-hawks-betting-preview-15296\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 3: Chicago Bulls At Atlanta Hawks Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game 3:\u00a0 Chicago Bulls AT Atlanta Hawks<\/strong>
\nMay 6, 2011 at 7 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 CHI -2.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 CHI -2.5<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 CHI -140, ATL +120<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 CHI -140, ATL +120<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 178<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 178<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series Tied 1-1<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bulls
Noah came up with 14 of Chicago's 58 rebounds on Thursday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Bulls fought back to win game two after dropping the first at home against the Hawks.\u00a0 The Bulls led 48-37 at the half and went on to win by 13, 86-73.\u00a0 While Joe Johnson and Jamal Crawford combined for only 27 points, Jeff Teague went crazy, scoring 21 points on 14 attempts from the field with 6 of 7 from the line.\u00a0 He also came up with three steals and did not turn the ball over the entire game.\u00a0 After remarking that I never saw the value in Teague, I am now seeing why Atlanta was high on the kid going into this season.\u00a0 He possesses a unique ability to get through traffic and still shoot high percentage shots.\u00a0 He gets to the line a lot for a point guard, and he plays good defense.\u00a0 It’s possible that in a couple years time he supplants Hinrich as the starter, or even sooner than that.<\/p>\n

Teague’s heroics were not enough, however, and though he put up a valiant scoring effort, Derrick Rose did manage 25, though it took him 27 attempts from the field to do it.\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Thibodeau is not completely\u00a0 pleased with Derrick Rose’s shot selection.\u00a0 He wants to see more aggression offensively.\u00a0 \u201cI want to see him attack. He has to get to the line more,\u201d coach Thibodeau said. \u201cWe have to create more space. We have to play with more pace. When we can get Derrick into the open floor, he has more scenes where he can get to the rim.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luol Deng once again outplayed Josh Smith, proving that my “even” diagnosis on the matchup may have been a bit off.\u00a0 Deng has appeared to be the more mature and composed player, while Josh Smith has forced bad shot after bad shot and he launched 2 threes in Game 2.\u00a0 While Smith shot a respectable 33.1% from three this year, there are better options for the Hawks offensively and over his career he is a 28.2% three point shooter.\u00a0 This year in the playoffs he is 3 of 18 from behind the arc, a stellar 16.7%.\u00a0 He’s going to have to remember he is the best athlete on the court and tailor his offensive game accordingly.<\/p>\n

The Hawks are feeling good about their chances, especially given the job Teague has done on Derrick Rose.\u00a0 Jamal Crawford feels like the Hawks “(already) took their (Chicago’s) best punch.”\u00a0 The Hawks have been playing their “small lineup” and it may have hurt them on Thursday night.\u00a0 The Bulls out rebounded them 58-39 and out hustled them to every loose ball.<\/p>\n

Atlanta coach Larry Drew spoke on the effect of the loss.\u00a0 \u201cWhatever doubt might have been seeping into our guys\u2019 heads, that doubt was erased after Game 1,\u201d Drew said. \u201cEven though we lost Game 2, there wasn\u2019t a knockout blow. There was all this talk about how they would come out with all this energy and everything. Well, we didn\u2019t feel that. \u2026 They didn\u2019t put us away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Chicago’s last 13 games and the Bulls are 14-2 SU in their last 16 games.\u00a0 The Bulls are 8-1 SU in their last 9 on the road and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of the Bulls’ last 5 games on the road.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 9 of the last 13 games against the Hawks and the Bulls are 4-9 SU in their last 13 games against Atlanta.\u00a0 The Bulls are 4-8 ATS in their last 12 against the Hawks and the total has gone OVER in 7 of Chicago’s last 9 games on the road in Atlanta.\u00a0 Chicago is 1-6 SU in their last 7 road games against the Hawks and the Bulls are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games against Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Atlanta’s last 7 games and the Hawks are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games.\u00a0 The Hawks are 6-2 SU in their last 8 at home and the total has gone UNDER In all 5 of Atlanta’s last 5 home games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 9 of Atlanta’s last 13 games against the Bulls and the Hawks are 9-4 SU in their last 13 games against the Bulls.\u00a0 The Hawks are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games at home against the Bulls and the total has gone OVER in 7 of Atlanta’s last 9 games at home against the Bulls.<\/p>\n

Given the nature of the first two games, this game should represent a transition and change for both teams.\u00a0 Derrick Rose is going to have to get more aggressive and as I wrote last time, the Bulls need more from Carlos Boozer.\u00a0 They found a way to win despite Boozer managing only 8 points on 4 of 12 shooting with no free throws attempted.\u00a0 He did pull down 11 boards, but he needs to put up his usual 20 for the Bulls to have their best chance at victory.\u00a0 Atlanta’s backcourt will have to revert to the dominance they showed in game 1 for Atlanta to pull this off.\u00a0 Teague also must continue to attack and make Derrick Rose work on defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Game 3:\u00a0 Chicago Bulls AT Atlanta Hawks May 6, 2011 at 7 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 CHI -2.5 Current Line:\u00a0 CHI -2.5 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 CHI -140, ATL +120 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 CHI -140, ATL +120 Opening Total:\u00a0 178 Current Total:\u00a0 178 Series Tied 1-1 The Bulls fought back to win game two after dropping the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[834,174,521,4357,4912,2897,3276],"class_list":["post-15296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-derrick-rose","tag-jamal-crawford","tag-jeff-teague","tag-joe-johnson","tag-josh-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296","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=15296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15298,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions\/15298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}