{"id":27379,"date":"2013-01-19T13:07:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27379"},"modified":"2013-01-19T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T18:07:05","slug":"nba-picks-milwaukee-bucks-vs-portland-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-milwaukee-bucks-vs-portland-trail-blazers-27379\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Milwaukee Bucks vs. Portland Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Bucks at Portland Trail Blazers
\nSaturday, 1\/19\/13, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FGW
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Portland -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Portland -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 195
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The OVER is 13-5 in the last 18 meetings between the Milwaukee Bucks and Portland Trail Blazers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Milwaukee has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, coming off a 98-94 victory over the Phoenix Suns as one-point road favorites Thursday night, while going UNDER the total in two consecutive games.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re winning,\u201d commented Bucks point guard Brandon Jennings.\u00a0 The Bucks have compiled a 4-2 record since assistant Jim Boylan replaced the fired Scott Skiles as coach last week.\u00a0 Jennings combines with backcourt mate Monta Ellis to score 37.2 points per game.\u00a0 Milwaukee is 3-15 ATS versus Northwest division opponents the last two-plus seasons, something to consider when making your pro basketball picks Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Bucks swept the Trail Blazers last season, including a resounding 116-87 victory as 3.5-point underdogs at the Rose Garden on March 20.\u00a0 Milwaukee ranks first in the NBA in averaging 7.71 blocks per game, with Larry Sanders leading the charge in that particular category.\u00a0 Offensively, the team should definitely find Mike Dunleavy on the perimeter, considering he\u2019s knocked down 13 of his last 22 shots from beyond the arc in the last five games.<\/p>\n

Portland has lost four games in a row, including a 93-88 setback to the Cleveland Cavaliers as six-point home favorites, while going UNDER the posted total of 197.5.\u00a0 \u201cWe had a chance to win, we should win this game,\u201d commented Trail Blazers guard Nicolas Batum, who finished with 23 points and 12 rebounds.\u00a0 The Trail Blazers haven\u2019t lost three straight games to the Bucks since the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons.\u00a0 The winning team in this series has scored 100 or more points in eight of the last 10 meetings.\u00a0 Portland is 0-3 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points this season, while the UNDER is 2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers were led by star forward LaMarcus Aldridge on the offensive end in this series last year, averaging 21.0 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, while shooting 57.1 percent from the field.\u00a0 Eight straight games for this squad have been decided by six or fewer points, the longest such streak for Portland since Jan. 1979.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 13-5 in the last 18 meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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Milwaukee Bucks at Portland Trail Blazers Saturday, 1\/19\/13, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FGW Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Portland -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Portland -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 195 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Milwaukee has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, coming off a 98-94 victory over the Phoenix Suns as one-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[274,3303,663,465,18,830,3914],"class_list":["post-27379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-brandon-jennings","tag-lamarcus-aldridge","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-monta-ellis","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-rose-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27380,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379\/revisions\/27380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}