{"id":16863,"date":"2009-12-15T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2009-12-15T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:37:15","slug":"handicapping-preview-spurs-vs-suns-121509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nba\/handicapping-preview-spurs-vs-suns-121509\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs vs. Suns NBA Gambling Preview \/ Handicapping Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game of the day | Spurs vs. Suns<\/h2>\n
\"Freddy<\/a>
Freddy Wills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Freddy Wills was active on Monday with great sports picks. Freddy won on the 49ers and the Oklahoma City Thunder for two POD winners. He is now 14-3 ATS in his last 17 NFL POD\u2019s and 14-6-1 ATS in his last 21 NBA POD\u2019s.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE NOW TO VIEW FREDDY’S NBA PICKS FOR TODAY’S ACTION \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

San Antonio Spurs at Phoenix Suns (-3, 210.5) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Suns Gone Bad? <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Phoenix Suns who started the season with a great 14-3 record have now lost five of seven. Five straight road games have been losers, but they will return home to face the Spurs on Tuesday. Suns have won 17 straight dating back to last season at home. Their 8-0 record at home is not that impressive as they have just 1 home win vs. a winning team. We really do not know if this team is the real deal or not yet.<\/p>\n

Suns showed the inability to close out games as they blew a 17-point lead in a loss to the Denver Nuggets over the weekend. Steve Nash said, \u201cWe were a little tired and a little stagnant when we were up 17 and let them back in the game.\u201d Suns did cover the 8 point spread in Denver and it just goes to show you how difficult it is to win at high elevation in Denver late in a game.<\/p>\n

Tonight, they will face a Spurs team that uncharacteristically is struggling on defense and like the Suns has yet to show a consistent form of winning.<\/p>\n

Timmy\u2026Timmy <\/strong><\/p>\n

What is ironic about the Spurs inconsistent play is Tim Duncan\u2019s knees are not what they were earlier in his career. Duncan a 13-year Center is being rested more and more by Coach Gregg Popovich. Popovich told the San Antonio Express News that he will be limiting Duncan\u2019s minutes to 32 a game in hopes of resting Duncan for the stretch run this spring. Limiting Duncan\u2019s minutes is a sure thing to get inconsistent play and I do not recommend putting your money on these guys often.<\/p>\n

Duncan has seen his minutes cut every single year since his career high of 40.6 minutes per game in 2001-02. Duncan currently is averaging just 32 minutes a game, his lowest of his career.<\/p>\n

Suns injury front? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jason Richardson, Suns guard, may miss tonight\u2019s game as he sprained his right hand against Denver on Saturday night. Richardson did not practice on Monday despite the X-ray being negative.
\nRichardson will be a game time decision and could impact what the Suns do on Tuesday. Look for Jared Dudley and Goran Dragic to see more minutes if he can not play. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hitting The Road <\/strong><\/p>\n

The current three-game road trip is the Spurs longest road trip of the season so far. Manu Ginobili told reporters that the team is in fact looking forward to the road trip, because it is something that allows him to get to know the new guys better.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t matter if he gets to know them better if they don\u2019t play better. Sunday\u2019s win over the Clippers was just the Spurs second road victory of the season.<\/p>\n

Hot Trends <\/strong><\/h3>\n

San Antonio <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Spurs are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games following a SU win of more than 10 points.
\n\u2022 Spurs are 6-1 ATS in their last 7 after scoring 100 points or more in their previous game.
\n\u2022 Spurs are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games following a ATS win.
\n\u2022 Spurs are 5-16 ATS in their last 21 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.
\n\u2022 Spurs are 1-6 ATS in their last 7 games as a road underdog.
\n\u2022 Spurs are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.<\/p>\n

Phoenix <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Suns are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games as a favorite of 0.5-4.5.
\n\u2022 Suns are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games following a ATS win.
\n\u2022 Suns are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 vs. NBA Southwest.
\n\u2022 Suns are 12-3-1 ATS in their last 16 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of less than .400.
\n\u2022 Suns are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games as a home favorite of 0.5-4.5.
\n\u2022 Suns are 7-2 ATS in their last 9 games playing on 2 days rest.
\n\u2022 Suns are 14-4-1 ATS in their last 19 home games vs. a team with a losing road record.<\/p>\n

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Freddy Wills weighs in with a short preview for the San Antonio Spurs vs. Phoenix Suns matchup tonight. Oddsmakers currently have the Suns listed as 1\u00bd-point favorites versus the Spurs, while the game’s total is sitting at 210…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8437,1975,21149,14242,7587,21148,744,21146,3942,2381,10854,21147,9666,14244,9667,21150,21151],"class_list":["post-16863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-basketball-predictions","tag-bet-on-nba","tag-cappers-nba-picks","tag-freddy-wills","tag-handicapping-trends","tag-nba-basketball-predictions","tag-nba-betting","tag-nba-gambling-preview","tag-nba-handicapping","tag-nba-picks","tag-nba-prediction","tag-phoenix-vs-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs-vs-phoenix-suns","tag-sportsbetcappingcom","tag-spurs-vs-suns","tag-suns-spurs-odds","tag-suns-spurs-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19587,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions\/19587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}