Miami Heat at Chicago Bulls Betting Odds


Opening Line: Heat +1 / Bulls -1 O/U 190.5

Time: 8 PM EST Thursday March 25, 2010 on TNT

Tonight in an important Eastern Conference match up in the Windy City the Chicago Bulls host the Miami Heat. The Bulls recently snapped their long losing streak and even though they are only 2-8 in their last 10 games they have won 2 in a row. Chicago really needs to keep winning, as they currently on the outside looking in being in the 9th position in the East 2 games back of Toronto for the 8th and last playoff spot.

The Heat have also won 2 in a row and are 7-3 in their last 10 games. The Heat are in the 6th spot in the East, but they are not out of the woods yet since they only lead 8th place Toronto by 1.5 games.

This season the Bulls are 20-14 at home and 35-33-2 ATS and the Heat are 16-18 on the road and 35-35-1 ATS.

Both teams won on Tuesday in their last games, as the Heat beat the New Jersey Nets 99-89 and the Bulls beat the Houston Rockets 99-88.

The Bulls have won 2 of the 3 games against the Heat this season both at home.

For the Heat to win Dwayne Wade (26.5 ppg) since Miami is not a high scoring team only ranking 25th in the league in scoring (96 ppg). He has not had much success in Chicago only averaging 17.7 ppg in 12 games at Chicago's United Center, which is his lowest average at and arena in the NBA.

Unlike Wade Jermaine O'Neal (13.8 ppg) has played great against the Bulls this season averaging 24.5 ppg and 11 rpg in his last 2 games against the Bulls and in his last 7 games he is averaging 17.9 ppg.

The Bulls also do not light up the scoreboard only ranking 23rd in the league in scoring. Luckily they have Derrick Rose (20.5 ppg), who is back at full strength after a wrist injury and in his last 2 games he has scored 23 points and 27 points respectively.

Both teams are decent on the boards and since neither team scores a ton of points the team that can win the battle of the boards has a HUGE advantage in this game.

Betting Trends

Miami is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games against teams with a losing record, 1-6 ATS in their last 7 games as a road underdog of 0.5-4.5, and has an Under record of 7-1-2 in their last 10 road games.

Chicago is 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games, 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games against teams with a winning record, and has an Over record of 7-3 in their last 10 home games.

In the last 4 games between these 2 teams the favorite is 4-0 ATS and in the last 4 games in Chicago the total has gone Under 4 times.

Our Selection : Take Miami +1.5


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