Sunday, January 22, 2012

NBA Premium Play 01/21: Sacramento Kings @ Memphis Grizzlies

NBA - 509 Sacramento Kings @ 510 Memphis Grizzlies

Projected lines: 193 points | Memphis by 13 points
Memphis' offense has been really well lately, as their offensive rates in their last 4 games have been 122.23, 110.72, 113.33 and 113.68, with 0.49, 0.49, 0.48, 0.56, 0.53 and 0.61 eFG% in their last 6 games.Yesterday at Detroit, the Grizzlies didn't even need to shoot from the outside. Memphis put pressure on the ball handler and the result was the expected: 14 steals, which originated 25 turnovers for Detroit, with Memphis taking advantage of that with 9-13 FG in transition! The Grizzlies are really in great form right now!

Sacramento is coming from a super win at San Antonio last night, where the Spurs simply failed on the outside with 4-16 FG from 16-23 feet and 5-25 3pts! That's 9-41 FG from the outside! On the other side, the Kings had a good interior game with 16-23 FG at the rim, which are normal numbers taking in account the bad rim defense of the Spurs. This time, they weren't hopeless from the outside, but still 5-21 3pts shows that they are still struggling from the outside. As usual, San Antonio didn't pressure the ball handler and Sacramento committed just 14 turnovers, which is an excellent mark for them.

These two teams have already faced each other this season and Memphis already without Randolph and with Conley banged up won by 17 points! This win was easy to explain: Memphis scored 72 points in the paint by taking advantage of the Kings pathetic rim defense that allows 70% FG at the rim! They also scored 21 fast break points, had 14 steals, with the Kings committing 19 turnovers! For today, we have both Evans and Thornton coming from a game where they played more than 40 minutes and against a super aggressive defense of the Grizzlies, this is a receipt for turnovers! Yesterday, San Antonio struggled because they couldn't hit their outside jumpers, but Memphis doesn't even need to shoot from the outside, as they will dominate the paint tonight with easy baskets! Meanwhile, the Kings will struggle from the outside as always and their interior game won't be good enough to compensate that, especially against a decent interior defense like the Grizzlies.

Therefore, I will be taking Memphis tonight, as I believe they will win this game very easily tonight. Considering the Grizzlies current form on offense and Sacramento's somewhat decent interior game, I came up with a totals projection of 193 points, high enough for me to take the over in here as well.

Pick: 3 units (Single Dime Play) on 509/510 Over 190 @ -110 / 1.91 on Bookmaker
Pick: 3 units (Single Dime Play) on 510 Memphis Grizzlies (-9,5) @ -110 / 1.91 on Bookmaker

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