2-9-10

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Erin Rynning

2/9/10 NBA 20* Playmaker: Indiana Over 203.5 -110 (508)

2/9/10 NBA LA Clippers Over 201.5 -110 (522)

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KING CREOLE

NBA Total Tue, 02/09/10 - 7:05 PM ƒŠ

double-dime bet 501 NJN / 502 CLE Under 189.0 BetUS
Analysis:
7:00pm ET / New Jersey Nets @ Cleveland Cavaliers
2** Play on: UNDER the TOTAL

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Bob Balfe

NBA Basketball
(All Basketball Plays are 1/3 of your average football wager)
Nuggets -7 over Mavricks
Despite the uncertainty of Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups suiting up tonight, the Nuggets should have no trouble at home against a struggling and tired Mavericks team. Ty Lawson has emerged as an offensive threat and worthy backup to Billups and J.R. Smith should have a big game offensively in the absence of Anthony and Billups. The key to this game will simply be the tempo that Denver will create right at the tip-off and Dallas will be playing behind for the majority of the game. The guard play of Denver should easily dominate the Kidd/Terry combination. Denver is absolutely potent when home (22-4 record) and Dallas is simply too slow to compete in this game. Take Denver -7.

College Basketball
(All Basketball Plays are 1/3 of your average football wager)
Wake Forest -6 over Boston College
Home court advantage is the factor in this game. Wake Forest is 10-1 at home and wins by an average of 14.5 points per game. Boston College has been mildly disappointing thus far and should be getting a lot more points against an increasingly dominant and fully-clicked Wake squad. Take Wake -6.

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Teddy June

10* Creighton
10* Vanderbilt

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Marty Otto

2/9/10 CBB Big O: Illinois +9 -110 (523)

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young guns 5 star utah Jazz -4 1/2

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Paul Leiner:

500* CBB Over 127 St Josephs/St Louis

100* NBA Over 213.5 Sacr/NYK

50* CBB Vanderbilt -3.5

25* CBB Georgetown -4.5

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Mike Hook | CBB Sides Tue, 02/09/10 - 8:00 PM ƒŠ

double-dime bet 546 Bradley 1.5 (-110) Bodog vs 545 Illinois St.
Analysis: This selection of BRADLEY +1.5 has 3 angles that i love backing. First and foremost is a strong revenge angle. These 2 teams faced off less than 2 weeks ago in Illinois St, and Illinois St. laid a beating on this Bradley team. Illinois St. was favored by 8.5 points in that game, so please realize that when noticing that todays game open up at a PK. Obviously one of these past 2 games was a mistake by oddsmakers, as you normally don't see an 8.5 swing just because of the change in venue. Even crazier is how strong this opening line was based on how BOTH of these teams played in that last contest. Besides the revenge angle, i love the value we are getting tonight with relation to my personal power rankings for both of these teams. I have Bradley as a top 100 team when playing at home, while Illinois St. is only a top 150 team while playing on the road. According to my numbers, Bradley has played a schedule that is EASILY twice as difficult as that of what Illinois St. has faced. Lastly, i feel Bradley is in better form right now. I have watched this team closely since their near upset against league power Northern Iowa. Outside of their egg against their opponent today, i like how Bradley has played of late. The same can't be said for Illinois St, as they've lost 3 of their past 5 games, and their only league win on the road this year is against Evansville, a team Bradley just blasted.

So clearly, 3 strong angles that support this play tonight, and that makes me very excited. I realize Bradley hasn't always played well at home, but i highly suspect today will be different. Reason #1 is the BLACKOUT that will take place tonight at Carver arena. This game is being hyped locally as a huge game. With the full support of the crowd tonight and the "new" jerseys in place, i expect Bradley to be ready to go tonight. Now i realize i've talked recently about how "blackouts" and other promotions often put more pressure on a team. I don't think this will be the case tonight, simply because Bradley has had their eyes set on this game ever since they were blown out 11 days ago. Illinois St. simply outhustled Bradley in every sense of the word. In front of their home fans tonight, i believe all the hustle points will be in favor of Bradley. I see absolutely no way that Illinois St. doubles the rebounding numbers like they nearly did in the last meeting. I also expect Bradley to shoot far better from the field than they did the last time in route to a 28% shooting performance. One must also realize how much Illinois St. has struggled to play in Carver Arena. Illnois St. hasn't won there since 2002, a span of 7 consecutive games. That's the longest stretch of winless road games in conference play for Illinois St. In fact, Illinois St. has such a hard time with playing in Carver Arena that they actually changed their schedule of how they approach this specific game. In reality, their personal struggles in Carver Arena are already in the heads of Illinois St, as they are preparing differently for this specific game. I don't think it's going to help, because this team struggles to win on the road as it is. As mentioned earlier, their only road league win has come against Evansville, which isn't a big surprise really.

Bradley will be ready to go tonight. They are the better team, in better form, and on revenge. They will look to set the tone early with their hustle and their defense. This Bradley team has held 7 of their past 8 opponents to 66 points or fewer. Earlier in the season when they were struggling, it was their defense that was lacking. They've since fixed those problems, and a big reason why is effort. That effort will simply not go away tonight, not in front of a crowd that is going to be rockin thanks to the "blackout" promotion.

This revenge angle needs to be talked about just a bit more. Recently, Bradley has revenged losses to both Missouri St. and Southern Illinois. They lost earlier this season by 19 and 5 points respectively against those two opponents. How did they bounce back you might ask? They responded on the revenge angle with a 2 point win on the road at Southern Illinois and a dominant 18 point home win against Missouri St. Clearly this Bradley team relishes the role of REVENGE. Today, they will relish it that much more, as they win this game by 5 points or more. Quite frankly, the wrong team is favored here. Illinois St. might have the gaudier record, but against whom? I really like Bradley tonight, and i'm backing them at +1.5 for my DOUBLE STAR play for today! Bradley +1.5 for 2 units tonight!

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RON RAYMOND’S 5* NBA O/U GAME OF THE MONTH

Pick # 1 Chicago Bulls / Indiana Pacers Over 205 -110

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Doc Sports

4-Unit Play #522 Take LA Clippers +5 Over Utah
3-Unit Play #507 Take Chicago/Indiana UNDER 205
3-Unit Play #505 Take Minnesota/Philadelphia UNDER 205 1/2

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Trushel
Illinois/regular
Gmason/regular
Mich. st/ regular
Bradley/ 20*

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RAS


Central Michigan un 131.5

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Clayton Rice


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CBB - 4* VANDERBILT

NBA - 3* INDIANA PACERS

3* HOUSTON ROCKETS

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Andre Gomes | NBA Sides
516 MIL -8.0 (-110) Bookmaker.com vs 515 DET
Analysis: Detroit
Pace: 91.4 (29th of 30)
Offense: 100.2 (26th of 30)
Defense: 106.0 (20th of 30)

Milwaukee
Pace: 97.1 (28th of 30)
Offense: 101.3 (23th of 30)
Defense: 101.2 (8th of 30)


This is a special time in the season where we can find some teams focused in winning to improve their chances for the playoff picture while others teams are just looking ahead to the break and for some couple of days to rest. In my opinion this is the perfect scenario for tonight's contest between the Bucks and the Pistons.

The Bucks are playing great basketball as of late by winning 7 of their last 10 games and covering the spread in 9 of the last 10 games. I've already said several times that center Andrew Bogut is playing great basketball this season and in the last 10 games, Bogut is averaging 18.2 points per game while shooting a whopping mark of 67% from the field! Plus he is grabbing 8.9 rebounds per game and 2.2 blocks per game during this span! The Bucks are caring the ball as well with 21.8 assists per game vs. just 11.6 TO/game L10 and now with Jerry Stackhouse coming off the bench they have one of the most complete and best benches of the league. The mix of these factors makes the Bucks one of the hottest teams in the league in the last couple of weeks.

Meanwhile the Pistons are struggling even with the healthy bodies of Richard Hamilton and Prince. In fact, I think that with these two players on the court, the team chemistry is just terrible and head coach John Kuester simply doesn't know what to do to find the best rotations. Note that they are paying $10M to Ben Gordon this season and he played less than 20 minutes per game in the Pistons last 5 games. The Pistons are 2-6 L8 games with their 2 wins coming from against the….Nets and still the Nets had legit chances to win those games. In the last game we can see one interesting and intriguing factor. The Pistons as a team shot 52.1% from the field and connected 8-12 behind the arc. However look for the Pistons "big 3" (Stuckey, Hamilton and Prince) field goal numbers:

Rodney Stuckey 4-13
Richard Hamilton 5-14
Tayshaun Prince 2-6

The "Big 3" combined to shot 11-33 from the field - a 33.3% clip while the rest of the crew has shot 27-40 FG - 67.5% from the field! Still, these three players played a total of 103 minutes and that's a great example of is tough to have the right team chemistry in a team.

For tonight's contest we can expect a focused Bucks team on the court:

"We're trying to finish before the break on a strong note, and I think we will," coach Scott Skiles said.
"These are two huge games right here. We really have a chance to put ourselves in a position where every game is meaningful for quite a while.

"The guys know that we've got important games coming out of the break, and I think that can benefit us."
Meanwhile the Pistons have tomorrow a "winnable" game at home against the Kings so I wouldn't be surprised if this game is near to be out of reach they will simply give up thinking in tomorrow's game. Note that the Bucks have the depth on their bench to solidify a blowout line. They have the third best bench in the league with 38.2 points per game and we can count on them to finish the job.

My projected line in this contest is the Bucks receiving a blowout line and anything less than a double digits line for them gives us the proper edge to make a play with the Bucks tonight.

Pick: 3 units (Single Dime Play) on 516 Milwaukee Bucks (-8)

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Have Craig Davis's pick for tonight? thanks!