Sean's 10* NBA DIVISION GAME OF THE WEEK!
- Handicapper
- Sean Murphy
- League
- NBA
- Competition
- New Orleans Pelicans vs San Antonio Spurs
- Time
- 11/23/2022 08:10 PM
- Bet Type
- Point Spread
- Pick
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San Antonio Spurs +7.5 (-105)
(BetMGM)
- Outcome
- Loss
- Analysis
- Division Game of the Week. My selection is on San Antonio plus the points over New Orleans at 8:10 pm et on Wednesday.
The Spurs are limping home off an 0-5 road trip but I'm confident they can bounce back and give the Pelicans all they can handle on Wednesday night. It's not difficult to see that San Antonio's problems mostly lie at the defensive end of the floor. All five of the Spurs opponents on their most recent road trip shot better than 51% from the field. All is not lost, however, and I do think we see them turn it around, relatively-speaking, sooner rather than later. Note that San Antonio has actually held four straight opponents to 85 or fewer field goal attempts. On the flip side, the Spurs have managed to knock down 41 or more field goals in three of their last four games. Those two factors would have you thinking they would have at least been able to fare better than their 1-3 ATS mark over that stretch. I expect things to start to level out for them from an ATS perspective as they return home. Note that the Pelicans have been vulnerable defensively as well, allowing six of their last nine opponents to make good on 40 or more field goals. They quite simply shot the lights out in a rout of the Warriors (who were resting their stars in a back-to-back spot) two nights ago. Nothing came easy for them against the Spurs last season as San Antonio went 3-2 SU and ATS in five meetings, getting off 91, 93, 89, 92 and 91 FG attempts along the way. Take San Antonio (10*).
