Thursday Night NBA

By Divol

Orlando Magic v Atlanta Hawks



7th May 01:05 GMT

I will take three bets for today that I like. I will take the Magic yet again. Hawks haven't proved not even once this season (the single win means nothing since Magic couldn't care less about that game) that they can even present themselves as even decent rival for the Magic. Even the bookies that usually take few points off for Game 2 if the home team won game one, haven't done so this time. I will lower my stakes, but still make the bet.

Howard -4.5 rebounds against Horford. Just think that the line is way off. You can't look at statistics. When  you face Howard, you take less rebounds. There actually two reasons for that. One is the obvious that Howard will take few rebounds from you, more than any other rival in this league and second reason is less obvious and that is that when you play Howard, your mission isn't to take rebounds, but to box him out and let your other team mates take the rebound. When you play with a rebound machine like Josh Smith, this even easier task.
From the 5 games played so far, the only game that Horford would have won the bet was the only game that Howard played awful and was in foul trouble early.



Picks:

Magic -9.5 - 1.92 odds - 1.5 units - Expekt

Magic -5.5 at HT, 1.91 odds - 1.5 units - Boylesports

Howard -4.5 rebounds against Horford - 1.85 odds - 2.5 units play - Gamebookers

Divol