Portland Trail Blazers vs Oklahoma City Thunder Picks and Predictions | NBA Best Bets For 1/23/24

Portland Trail Blazers vs Oklahoma City Thunder Picks and Predictions | NBA Best Bets For 1/23/24

There’s a rare NBA situation that’s occurring in one of the games tonight on Tuesday in fact it’s only happened in eight other games all season this year only happened 15 times last year only 13 times the season before that and it’s occurring in the Blazers and Oklahoma

City Thunder game I’m going to let you know if it’ll affect how you play this game but more importantly I will tell you which side to play in this game and make some money when you do so tonight on Tuesday hi I’m Steve Merill back here a wager talk TV part of wagertalk.com

And the situation I’m talking to is kind of a weird scheduling Dynamic and it’s ironic that it’s happening again tonight because it’s happened just two nights ago on Sunday and it almost happened last night in one of the solo videos I did here on the channel and that’s a

Team playing a isolated home game with several Road games before and after coming up on deck and that’s Oklahoma City tonight uh they’re coming off a three- game actually a four game Road Trip they played the Lakers Clippers Utah Minnesota so three cities but four different games and then on Deck

Starting tomorrow they’re at San Antonio New Orleans and Detroit so this is an isolated home game one home game in between seven Road games four and three on each side and it’s funny because I mentioned the Bulls were in that spot on Sunday when I did a standalone video

Yesterday for the Spurs Sixers games I mentioned that 76ers were kind of in that spot they had a couple home games they had a single home game after several Road games including a double on one side so it wasn’t technically three plus on each side but I had my colleague

Friend Ralph Michaels at wager talk.com run the database for me today on this situation and it doesn’t happen often uh but going back back all the way to 2013 it has happened about hundred and some times it has been more prevalent by the way since the covid rescheduling um

If you look back in 2019 it only happened five times and only five times in 2018 well since the co reschedule as I mentioned 1315 times the last two years already eight times this year in which a team has a single home game with three row games sandwiched on each side

And that’s the thunder tonight so let’s quickly look at the results at Ralph Michaels stat daddy the human database father of Jeff the pin the results he got for us going back to 2013 those teams are 56 and 47 straight up at home they win by about two and a half points

A game against the spread though they’re just 46 and 57 ATS 53 and 46 to the over so a little bit of an edge to the road team and a little bit of an edge to the over uh the margin of spread cover and over under was only about two to three

Points so once again I don’t put a lot of stock into it Ralph did pull up some excellent subsets though that I thought were interesting I’ll throw those out to you here on the video so you can add it to your handicapping Arsenal once again home favorites about 48.5% home dogs

Only 39% 8 and 17 um especially with rest so the best fade situation once again is a baseball angle we use Ralph Jeff and I talked about this during the baseball season that teams coming off extended road trips at home weren’t good but they were even worse as a home dog

Well it’s the same spot this one game Home Sandwich situation is worst the worst for home dog so obviously that doesn’t apply to Oklahoma City thunder tonight as they’re a 13 and a half Point big favorite but if you’re going to play this game I would still fade Oklahoma

City even though the database doesn’t necessarily make this a slam dunk the road teams have done better fading these single home teams and I think it makes sense the logic here is that when you return home off an extended road trip you have distractions family getting

Back to life but I think it’s even worse when you got to get right back on the road after that because then you got to really cram and get all the uh parental duties done all the household chores done anything else you might have to do

With the family and while back in town so I think it makes sense that these teams probably aren’t fully focused and now the Bulls were in that spot two nights ago on Sunday they took advantage of Memphis who was decimated with injuries so put a little Aster next to

That Philly was almost in the spot last night against the Hess Spurs they won by 10 but they failed to cover as a 13 and a half Point favorite and I think that’s going to be the same situation tonight I don’t think Portland’s necessarily going

To win this game outright but I do think Portland can stay within the double digit line currently 13 and a half and there’s a couple other reasons why not only do I think Oklahoma City will not be fully focused for this game but they’re coming off back-to-back wins at

Utah and at Minnesota both were close games minus three and plus three point spread so two big wins game on Deck tomorrow on the road so there’s no reason for them to run the score up they got to rest their key players and then on top of that the other little Factor

Here is that Oklahoma City has dominated Portland this year they won the first meeting by 43 points in November and then just two weeks ago they won the rematch by uh 139 to 77 and you got to get the calculator out to do that I

Don’t blame you that’s a what a 62o win so you know hard to imag Oklahoma City needs to blow him out in this game yes Portland does not match up well they’re a bad team but I just don’t see the Thunder being fully focused here it’s an isolated Standalone home game between

Three Road games on each side they have to play on the road tomorrow coming off big road wins back to back and they’ve blown out Portland twice if you’re going to hold your nose and play an ugly dog I think it’s the night with the Portland

Trailblazers take a look at him at plus the 13 and a half that game tips off at 8 o00 Eastern Tuesday night now that game didn’t make my card but I do have two other strong NBA best bets there’s only four of their games on the card

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Get ready for a clash of titans tonight as the Portland Trail Blazers (Rip City) head to the Paycom Center to take on the Oklahoma City Thunder (Loud City) at 8:00 PM ET! This Western Conference showdown promises electrifying plays and fierce rivalries, so buckle up for a battle in the heart of Oklahoma!

Here’s the scouting report:

Game: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder
Time: 8:00 PM ET
Location: Paycom Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Spread: Thunder -6.5 (as of 5:24 PM ET)
Total: 234.5 points
How to Watch: TNT, BSO
Twitter:
Portland Trail Blazers: @trailblazers
Oklahoma City Thunder: @okcthunder

Rip City Eyes Bounce Back After Back-to-Back Losses: The Blazers have stumbled lately, dropping their last two games. Jerami Grant and Anfernee Simons need to rediscover their shooting touch if Portland wants to silence the Loud City.

Thunder Aim to Extend Win Streak Against Blazers: Oklahoma City has dominated the Blazers this season, winning both previous matchups by an average of 18.5 points. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Josh Giddey will look to continue their stellar play and extend their streak against their Pacific Northwest rivals.

Will Anfernee Simons erupt and lead the Blazers to victory, or will Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s scoring prowess carry the Thunder to another win? Tune in tonight for an epic battle!

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