{"id":10952,"date":"2011-03-28T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=10952"},"modified":"2011-03-28T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:51:12","slug":"free-pick-76ers-vs-bulls-from-matt-rivers-handicapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/free-pick-76ers-vs-bulls-from-matt-rivers-handicapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Pick: 76ers vs. Bulls From Matt Rivers Handicapper"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has a spread pick winner for Monday is on the Philadelphia 76ers (+10) at Chicago.<\/p>\n

Derrick Rose and the Bulls have been virtually, if not literally,\u00a0the best team in the NBA for a little while now. Chicago is rocking and rolling and playing amazing ball of late. Meanwhile the 76ers just\u00a0lost an overtime game at home against the lowly Kings yesterday. So how can I back the team that has far less going for them and with them playing on the road? Because Doug Collins has done a great job this season and Philadelphia should be a little steamed after\u00a0looking as bad as they did yesterday.<\/p>\n

Thaddeus Lewis and Lou Williams were horrific in that last game shooting something like a combined 3-for-23. All in all the 6ers played one of their worst games in a long time and I expect them to be more focused here against a Bulls team that has caught a lot of people\u2019s attention. More times than not when guys shoot as bad as that they come back to form in the next game. You\u2019ll\u00a0also see guys who shoot the lights out one game and then regress mightily in that next game. Call it the Law of\u00a0averages, call OT whatever, it just happens more times than not.<\/p>\n

I cannot possibly say much negative about a red-hot Bulls team that is 53-19 so I\u2019m not. I will say though that Chicago\u00a0has played\u00a0back-to-back subpar games against Memphis and Milwaukee and could have lost both of them if not for some Rose heroics in the end.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia is a good enough team coming off of an embarrassing loss to cover this double-digit number and I\u2019ll therefore take my chances on Iggy,\u00a0Jrue\u00a0and the competent enough visitors.<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Matt Rivers with Philadelphia<\/p>\n

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a spread pick winner for Monday is on the Philadelphia 76ers (+10) at Chicago. Derrick Rose and the Bulls have been virtually, if not literally,\u00a0the best team in the NBA for a little while now. Chicago is rocking and rolling and playing amazing ball of late. Meanwhile the … Continue reading Free Pick: 76ers vs. Bulls From Matt Rivers Handicapper<\/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-10952","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\/10952","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=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10954,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions\/10954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}