Team records:<\/strong>
\nDallas: 42-21 SU, 26-36-1 ATS
\nChicago: 31-30 SU, 30-29-2 ATS<\/p>\nSecond verse, same as the first for the Bulls, who have 20 games left after tonight\u2019s toughie with the Mavericks in Chicago and find themselves in just about the same spot as they were last season \u2013 fighting to stay at the .500 mark, and hoping to qualify for the playoffs against one of the league\u2019s powers.<\/p>\n
Chicago had lost three straight, including two in a row at home, is a couple of games into a stretch of 9 straight games against teams .500 or better, and on top of everything is battling injuries to the two players \u2013 Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah \u2013 that the Bulls have to have in the final 20 games if they want to remain in the chase.<\/p>\n
Rose has averaged 26 points a game over the last 4, picking up a greater share of the scoring by default (few teams with scoring point guards get too far in the NBA) despite battling a sore knee and assorted other aches and pains that accumulate when you take the ball to the hoop as often as he does.<\/p>\n
The Bulls will rise or fall without Noah, who is suffering from planter fasciitis and is not expected to see any game action until early April. Noah may not be the reincarnation of Dave Cowens, but he is a defensively presence and it\u2019s no secret his absence is one of the reasons six straight opponents have scored at least 100 points against the Bulls.
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\n With 10 straigtht wins, the Mavericks are hardly the team the Bulls would like to face in this situation. The Mavs are the rarest of breeds \u2013 a veteran team that has managed to stay healthy and is firing on all cylinders as it heads toward the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Betting Trends<\/strong>:<\/p>\nDallas is 11-3 ATS in its last 14 games when playing on the road against Chicago
\nThe total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago’s last 6 games at home
\nChicago is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Dallas
\nDallas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
\nDallas is 19-3 SU in its last 22 games when playing Chicago
\nDallas is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing on the road against Chicago
\nThe total has gone OVER in 10 of Chicago’s last 14 games when playing at home against Dallas
\nChicago is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games at home<\/p>\n
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The line is tight only because the Mavs played at home last night. Dallas has played pretty well in the second game of back-to-backs this season (9-7) and has given the Bulls trouble over the years. Caron Butler has averaged over 15 a game since coming over at the trading deadline, and Dallas seems to have too many weapons for the depleted Bulls to match up. The Mavs also have their sights set on the No. 2 Western Conference playoff seed and head into this one essentially tied with Denver. For parlay players, Dallas and the over looks enticing.<\/p>\n
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\nLawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel expert from Massachusetts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our experts weigh in with this week\u2019s best Saturday night hoops NBA picks for gambling on all the action…tonight on the hardwood we get the Dallas Mavericks vs. Chicago Bulls…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[25360,4045,25362,25356,25357,25361,25358,25359,20992,20991,9273,9921,24594,24595,24596],"class_list":["post-19848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-dallas-mavericks-vs-chicago-bulls","tag-free-nba-picks","tag-mavericks-bulls-line","tag-mavericks-bulls-odds","tag-mavericks-bulls-picks","tag-mavericks-bulls-pointspread","tag-mavericks-vs-bulls","tag-mavericks-vs-bulls-predictions","tag-nba-parlay-betting","tag-nba-parlay-picks","tag-nba-selections","tag-online-nba-predictions","tag-saturday-night-nba","tag-saturday-night-nba-picks","tag-saturday-night-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848","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\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107098,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions\/107098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}