Tuesday Bet O The Day 3/31

OccamsRazor · Mar 30, 2009

YTD 20-20
SIDES 11-11
TOTALS 9-9

Won last time out with the Clev/Dall UNDER.

PORTLAND at home in a playoff positioning chase (17-15 ATS as a HM FAV, winning by an average of 9) Meets a poor traveling UTAH team on a B2B. (5-11 ATS as a RD DOG losing by an average of 8 and 5-12 ATS on B2B) Portland has won its last 2 HM games by exactly 20 points each.

PORTLAND-6 (<)<

OccamsRazor · Mar 31, 2009

From Covers

..."Portland is 19-4 this season (SU) against teams playing on the second night of back-to-backs. Blazers coach Nate McMillan has a strategy when playing teams on the second night of a back to back.

"The thing is to be aggressive and that's what we want to do,” he said. “We know we need to do that defensively as well as offensively. Keep the pressure on their defense by pushing the ball. But that team (Utah) will be ready, it's an experienced team. These games are important for both teams..."

Full article:
http://www.covers.com/articles/articles.aspx?theArt=169408

OccamsRazor · Mar 31, 2009

From a UTAH paper:

The Jazz have struggled to win in the second game of back-to-back sets (3-14) and struggled to win on the road (14-21) this season, but will need to do both with a pair of season-defining games the next three days at Portland and Denver.

"It's two playoff teams," Deron Williams said. "I don't think we've beaten a playoff team on the road yet this season, so we've got to get some wins."

"We know this trip is huge," Kyle Korver added. "You're going to see a very focused team. We'll see what we can do."
The Jazz (46-27) trail Denver by 1 1-2 games and are tied with Portland in the Northwest Division race. They have won the division the last two seasons, which brings a guaranteed top-four playoff seed and possible home-court advantage in the first round.

Both the Trail Blazers and Nuggets need victories to split the four-game season series against the Jazz. The next tiebreaker would be division record, with the Jazz 10-3, Denver 9-3 and Portland 7-5.
"There's so much ground to gain or to lose," Korver said.

budlight · Mar 31, 2009

blazers look like the play

diop · Mar 31, 2009

dam you've done your research lol!

HammerTime · Mar 31, 2009

OccamsRazor · Apr 1, 2009

No surprises, simple game that played to form. A poor traveling Utah squad versus a hot home (won by 20, 20 and 21 tonight) team looking to better its playoff standing.

:toast:

Thanks for the Luck Hammer.

Dallas on Wed in similar situation as Portland tonight.

kidslick · Apr 1, 2009

thoughts on portland to win the conference

thanks
kid

kingking · Apr 1, 2009

OccamsRazor said:
No surprises, simple game that played to form. A poor traveling Utah squad versus a hot home (won by 20, 20 and 21 tonight) team looking to better its playoff standing.

:toast:

Thanks for the Luck Hammer.

Dallas on Wed in similar situation as Portland tonight.