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(16-13) Portland Trail Blazers vs. Los Angeles Clippers (17-12)
Date: Monday December 17
Time: 10:30PM EST
Venue: Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA.
NBA Moneyline Odds: OFF
NBA Betting Odds: Clippers -1.5
NBA Betting Total: 221.5
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Portland Trail Blazers
Five consecutive seasons having lost in either the first or second round of the Western Conference playoffs, the Portland Trail Blazers don’t look much different than they did at the start of the era.
The Blazers did beat the East-leading and NBA-leading Toronto Raptors on Friday night in Portland. The Blazers won’t play again between that game and this one in LA.
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Damian Lillard’s march of steady progress certainly is impressive. His eFG percentage has gone up in each of the last four seasons, this one included, though he’s only a tenth of a percentage improved on 2017-2018.
But his turnovers are down and his scoring is the same, despite playing a minute less per game. He’s getting five rebounds per game for the first time in his career, too.
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Portland’s four factor numbers aren’t overly impressive, though. The Blazers’ strength is getting to the free throw line (.211 FT/FGA) and keeping opponents off the line (.178 FT/FGA).
Los Angeles Clippers
The Clippers played well in their most recent loss to Oklahoma City but it was still a loss, LA’s third in a row and fifth in the last six games.
Tobias Harris and Danilo Gallinari combined for fifty and Montrezl Harrell hit for twenty-one off the bench. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continued to struggle as he’s hit a bit of a rookie wall fairly early in the season with two points, assists and rebounds across the board.
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The Clippers’ issue, like it was a year ago, is defense. Los Angeles is toward the bottom of the league with a -1.6 relative defensive rating, which stacks the Clippers up against the rest of the league. It was an identical number a year ago when the Clips finished just two games above .500 and missed the playoffs.
Getting Luc Mbah a Moute back will help and losing Lou Williams for two weeks might too (defensively) but the Clips will miss Lou-Will off the bench. Guard scoring was already at a premium for Doc Rivers.
NBA Betting Trends:
- POR are 3-10 ATS in their last 13 games overall.
- POR are 5-16 ATS in their last 21 road games.
- POR are 9-3-1 ATS in their last 13 Mon. games.
- LAC are 8-3 ATS in their last 11 home games.
- Head to Head: Road team is 8-3 ATS in the last 11 meetings.
- Head to Head: Under is 7-3 in the last 10 meetings in LA.
Free Portland Trail Blazers vs. Los Angeles Clippers NBA Prediction: Portland in a rare road win.
I don’t know where the Clips will get their backcourt scoring. Harris and Galo can’t do it all.
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NBA Free Score Prediction: Portland 107 – Clippers 102
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