{"id":32280,"date":"2014-01-02T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T01:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32280"},"modified":"2014-01-02T20:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T01:23:56","slug":"nba-west-coast-betting-action-charlotte-bobcats-at-portland-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-west-coast-betting-action-charlotte-bobcats-at-portland-trail-blazers-32280\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA West Coast Betting Action:  Charlotte Bobcats at Portland Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LaMarcus-Aldridge-blazers-98.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15710\" alt=\"LaMarcus-Aldridge-blazers-98\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LaMarcus-Aldridge-blazers-98.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LaMarcus-Aldridge-blazers-98.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/LaMarcus-Aldridge-blazers-98-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><strong>Charlotte at Portland<br \/>\nTime: 10 PM ET<br \/>\nLine: POR -12<br \/>\nTotal: 200<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Odds courtesy of Bovada<\/p>\n<p>The Portland Trail Blazers are 25-7 on the season and are starting to join the talk of real contenders in the Western Conference. The Blazers knocked off Oklahoma City 98-94 on Tuesday night, and All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge had 25 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers rank 1st in the Association in scoring (108.3 points per game), and the squad is much improved defensively with Robin Lopez starting at the 5-spot instead of J.J. Hickson like a season ago. Tonight the squad will take on the Charlotte Bobcats in a game NBA oddsmakers at Bovada favor the Blazers by 12-points.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning Rookie of the Year Damian Lillard has an outside shot at being an All-Star in his second season. Thus far, he is averaging 21.3 points and 5.9 assists per game, while shooting guard Wes Matthews chips in an additional 16.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers, if it lacks anything, are not a team replete with depth and the team&#8217;s reserve bigs are inexperienced and subpar (Meyers Leonard, Joel Freeland and Thomas Robinson). While the Blazers are off to a hot start, the lack of depth and still rather porous defense may spell its downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte fell 112-85 to the Los Angeles Clippers last night and the team is 14-19 on the season, which is still good for the sixth best record in the East. The Bobcats are a strong defensive team but still lack scoring punch, and 2012 No. 2 overall draft pick Michael Kidd-Gilchrist isn&#8217;t proving much of a scoring presence and has made small, incremental strides. He&#8217;s out four to six weeks with a broken hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats are still a team desperately lacking a superstar, and Kemba Walker has assumed the No. 1 option role each of the past two seasons. The second-year guard from UConn is averaging 18.5 points per game and he also leads the team in minutes per game (35.6).<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHARLOTTE TRENDS: <\/strong>5-0 ATS in last 5 following an SU loss of more than 10 points; 11-1-1 ATS in last 13 on road; 7-1 ATS in last 8 vs teams with winning home records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PORTLAND TRENDS:<\/strong> OVER 8-0 in last 8 following an ATS win; OVER 4-0 in last 4 playing on 1 days rest; OVER 3-0-1 in last 4 Thurs games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Bobcats 0-5 ATS in last 5 in Portland; Bobcats 1-7 ATS in last 8 meetings; UNDER 5-1 in last 6 meetings in Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte at Portland Time: 10 PM ET Line: POR -12 Total: 200 Odds courtesy of Bovada The Portland Trail Blazers are 25-7 on the season and are starting to join the talk of real contenders in the Western Conference. The Blazers knocked off Oklahoma City 98-94 on Tuesday night, and All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[87,2189,7129,6624,7873,830],"class_list":["post-32280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-charlotte-bobcats","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-oddsmakers","tag-nba-picks-and-predictions","tag-nba-western-conference-betting","tag-portland-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32280","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=32280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32281,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32280\/revisions\/32281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}