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Under the radar play. San Jose State covering all six of its road games on the board, including good hangin-there efforts at hostile venues such as Kansas and Utah State. Too many points, there is good value here.
Play on: SJ State
3-Unit Play. #547 Take San Jose State +15 over Denver (Thursday @9 pm est)
Give me the underdog in this off the radar West Coast match-up. Two 9-7 programs clash here, and there isn't this many points separating them as suggested by the number. San Jose State has covered its last three road games, and the Spartans are 8-1 ATS in their last nine overall away from home. Denver is 6-8 against the number on the season, and averaging just 62 points per game, I see it being a tall order for them to make this a one-sided ball game. I say it's a value pick on the road underdog in this one, and we'll back San Jose State to cash with the number.
Indian Cowboy's Picks For NBA Basketball
Pass for Thursday be back with more picks on Friday.
★★★Oregon 71 - SOUTHERN CAL 57—With stunning news on Monday
that SC had dismissed HC Kevin O’Neill (asst. Bob Cantu taking over on an
interim basis for the rest of the season), some Pac-12 sources are wondering if
this was AD Pat Haden’s response to an alumni base that has been more upset
with football coach Lane Kiffin and Haden’s curious support for that embattled
gridiron mentor (“Hey guys, I’m not asleep at the switch!”). Whatever, it doesn’t
seem to bode well for the Trojans, whose performance pattern has been erratic
and might miss the various and sometimes madcap defensive schemes that
O’Neill would often deploy. Many more positive vibes are flowing these days
from Eugene, where Oregon put itself on the Big Dance radar last week with
home wins over then-unbeaten Arizona as well as Herb Sendek’s improved
ASU team in a potentially dangerous letdown spot after the upset of the
Wildcats. Dana Altman’s frosh Gs Damyean Dotson (12 ppg) and Dominic Artis
(10 ppg) long ago established their ability to deal with rigors of the road (note
UO’s November win at UNLV). And the balanced, versatile Ducks have six
scorers between 8 and 12 ppg.
★★★Milwaukee 104 - PHOENIX 94—We would expect Phoenix HC Alvin
Gentry to acknowledge the ominous parallels between his situation with the
Suns and what transpired earlier this month with Milwaukee and its dismissal of
HC Scott Skiles, whose Bucks team was faring a lot better than Phoenix before
he was forced to walk the plank. Milwaukee has since won and covered three of
four under interim HC Jim Boylan (including road wins at Toronto and Chicago)
as sources say Bucks have loosened up a bit without Skiles’ intimidating glare.
Gentry’s precarious status illustrated by fact his Suns have started to
underperform at home (just 1-4 SU last five prior to Ok City’s visit on Monday)
alongside acknowledged problems on road, where Suns had lost 12 in a row
before recent win at Derrick Rose-less Chicago. Don’t like Phoenix' chances
especially with status of sparkplug Jared Diudley (who scored 50 points in
recent three-game stretch) very iffy after recent hand injury.
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