Boston Celtics at Milwaukee Bucks Betting Odds
Opening Line: Boston +1 / Milwaukee -1 O/U 188
Time: 8 PM EST Tuesday March 9, 2010 on FSN-WIHD
Tonight in an Eastern Conference match up the Milwaukee Bucks host the Boston Celtics. The Bucks have been on fire for over a month and have won 3 straight games and are 9-1 in their last 10 games. At the end of January the Bucks were 3 games out of the 9th spot in the East, but since January 26th they are 15-4 and are now in the 5th spot in the East.
The Celtics are finally healthy with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett back in the lineup and they have won 4 straight and are 7-3 in their last 10 games.
This season the Bucks are 20-9 at home and a NBA best 40-21-1 ATS and the Celtics are 22-10 on the road and 23-36-2 ATS.
In their last games Boston beat the Washington Wizards 86-83 on Sunday and Milwaukee beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 92-85 on Saturday.
The Celtics have won 4 straight, but none of those wins were over teams that are in the top 8 in the Eastern Conference.
Boston has won 7 of their last 8 games against Milwaukee.
The Celtics have the top ranked defense when it comes to opponents' points allowed (93.8 ppg) and the Bucks are not too shabby on D ranking 7th (96.5 ppg).
Both teams win with their defense, as neither team can really light up the scoreboard with the Celtics rank 19th in scoring (98.4 ppg) and the Bucks rank 20th (98.1 ppg).
One player that the Celtics have to key on defensively is Andrew Bogut (16 ppg 10.3 ppg). When he scores at least 20 points Milwaukee is 14-3 this season.
Milwaukee has to play solid defense on the Big 3 of Ray Allen (16.5 ppg), Paul Pierce (17.7 ppg), and Kevin Garnett (14.4 ppg).
Brandon Jennings (15.8 ppg) may have broke out of his shooting slump in his last game, as in the win over the Cavaliers he scored 25 points and hit on 5 of his 7 3-point bombs. Before that he was only averaging 9.9 ppg on 29.7% shooting since the beginning of February.
Boston is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 road games, 8-3-1 ATS in their last 12 games as a road underdog of 0.5-4.5, and has an Under record of 4-1 in their last 5 games against teams with a winning home record.
Milwaukee is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 home games, 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games as a home favorite of 0.5-4.5, and has an Under record of 7-2 in their last 9 home games.
Boston is 1-4 ATS in the last 5 games in Milwaukee and 0-4 ATS in the last 4 games against the Bucks.
Our Selection : The Bucks have been on fire in recent weeks losing only 1 game of their last 10. The Celtics have picked up their game as well winning 4 straight, but the key here is the home court advantage. the home team has covered 4 of the last five and the line is reasonable at Betus at Bucks -1.5. Take Milwaukee -1.5
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