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2022 NBA Handicapping
(33-20) Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets (28-25)
Date: Saturday, February 5th
Time: 7:00 PM EST
Venue: Spectrum Center
NBA Moneyline Odds: Heat -154 | Hornets +152 (Bet Now!)
NBA Betting Odds: Heat -3.5
NBA Betting Total: 225
Saturday, February 5th the Miami Heat play the Charlotte Hornets for the second of four matches this season. Miami took the initial match on October 29th (114-99). The squads will play again in Charlotte on February 17th and in Miami on April 5th.
The Heat last played on Thursday defeating the Spurs 112-95 while the Hornets are playing a back-to-back set having lost 101-102 to the Cavaliers.
Last season, the squads played three times with Charlotte winning two of the three contests. The Heat holds the all-time record having bested the Hornets in 68 of their 114 matches.
Miami Heat
After missing 10 games Kyle Lowry returned to the court versus the Spurs and while his stats don’t jump off the page his impact is clear. He was rusty but the Heat netted 27 assists and much of it is tied to how Lowry gets everyone in their place.
Lowry posted a meager two points, adding three rebounds, four assists, and a steal with the rust most obvious via his six turnovers. Tyler Herro led the way with 24 points off the bench.
Jimmy Butler delivered 17 points, seven rebounds, and three assists while Duncan Robinson logged 17 points, three rebounds, three assists, a steal, and hit half his 3-pointers (4 of 8).
Bam Adebayo produced a double-double of 18 points and 11 rebounds plus three assists and four steals.
The Heat is waged in a war with the Bulls, 76ers, Bucks, and Cavaliers for the top seed in the East (and depending on the week the Nets as well) but have navigated their injury situation extremely well.
Jimmy Butler (toe) is probable, PJ Tucker (knee), Caleb Martin (Achilles), Max Strus (quad), and Omer Yurtseven (conditioning) are all questionable while KZ Okpala was downgraded to out for Saturday.
Markieff Morris (neck) and Victor Oladipo (knee) are out indefinitely.
Charlotte Hornets
In one of the wildest finishes of the season, the Hornets lost to the Cavaliers although neither team was very happy with the officiating. In clutch time the officials blew the whistle and Ed Davis (seated on the bench) grabbed at Terry Rozier who missed a 3-point shot.
Inexplicably, the refs counted the basket and assessed a technical ignoring the fact they blew the whistle long before the ball reached Rozier’s hands.
In the end, it didn’t matter as the point guard fouled Kevin Love who went to the line and sunk both free throws to put Cleveland up by one.
Charlotte tried an inbounds lob pass to Miles Bridges who hooked his arm through Jarrett Allen’s trying to draw a foul but the refs weren’t falling for hi-jinx twice in one game.
Rozier led scoring with 24 while Kelly Oubre Jr. offered 21 with LaMelo Ball (15) and Bridge (12) the other double-figure contributors.
Gordon Hayward returned to the lineup on Friday after missing six games in health and safety protocols.
Jalen McDaniels (ankle) is questionable for Saturday.
NBA Betting Trends:
- Miami is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games.
- Charlotte is 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games.
- The total has gone OVER in 7 of Miami’s last 8 games.
- The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Charlotte’s last 14 games.
Free Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets NBA Prediction:
Just two weeks ago the Hornets were flirting with moving up to the sixth seed and now they’ve fallen to ninth having lost three in a row and five of their last seven.
Having to face their division rival Heat isn’t going to make it easier to get out of this slump.
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