{"id":9756,"date":"2010-12-13T19:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T19:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2010-12-13T19:21:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T19:21:48","slug":"nba-picks-hornets-vs-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/nba-picks-hornets-vs-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Hornets vs. Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA betting<\/a> has been a windfall for sharp bettors and that continues Monday. Of course the nation\u2019s best handicappers have never been hotter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Matt Rivers of OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a> pick Monday is on the Hornets +11.5 against Miami.<\/p>\n

Going against Miami\u00a0in recent days has equaled suicide as LeBron, D Wade and\u00a0Bosh have started to really gel and form the team that everybody thought they would be. The Heat are great and have now won eight in a row, covering their last seven. Therefore to say anything negative about Erik Spoelstra\u2019s squad is rather silly as they should get another w today but I also do see Chris Paul and the visitors being able to do enough to cover the contest.<\/p>\n

Miami is playing their first game back from the four game west coast swing that ended with back-to-back games in Golden State and Sacramento on Friday and Saturday night.\u00a0One theory that I go by, which works a heck of a lot, is to fade any team that is back home in that first game after a three plus game road trip and that fits the Heat\u00a0tonight. Then throw in how this is a tough\u00a0cross country travel all the way from Sacramento down south to Miami and a third game in the last four days. You know that the flight home did not get in until Sunday morning, fairly late,\u00a0and the players did not get a usual night of sleep making this almost feel like a back-to-back type of a situation. Fatigue has got to be an issue and when factored in with it being that first game back in South Beach how can I not grab this around double-digit number?<\/p>\n

New Orleans is not great at all and the 8-0 start to the season was a semi mirage as proven by them dropping three of their last four both straight up and against that number.\u00a0With that said though\u00a0the Hornets\u00a0do have a superstar point guard in Paul\u00a0along with a few other pieces like David West and Emeka Okafor. New Orleans also hasn\u2019t\u00a0played since Friday and is without a shadow of a doubt the far fresher team on the\u00a0court today and to get around double digits makes them just fine with me.<\/p>\n

Look for the Heat to resort back to that earlier season form and in the end this thing to be a lot closer than the experts seem to think.<\/p>\n

The pick: New Orleans +11<\/p>\n

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NBA betting has been a windfall for sharp bettors and that continues Monday. Of course the nation\u2019s best handicappers have never been hotter. Matt Rivers of OffshoreInsiders.com pick Monday is on the Hornets +11.5 against Miami. Going against Miami\u00a0in recent days has equaled suicide as LeBron, D Wade and\u00a0Bosh have started to really gel and … Continue reading NBA Picks: Hornets vs. Heat<\/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-9756","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\/9756","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=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9758,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}