San Antonio Spurs at Miami Heat Betting Odds


Opening Line: TBA O/U TBA

Time: 7:30 PM EST Tuesday March 16, 2010 on NBA TV

This season the Heat are 20-14 at home and 34-33 ATS and the Spurs are 15-15 on the road and 32-32 ATS.

Tonight in a non-conference match up the Miami Heat host the San Antonio Spurs. Both teams are playing well lately, as the Heat have won 3 in a row and are 6-4 in their last 10 games and the Spurs have also won 3 straight and are 8-2 in their last 10 games.

Miami is tied for 6th place with Charlotte in the Eastern Conference and San Antonio is in the 7th position in the West only ½ game ahead of Portland and ½ game behind Phoenix.

The Spurs have to keep winning to move up in the West, as they do not want to face the Lakers or even the Mavericks or Nuggets in the 1st round of the playoffs.

This season Miami is 20-14 at home and 34-33 ATS and San Antonio is 15-15 on the road and 32-32 ATS.

In their last games the Heat beat the Philadelphia 76ers 104-91 on Sunday and the Spurs crushed the L.A. Clippers 118-88 on Saturday.

The Spurs are getting great play from George Hill (12.1 ppg) since he became the starter when Tony Parker (16.5 ppg) was lost for the season with a hand injury. Hill is averaging 16.6 ppg while shooting 63.2% (12 for 19) from 3-point land in his last 7 games.

Michael Beasley (15.3 ppg) has missed the Heat's last 2 games, but should be back in the lineup tonight. Miami could really use his offense, as they only rank 26th in the league in scoring this season.

Dwayne Wade (26.5 ppg) needs to have a good scoring game, but he also needs some help on offense, as he cannot do it all himself.

The Spurs are a better team on the boards with a rebounding differential of +3.0 rpg and the Heat are at +0.8 rpg. Jermaine O'Neal (13.6 ppg 7.2 rpg) and PF Udonis Haslem (9.5 ppg 7.6 rpg) have to play good D on Tim Duncan (18.7 ppg 10.4 rpg) and now allow him to get easy buckets in the paint and dominate the boards.

Betting Trends

San Antonio is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 road games, 7-0 ATS in their last 7 games, and has an Under record of 5-1 in their last 6 games.

Miami is 5-0 ATS in their last 5 home games, 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games, and has an Over record of 6-0 in their last 6 home games.

In 8 of the last 9 games between these 2 teams in Miami the total has gone Under.

Our Selection : Pass


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