{"id":8960,"date":"2010-10-29T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2010-10-29T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:29:53","slug":"atlanta-vs-philadelphia-nba-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/atlanta-vs-philadelphia-nba-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta vs. Philadelphia NBA Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your free pick<\/a> winner for Friday is on the Atlanta Hawks -3.5 against Philadelphia. This comes from Matt Rivers.<\/p>\n

I played the Hawks in the opener in Memphis and will go back to that well one more time. It\u2019s\u00a0always asking a little to lay points on the road but there is the potential for this 76er squad to be half a disaster and I really like\u00a0Larry Drew\u2019s boys right now.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia was atrocious in the opener getting absolutely smacked around by Lebron and the Heat saving some face in garbage time\u00a0and come into this thing\u00a0with very little. Doug Collins is a decent enough coach but there\u2019s a reason why the guy was out of coaching for a while and his boys\u00a0will struggle in the early going.<\/p>\n

The Hawks meanwhile have\u00a0a roster that has now been together for a while and it showed in the beyond easy victory at Memphis on Tuesday. Joe\u00a0Johnson is a perennial All-Star stud leading the way along with a ridiculously athletic Josh Smith plus guys like Al Horford and Jamal Crawford who are really good. Throw in a quality double-double in the opener by Zaza Pachulia and a few other guys and the Hawks are without a doubt\u00a0still the fourth best team in the East behind the three mega teams in Miami, Orlando and Boston.<\/p>\n

I like Andre Iguodala and\u00a0Evan Turner showed glimpses against the Heat but today\u2019s visitors are\u00a0a team that has been gelling for a few seasons now and in this early spot should be far better prepared to get the victory.<\/p>\n

I am not calling for a total burial but if this thing gets a little ugly early it would not entirely shock me.<\/p>\n

The pick: Atlanta +3<\/p>\n

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Your free pick winner for Friday is on the Atlanta Hawks -3.5 against Philadelphia. This comes from Matt Rivers. I played the Hawks in the opener in Memphis and will go back to that well one more time. It\u2019s\u00a0always asking a little to lay points on the road but there is the potential for this … Continue reading Atlanta vs. Philadelphia NBA Spread<\/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-8960","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\/8960","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=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}