NBA - 503 New York Knicks @ 504 Chicago Bulls
Projected line: Chicago by 15 points
***DOUBLE DIME PLAY***
The Knicks are coming from another loss yesterday at home against the Sixers. They have once again no ball movement and a lot of problems in offense. In fact, they seem to be a much more dangerous team right now when Melo and Amare are on the bench! Chandler is back, but he is still clearly hurt and far from 100% physically. Amare refuses to take his shots when Melo is on the court and this makes Melo be an ISO king. Yesterday, against a good perimeter and ISO defensive team, the Knicks shot 3-13 FG on Isolation plays! They are also struggling in transitions and they shot just 5-12 FG in this kind of plays against the Sixers. Besides that, their inside game continues to struggle and they shot 13-26 FG at the rim. In conclusion, they have a lot of offensive problems, while their defense isn't good enough to compensate that right now.
On the other side, Chicago is coming from an easy home win against Utah, even when Deng, Noah, Watson and Hamilton. They had some problems in stopping the Jazz powerful frontcourt, as Utah shot 23-35 FG at the rim and 8-16 FG from 3-9 feet for a combined of 62 points in the paint. However, the backcourt edge of the Bulls was huge with a mega game by Korver with 10-16 FG! Chicago is having an excellent ball movement and it's going to be very easy for them to score against the poor defense of the Knicks. On the other side, Chicago's top defense will stop the Knicks' terrible offense with no problems as well. Therefore, I expect a blowout win for Chicago today and so I'll take them in here.
Pick: 4 units (Double Dime Play) on 504 Chicago Bulls (-8,5) @ -110 / 1.91 on Bookmaker
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