{"id":10415,"date":"2011-02-14T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=10415"},"modified":"2011-02-14T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:22:16","slug":"lakers-vs-hornets-nba-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/lakers-vs-hornets-nba-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers vs. Hornets NBA Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the sports betting world is enthralled with Center of the Handicapping Universe GodsTips 2010-11college basketball Game of the Year<\/a>, OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has an NBA pick Monday is on Charlotte (+5) hosting the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that the Los Angeles\u00a0Lakers are a better team than the Bobcats but it\u2019s\u00a0a really difficult spot for the defending champions to be in.<\/p>\n

Kobe and the gang lost yesterday in Orlando and are on the dreaded back-to-back and fourth game in five nights. It\u2019s almost a death sentence for the Lakers today no matter how good they are and\u00a0no matter how mediocre the boys from Charlotte are.<\/p>\n

Phil Jackson\u2019s squad beat the Celtics to begin this road trip and then downed the Knicks the next night at Madison Square Garden. After\u00a0a day off they traveled down south\u00a0yesterday in the loss at Orlando and now are once again on the road in another city against the Bobcats. No matter how great these Lakers can be it just shouldn\u2019t matter. Charlotte may be fairly mediocre\u00a0and underachieving this season but they still do\u00a0have some players\u00a0in Stephen Jackson, Gerald Wallace and the blossoming DJ Augustin and everybody pretty much gets up for the champs on their assigned night, even if things have not been going all that well.<\/p>\n

The Bobbies just pulled off the semi shocking upset in Hotlanta on Saturday night against the quality Hawks and should be feeling at least a little better about themselves in this spot. Now the energy and enthusiasm should remain pretty high and upbeat with the big bad Lakers limping into town.<\/p>\n

Lamar Odom is\u00a0a bit banged up and no matter how much superior the visitors are in terms of talent I believe it gets neutralized due to the situation and in the end the home Bobcats are able to take care of business.<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Charlotte from the real Matt Rivers<\/p>\n

For more information: \u00a0A rare off Sunday, not the end of the world. More winning today and it comes in the form of a 300,000* between a couple of struggling teams in West Virginia and Syracuse. One play, one winner, no problem!\u00a0 Get Rivers Monday winners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the sports betting world is enthralled with Center of the Handicapping Universe GodsTips 2010-11college basketball Game of the Year, OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has an NBA pick Monday is on Charlotte (+5) hosting the Los Angeles Lakers. There is no doubt that the Los Angeles\u00a0Lakers are a better team than the Bobcats … Continue reading Lakers vs. Hornets NBA Picks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10417,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions\/10417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}