{"id":37000,"date":"2015-02-24T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=37000"},"modified":"2015-02-24T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:28:07","slug":"nba-betting-tuesday-golden-state-warriors-at-washington-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-tuesday-golden-state-warriors-at-washington-wizards-37000\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Tuesday: Golden State Warriors at Washington Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Klay Thompson is due to carry the Warriors tonight if Steph Curry is unable to go (ankle).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Golden State at Washington<\/strong>
\n Time: 7 PM ET<\/strong>
\n TV: CSN Bay Area, CSNB, League Pass<\/strong>
\n Spread: GSW -6.5<\/strong>
\n Total: 206<\/strong><\/p>\n

Betting odds c\/o Bovada<\/p>\n

The Golden State Warriors may be without star guard Stephen Curry as he nurses a right ankle injury. It also likely won\u2019t matter. The Warriors are 24-2 at home this season and will host the Washington Wizards who boast a 13-14 road record. Accordingly, NBA oddsmakers have set the live NBA line<\/a> at 6.5 points in favor of the Warriors. The total for the game is 206, and for an explanation of this see our NBA odds explained.<\/a><\/p>\n

While the Warriors may be without Curry, Washington is likely going to be without Bradley Beal, despite being listed as questionable. Beal has been dealing with a stress fracture in his tibia and will need time to heal. With Washington in the midst of a thick playoff chase in the East, it really could not come at a worse time (save the playoffs themselves). Accordingly, without its shooting guard, the Wiz have dropped four straight contests and have lost eight of its past 10 games. Getting back on track against the best team in the West will not prove to be easy.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, though, this is a Wizards team boasting the depth that should theoretically be enough to counter Beal\u2019s injury. Paul Pierce\u2019s importance to the team should now be seen, as Pierce is still capable of shouldering a large offensive load. The veteran has averaged 12.4 points per game this season, but he has done anything but step it up with Beal out. Over his past 10 games, Pierce has averaged just 10.4 points on 40 percent shooting. For Washington to have any chance at pulling this upset, he\u2019s going to have to play far better. In February, he is under 10 points per game while shooting 39.1 percent from the floor.<\/p>\n

The real slack may be picked up by All-Star John Wall. Wall has arrived as an elite point guard at long last, and is averaging 10.1 assists per game to go with his 17 points. Wall is also a game changer on the defensive end, playing passing lanes to come up with 1.82 steals per game. His PER of 20.2 is the highest on Washington\u2019s roster. Wall will do well to get center Marcin Gortat involved. He\u2019s also been negatively impacted by losing Beal\u2019s spacing on the perimeter.<\/p>\n

Gortat\u2019s 12 points per game have dipped to just 10.8 over the last 10 Wizards games, while even his rebounding has been slightly impacted (under eight per game over this stretch). Gortat and Wall function so well in pick and rolls that it has to be utilized to open up the offense in the half court. Losing a shooter as good as Beal affects everyone on the court more than the casual fan might expect.<\/p>\n

The main reason Golden State should have no problem winning this game is that even if Curry is out, Klay Thompson is capable of carrying an offense. He set a record for points in a quarter with 37; many players go their entire careers without eclipsing that for a full game. The Warriors have absolutely no trouble putting the ball in the hoop, averaging a league best 110.3 points per game while not even allowing 100. As one may expect, GS averages 27.1 assists per game which leads all teams.<\/p>\n

The depth the Warriors have to draw on for its scoring is nearly unfathomable, especially considering that the team has reeled off a 43-10 record without All-Star power forward David Lee. The emergence of Draymond Green (who some say may get a max-contract this summer) has made Lee seem expendable. As to whether the Warriors can retain Green\u2019s services beyond this season is tough to guess; he may seek a larger role on another team. Can Green be a No. 2 or No. 3 option on a lesser team? That\u2019s even tougher to speculate.<\/p>\n

Be all that as it may, right now the Warriors are the team to beat in the West, and this is a tough game for the Wizards to make a statement in, playing at Oracle, by all accounts the toughest and most raucous atmosphere on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Golden State at Washington Time: 7 PM ET TV: CSN Bay Area, CSNB, League Pass Spread: GSW -6.5 Total: 206 Betting odds c\/o Bovada The Golden State Warriors may be without star guard Stephen Curry as he nurses a right ankle injury. It also likely won\u2019t matter. The Warriors are 24-2 at home this season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":29553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1011,7900,2189,7129,6624,644],"class_list":["post-37000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-nba-live-lines","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-oddsmakers","tag-nba-picks-and-predictions","tag-washington-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000","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=37000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37001,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000\/revisions\/37001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}