{"id":15365,"date":"2011-05-10T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15365"},"modified":"2011-05-10T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:55:01","slug":"swing-game-game-5-betting-preview-of-atlanta-hawks-at-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/swing-game-game-5-betting-preview-of-atlanta-hawks-at-chicago-bulls-15365\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing Game: Game 5 Betting Preview of Atlanta Hawks at Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks AT Chicago Bulls<\/strong>
\nMay 10, 2011 8 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 CHI -9<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 CHI -9<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 CHI -575, ATL +475<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 CHI -500, ATL +400<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 181<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 181<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series Tied 2-2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Josh Smith nearly had a triple double in game 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Derrick Rose once again scored a lot of points in game four, 32 of them in fact, but it took him 32 field gaol attempts to do it, 2 more attempts taken the rest of the starting lineup COMBINED.\u00a0 And it wasn’t just the scoring in which he seemed to be alone in, he also felt his team was outplayed and outhustled all game.\u00a0 \u201cThey just played harder, getting to loose balls, second effort, chasing balls down,\u201d Rose commented in frustration.<\/p>\n

Rose and the Bulls know it will take a much more refined effort to take a crucial game five.\u00a0 If they come out flat again in Game 5, it will push them to the brink of elimination to the 5th seeded Hawks, who have surpassed everyones’ expectations after disposing of the 4th seeded Magic in 6 games and now pushing the Bulls in a series that may go 7 games.\u00a0 It’s been a lot of success from a team that only finished 3 games above .500 in the regular season.\u00a0 Jamal Crawford takes the approach that it is now a “three game series.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do feel like that,\u201d Crawford commented.\u00a0 \u201cSure other teams feel like that as well. Right now, it\u2019s just a three-game series. Who thought we\u2019d be here at this point? \u2026 I like our chances. But I\u2019m sure every other team like theirs as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the must win nature of game 5s in tied series, Derrick Rose doesn’t feel like the pressure is on his Bulls.\u00a0 \u201cIf anything, I think that all of us are mad with the effort that we put in the last game,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t good enough. Tomorrow, we\u2019re playing back in our building. The atmosphere is going to be unbelievable, and we\u2019re just going to have to play….\u201cI was just missing shots,\u201d he said. \u201cLooking at film, I missed a ton of layups\u2014layups I normally don\u2019t miss. It wasn\u2019t like I was taking a whole bunch of crazy shots or a whole bunch of jump shots. Those were shots that I normally make. My confidence is still high. My teammates, they trust me. I have confidence when I\u2019m taking shots, and I\u2019m going to continue to.\u201d<\/p>\n

After being outplayed in games 1 and 2, Josh Smith has outplayed Deng in games 3 & 4.\u00a0 Earlier in the series, I said that this matchup was going to prove crucial with the teams so deadlocked.\u00a0 Both small forwards are X-factors on their respective teams due to their inconsistency and also their potential.\u00a0 Josh Smith nearly had a triple double in game 4, finishing with 23 points, 16 rebounds, and 8 assists.\u00a0 \u201cI just went out there played my game, played with a ton of confidence,\u201d said Smith.\u00a0 \u201cJust rolled with the tidal wave with the crowd. And we got it done last night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Atlanta’s last 20 games and the total has also gone UNDER in 5 of Atlanta’s last 7 games on the road.\u00a0 The Hawks are 2-7 SU in their last 9 on the road and they are 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games against the Bulls.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 4 of Atlanta’s last 5 games against the Bulls.\u00a0 The Hawks are 2-4 SU in their last 6 against the Bulls and the Hawks are 10-5 SU in their last 15 games against the Bulls.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 5 of Atlanta’s last 7 games on the road against the Bulls, while the Hawks are 4-10 SU in their last 14 on the road against Chicago.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games and the Bulls are 15-3 SU in their last 18 games.\u00a0 The Bulls are 22-2 SU in their last 14 at home and 3-8 ATS in their last 11 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games against Atlanta and the Bulls are 5-10 SU in their last 15 games against Atlanta.\u00a0 Chicago is 4-2 SU in their last 6 against the Hawks and the total has gone OVER\u00a0 in 5 of the last 7 home games against Atlanta.\u00a0 Chicago is 10-4 SU in their last 14 at home against the Hawks.<\/p>\n

Given Chicago’s success at home, it’s easy to understand why the line could plausibly be set at 9 points in their favor.\u00a0 However, it is a series that is tied 2-2 and the Hawks have seemingly found a way not to stop Derrick Rose but to make him inefficient.\u00a0 Teague must continue to push Rose defensively by driving to the hoop a lot.\u00a0 Rose can’t be expended to the max on both ends if the Bulls are going to win this game — and series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks AT Chicago Bulls May 10, 2011 8 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 CHI -9 Current Line:\u00a0 CHI -9 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 CHI -575, ATL +475 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 CHI -500, ATL +400 Opening Total:\u00a0 181 Current Total:\u00a0 181 Series Tied 2-2 Derrick Rose once again scored a lot of points in game four, 32 of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[834,174,521,3276],"class_list":["post-15365","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-josh-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365","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=15365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15366,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions\/15366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}