{"id":4229,"date":"2008-11-14T19:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T00:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:11:36","slug":"betting-trends-141108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nba\/betting-trends-141108\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Weekend Betting Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NBA: TOP NBA WEEKEND POWER TRENDS<\/h2>\n<p>Road underdogs are hitting at 60% so far in the early NBA Season.\u00a0And while the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers still look like the class of the league there are several surprises as we enter another weekend of action. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s a closer look at those games key games and trends to note on Saturday and Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Saturday, 11\/15\/2008<\/h3>\n<p><strong>OKLAHOMA CITY at PHILADELPHIA, 7:05 PM<\/strong><br \/>\nPHILADELPHIA is 37-63 ATS (-32.3 Units) at home vs. poor shooting teams making &lt;=43% of their shots since &#8217;96. The average score was PHILADELPHIA 96.0, OPPONENT 91.1 &#8211; (Rating = 1*)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UTAH at CLEVELAND, 7:35 PM<\/strong><br \/>\nCLEVELAND is 19-6 ATS (+12.4 Units) vs. good shooting teams &#8211; making &gt;=46% of their shots over last two seasons. The average score was CLEVELAND 93.6, OPPONENT 92.3 &#8211; (Rating = 2*)<\/p>\n<p><strong>PORTLAND at MINNESOTA, 8:05 PM<\/strong><br \/>\nMcMillan is 24-12 ATS (+10.8 Units) in road games vs. poor defensive teams (FG%Def &gt;=46%) as coach of PORTLAND.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid #ffffff;\" title=\"Sportsbook.com NBA Betting\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_2744b_41\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/> The average score was PORTLAND 95.1, OPPONENT 98.5 &#8211; (Rating = 1*)<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday, 11\/16\/2008<\/h3>\n<p><strong>MIAMI at TORONTO, 1:05 PM<\/strong><br \/>\nMIAMI is 18-5 ATS (+12.5 Units) in road games vs. excellent free throw shooting teams (&gt;=80%) since 1996. The average score was MIAMI 87.9, OPPONENT 93.8 &#8211; (Rating = 1*)<\/p>\n<p><strong>DALLAS at NEW YORK, 6:05 PM<\/strong><br \/>\nDALLAS is 5-17 ATS (-13.7 Units) in road games vs. terrible defensive teams &#8211; allowing 103+ PPG over last three seasons. The average score was DALLAS 98.4, OPPONENT 102.0 &#8211; (Rating = 1*)<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAN ANTONIO at SACRAMENTO, 9:05 PM<\/strong><br \/>\nSAN ANTONIO is 16-30 ATS (-17.0 Units) in road games vs. good shooting teams (&gt;=46%) over last three seasons. The average score was SAN ANTONIO 91.3, OPPONENT 95.9 &#8211; (Rating = 1*)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the third weekend of the 2008-09 NBA season set to tip-off, we thought we\u2019d bring over a popular feature, the Top Weekend Power Trends&#8230;<\/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":[4195,4772,4771,4040,4189,4190,2381,3925,4110,4768,4770,4773,1178,4769],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-betting-units","tag-dallas-at-new-york","tag-miami-at-toronto","tag-nba-basketball-betting","tag-nba-betting-trends","tag-nba-gambling-trends","tag-nba-picks","tag-nba-predictions","tag-nba-sportsbook","tag-oklahoma-city-at-philadelphia","tag-portland-at-minnesota","tag-san-antonio-at-sacramento","tag-sportsbookcom","tag-utah-at-cleveland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","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=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106636,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/106636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}