The Portland Trail Blazers are set to visit the San Antonio Spurs Wednesday on ESPN, and while it\u2019s the latter who is both historically and currently the better team, it\u2019s the former who has had the most success against the other this year. [ad-4468020]<\/p>\n
Portland (42-22) @ San Antonio (47-16)<\/strong> ATS Matchup Insight<\/a> | CP Insider Gambling Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In three matchups, Portland has walked away victorious twice. The only loss came on Feb. 19 and was by two points, offering the question: What is more important\u2014recent success or overall success?<\/p>\n Unfortunately for the Trail Blazers, even recent success hasn\u2019t gone their way as of late. It\u2019s true that the team has won two out of the last three against the Spurs, but it has also lost its last three overall\u2014and four of its last five\u2014and has virtually no momentum in the midst of a crucial late-season road trip.<\/p>\n Against the Spurs on Wednesday, Portland must look to control the pace.<\/p>\n San Antonio is also coming off of a game the night prior, but it\u2019s the Blazers who have the younger legs and the more potent offense, and would benefit from pushing the tempo and scoring in transition.<\/p>\n Portland\u2019s biggest problem as of late has been closing out games. In this one, the team needs to get a lead early, and with recent trends going against them, they need to keep it all the way to the end. Year after year we assume that the San Antonio Spurs\u2019 championship window has closed, and year after year Gregg Popovich and his crew prove us all wrong.<\/p>\n With the playoffs in sight, the Spurs own the best record in the competitive Western Conference.<\/p>\n The team is getting the most out of both its stars and its role players\u2014as usual\u2014and this matchup will be a good simulation of what it could end up seeing in the second round of the postseason.<\/p>\n Giving up points to the Trail Blazers isn\u2019t a big deal, as Portland\u2019s defense will allow you to get them right back.<\/p>\n Making them take tough shots is the more realistic goal (than holding them below 100), and then, of course, scoring on their mostly porous defense.<\/p>\n A high-scoring game usually benefits the better offense, which in this case is Portland, but in this scenario, the Spurs are nearly as productive.<\/p>\n Expect another high-scoring game, like the last time they faced off, with the final result once again ending up in San Antonio\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n Prediction: San Antonio 113 \u2013 Portland 107<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trail Blazers vs Spurs NBA Betting Odds The Portland Trail Blazers are set to visit the San Antonio Spurs Wednesday on ESPN, and while it\u2019s the latter who is both historically and currently the better team, it\u2019s the former who has had the most success against the other this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":68041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30501,11103,4027,11097],"class_list":["post-73420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portland-trail-blazers-vs-san-antonio-spurs","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-trail-blazers-vs-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420","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=73420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73421,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73420\/revisions\/73421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWednesday, March 12 ESPN @ AT&T Center<\/strong>
\nSpread: Spurs -8 \/ OU: 211<\/strong>
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