Basketball Betting Tips from the Best Basketball Tipsters of the net!

The line for this game started at 5 points and it has decreased for the 3.5 points. I like this line as the team who will win the match outright is very likely to win also the spread and that's what I wanted as the Cavs have won their home games, but they are struggling to cover large spreads. Both teams have been hot lately, as the Cavs are 8-2 in their last 10 games and the Wizards are 7-3. Both teams have defeated the top teams of the league recently, including San Antonio, Dallas and Boston, however I see the edge of the Cavs side for this match. For three important motives.

First of all, the Cavs are dominating the rebounds lately and the team is looking very well physically. Not only they are the 2nd best team in the league in rebound margin (+2.737), as they haven't been outrebounded since January, 2nd. This is the same than saying that they had more rebounds than their opponents in their last seven games. And they are outrebounding their opponents with impressive numbers (+7,6 reb per game). Curiously, the Wizards in their three defeats in their last ten games were clearly outrebounded, with an average of 8.6 reb per game. So, this will be the X factor for tonight's match.

Also this is a revenge game for Cleveland, as at December, 7th the Wizards destroyed the Cavs by 105-86, when Lebron was still injured, including an advantage of 19 points at HT. So I expect a motivation spot in here for Cleveland. Finally I have to talk about the matchup between Lebron and Butler. King James is averaging 32.1 points on 49.8 percent shooting in the new year. Basically this is the same to say that nobody can stop him right now and it won't be Butler to do it today for sure. Especially as Butler in the last two games has been terrible in his defensive tasks, as he allowed Howard to shoot 11-16 FG 32 pts and Richardson 8-16 FG 21 pts.

So, for this motives I expect a sweet victory by the Cavs today.

www.andregomes.com

Pick : Cleveland Cavaliers (-3,5)
Odds : 1.91
Stake : 7 / 10
Bookmaker : The Greek
Tipster Personal Link/Sponsor:
Date : 2008-01-24
Match Result : 121-86
Viewed: 190 times.