NBA: Los Angeles Clippers VS Portland Trail Blazers Pick and Predictions 11/29/2022

by James Q

Monday, Nov 28, 2022

NBA:  Los Angeles Clippers VS Portland Trail Blazers Pick and Predictions 11/29/2022


Game: 10:00 PM ET,  Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
Venue: Moda Center at the Rose Garden, Portland, Oregon
Where to Watch: TNT

Season Record:

Clippers: 12-9, 5th place Western Conference
Trail Blazers: 11-9, 7th place Western Conference

Opening NBA odds at USA Sportsbooks

BetMGM:  Point Spread:  Trail Blazers -3.5, O/U 211.5
PointsBet: Point Spread: Trail Blazers -3.5, O/U 211.5
Fanduel: Point Spread: Trail Blazers -3, O/U 211

Starting Five:

Clippers: SF Amir Coffey, PF Marcus Morris Sr, C Ivica Zubac, PG Reggie Jackson, SG Terance Mann
Trail Blazers: PF Jerami Grant, SF Josh Hart, C Jusuf Nurkic, PG Anfernee Simons, SG Justise Winslow

An NBA Western Conference battle of “almost there”.  The Clippers started the season slow and have started winning.  The Blazers started the season fast and have started losing.  It is not coincidence that the Clippers have an injured star while the Blazers have an injured star.  It is what that star does to the rest of the team that makes all the difference.  The Los Angeles Clippers have won 4 of their last 6 games… In that stretch Kawhi Leonard has been in and out of the lineup AND Paul George has been in and out of the lineup with soreness in surgically repaired knees or soreness in the hamstring.  Whatever the reason that keeps taking the Clippers stars away?... It is also the reason that sometimes the role players boom and sometimes they are overlooked.  Yes, the Clippers would rather have Kawhi AND PG-13 healthy and ready to play… but the team does not look to either of those guys for wins anymore… the team looks to the team.  The Portland Trail Blazers have lost 5 of their last 6 games… tumbling them from 1st or 2nd place to 7th place in the West. Coincidentally Blazers mega star PG Damian Lilliard is out with a calf injury.  Lilliard is the motor that makes the Blazers run.  It is that simple.  With him they were a young, new, impressive winning roster… without a healthy Lilliard… They are a collection of guys.  They tend to lose unless they run into an unprepared Knicks or Spurs.  What we do know is that the Blazers will be without Lilliard for the next week AT LEAST.  The great betting opportunity in this game is in figuring out if the Point spread is worth it or not?  The Clippers should win… but by how many points?

The Los Angeles Clippers smiled big as they beat the Indiana Pacers 114-100 in their last game.  There was an amazing Center on the court on full display… the guy had toiled for years as a quality center in this league… But on Sunday night against the Indiana Pacers? C Ivica Zubac equaled only the memory of a young Kareem Abdul Jabbar as he posted a statline of 31 POINTS, 29 REBOUNDS, 3 assists, and 3 BLOCKED SHOTS… 5 other Clippers scored in double figures… but the Champion on the floor for either squad was Zubac.  Many Los Angeles fans marveled at the performance while remembering that the Clippers got Zubac FROM THE LAKERS in 2019 for a guy named Mike Muscala who is no longer in the league!  It was the first of many dumb trades made by Lakers new GM Rob Pelinka!  If Rob had simply held onto Zubac, Ingram, and Randle… and traded the others for pieces as needed… and used his own picks?… The LeBron signing would have paid off with multiple NBA rings!  That is a fact not an opinion. Instead the Clippers got Zubac for free from the Lakers… and he is a quality NBA starting Center that is capable of big games when the stars are out with injury.

The Portland Trail Blazers are in a deep losing skid.  The Blazers had been overperforming with PG Damian Liliard at the reins of the sled… but now that Lilliard is again missing games.. They are cruising to losses as a completely rudderless team.  PG Anfernee Simons is better as a shooting guard next to Damian Lilliard and SG Justise Winslow is better as a bench player and most likely better playing in Europe or China for someone else. The Blazers lost their last game to the Brooklyn Nets 11-97... not a lot of teams have done that.  In that game PF Jeremi Grant had 29 points, 4 rebounds, and 5 assists.  The backcourt of Simons and Winslow nabbed 15 and 14 points respectively… C Nurkic had 17 points and 14 rebounds.. But the game was never close.  Anfernee Simons as a point guard takes too many shots and misses too many of them to be very effective… SF Josh Hart rarely got hit on the wing for the easy shot in favor of Simons taking the hard shot.  This team NEEDS Lillard to come back and come back soon or they need to sign a backup point guard with some experience in the game. 



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Los Angeles Clippers VS Portland Trail Blazers Preview and Analysis

LAC: 12-9, 10-11 ATS, 5-16 O/U, 5-4 on the road.
POR: 11-9, 13-7 ATS, 7-12-1 O/U, 4-4 in home games.

Offensive Analysis

The Clippers are 30th in scoring with 106.4 points per game, 20th in rebounds with 43 per game, 28th in AST/TO ratio with 1.4, and 20th in blocked shots with 4.7 per game.

The Blazers are 22nd in scoring with 109.7 points per game, 22nd in rebounds with 42.7 per game, 26th in AST/TO ratio with 1.5 per game, and 27th in blocked shots with 4.0 per game.

Los Angeles Clippers VS Portland Trail Blazers Prediction

Our prediction for Tuesday, November 29th is…. Clippers 118 - Trail Blazers 100

Without Damian Lilliard in the line-up the Clippers will run over the Blazers.  It does not matter how many points Jerami Grant gets because the Team aspect of Clippers role players versus Blazers role players will win the day.  Bet on the Clippers.

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NBA Betting Trends

The Clippers are 5-2 ATS versus Portland the last 3 seasons.
The Clippers are 5 OVER and 16 UNDER in all games this season.
Portland is 9-2 ATS after 1 or more consecutive UNDER.

Players To Watch

Blazers: PF Jerami Grant.  A very talented young, big man.. Who simply has never made a difference for a winning team since being drafted in 2014 in the 2nd round.  He has had many big games in his career but he does not affect the win/loss column without a bigger star leading him.

Clippers: C Ivica Zubac… It is not likely that Ivica will get a game similar to his 31 pt 29 rbs performance in this game… But the writing's on the wall.  The Clippers have a ton of untapped potential outside of the stars that will be on the bench.  Ivica is god for a double double most nights and the Clippers love his game.

Coaches 

Clippers: Tye “ I'm the coach” Lue
Blazers: Chauncey “I’m cool all the ti8me” Billups


James Q

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James Q. has been involved with sports and gambling his entire life. A former division 1 scholarship basketball player, James understands sports (and especially basketball) inside-and-out. Following his basketball playing days, James parlayed his gambling skills into a semi-pro poker career. James resides in Los Angeles, and especially loves the Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Rams, and Los Angeles Dodgers. And when he isn't betting on sports (and writing about it), James can be found performing stand-up comedy on the Sunset Strip.

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