NBA Expert Picks - 11 Nov 06

Posted by Damon Fox @ 10:35 PM, Saturday Nov 11th, 2006

Atlanta Hawks, who beat Toronto last night, is meeting the Seattle Supersonics at home. Joe Johnson’s high scoring play leads his team to score over 100 points per game. Similarly, Seattle implements a similar game to the Hawks, and this game can be bet on to finish over 201.5 points.

Isaah Thomas’ New York Knicks have been a surprise at the beginning of the season, beating powerful opponents and having a few games that they couldn’t finish off. They like to play in high tempo, but their defensive ability can be easily interrogated. San Antonio continues its steady trend, i.e they play as they did before. Popovic refers to Duncan when the things are not in his head, Ginobili performs his magicplay, and Barry fires three-point field goals like he has already scored 20000 times before! Spurs are one of the most challenging teams in their home games. We are going to see how easy they will do it into the end of the game against the Knicks. We like San Antonio –13 as our pick.

Having lost to Indiana last night, Orlando is going to try for a win to continue their hopes for the playoffs. On the other hand, Minnesota is waiting for their opponent at home. Kevin Garnett’s plain performance in previous games cannot produce a hope for a win on Minnesota side, however. Also, Dwight Howard is the biggest nominee of the players who can play best against Garnett, the most efficient player last season. Orlando may suffer some fatigue problems, but Orlando can be said not to fall back in great figures in this game. Orlando +4.5 handicap is the pick.

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