NBA - March 9th Picks

[Rick121212]

Detroit Pistons at San Antonio Spurs - Under 203 points @ 1.91 (WillHill) The Pistons come up against the Spurs after a 113-102 win at home to the Wizards but will have a much harder team getting a similar result here. Having a 7-24 road record and also only averaging 90.9 points on the road this season doesn't bode well and with San Antonio averaging only giving up 95.0 points at home this season the Pistons should struggle. I feel the line is too big and this is due to both teams having high scoring games of late (Detroit against Washington, Minnesota and Utah for example, and San Antonio versus Miami) but with the Pistons not putting many points up on the road, being one of the slowest paced teams coming up against a strong defensive team, who also aren't massive scorers, I'm hoping this can stay under. With San Antonio's home O/U record standing at 13-19 and Detroit's road O/U record at 10-21, I think it looks good.

[Rick121212]

Re: NBA - March 9th Picks Cleveland Cavaliers at Milwaukee Bucks - Under 188 points @ 1.91 (SportingBet) As it was yesterday, the Bucks are the perfect Under's bet here after a good win against the Wizards on the road, holding them to only 76 points. I expect something similar here, as the two least efficient offenses in the NBA meet, Milwaukee averaging 91.2 points a game and the Cavaliers with 96.0 points. The Bucks can stop the Cavaliers offense with ease, last time these met at the end of January Cleveland managed 88 points, but they only got 68 FG attempts and if they can put up a similar effort, the Cavs won't score much. The Cavaliers might not defend quite as well (giving up 102 points last time) but the Bucks aren't high scorers and as I'm hoping for a similar score to the first time they met this season way back in November which ended 83-81. The Under is the way to play this.