San Antonio Spurs at Phoenix Suns Betting Odds


Opening Betting Lines: Spurs +4 / Suns -4 O/U 203.5

Time: 10:30 PM EST Monday May 3, 2010 on TNT

Tonight in the 1st game of a Western Conference semifinals series the Phoenix Suns host the San Antonio Spurs. In their opening round series' the Suns beat the Portland Trailblazers in 6 games and the Spurs took care of the West 2nd seed Dallas also in 6 games.

The Spurs did not impress in the regular season, but they came up big in the series win over Dallas and may have another title run in them. The Suns are back to run-and-gun hoops and will have to score a lot to win this series, as they are not a good defensive team.

This season the Suns were 32-9 at home and 47-34-1 ATS and the Spurs were 21-20 on the road and 43-39 ATS.

In their last games, both Game 6 wins, the Suns beat the Portland Blazers 99-90 on Thursday night and the Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks 97-87 also on Thursday.

In the Spurs last 3 title years they eliminated the Phoenix Suns and will have to do so a 4th time for a chance to get another ring.

Suns' C Robin Lopez is a solid defender and he has missed the last couple weeks with a back injury. He may come back tonight, which would be huge, as he can really help from keeping Tim Duncan from having a big game.

This season the Suns beat the Spurs 2 out of the 3 times they played.

The Spurs really have to worry about Jason Richardson, who averaged 23.5 ppg against Portland in the 1st round and shot 51 percent from 3-point range. When Richardson scored at least 20 points this season Phoenix was 29-4.

San Antonio has to get back on transition D and not allow the Spurs to get easy fast point buckets.

Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, and George Hill will have to hit their open J's tonight to open up the Lane for Duncan to operate.

If the Spurs can slow the pace of the game and make it a half-court affair they have a great chance to win this game.

Betting Trends

San Antonio is 3-1-1 ATS in their last 5 games, 1-6 ATS in their last 7 playoff games as an underdog, and an Under record of 6-0-1 in their last 7 games.

Phoenix is 15-5-1 ATS in their last 21 home games, 8-2 ATS in their last 10 games as a home favorite of 0.5-4.5, and has an Under record of 4-0 in their last 4 games.

In the last 5 games between these 2 teams the total has gone Under 4 times

Our Selection : Take the Spurs +4 at 5Dimes.


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