Cleveland Cavaliers vs Brooklyn Nets Prediction, Pick and Preview, April 12 (4/12): NBA

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Odds

Time	7 p.m. EST
Cavaliers money line	+320
Cavaliers spread	+8.5
Nets money line	-400
Nets spread	-8.5
Over / under	228.5

 

 

2021-2022 season stats

	Cleveland Cavaliers	Brooklyn Nets
Record	44-38	44-38
Road / home record	19-22	20-21
Streak	W1	W4
Points per game	107.8	112.9
Points allowed per game	105.6	112.1
Rebounds per game	44.2	44.4
Rebounds allowed per game	42.8	44.1
Over / under record	36-44-2	41-41

 

 

Preview

Brooklyn Nets will be meeting Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday in Brooklyn for the first game of their play in tournament as the winner will be facing Boston Celtics in first playoffs round and the loser of this match will be having a second opportunity to play the winner of Atlanta Hawks and Charlotte Hornets game for a playoffs spot to play Miami Heat.

Cleveland cavaliers are in a terrible form lately as they lost 8 of last 10 game this season and covered only 3 of last 12 games ATS wise. The Injuries have been affecting the team badly and they still have Jarrett Allen out for this game but Evan Mobely is expected to play in this one which will definitely help them against this Brooklyn team that got Kyrie Irving back at playing home games again and I'm sure he will be ready for this one alongside Durant.

Brooklyn Nets have been shaky too in the last period of the season, they covered 2 of last 8 ATS games but they have been winning outright with 4 wins out of last 5 games. Kyrie Irving is back to playing home games and Kevin Durant have been in a phenomenal form that they will definitely need in this playoffs if they go through. Dragic and Seth Curry are probably for this game while Ben Simmons and Joe Harris are still out.

Trends

Cavaliers are 3-6 ATS last 9 game.

Cavaliers are 3-8 straight up last 11 games this season.

Cavaliers games have gone Over in 12 of last 18 games.

Cavaliers are 1-6 ATS last 7 road games.

Brooklyn are 2-6 ATS last 8 games this season.

Brooklyn games have gone under in 4 of last 5 games Vs opponents from the Eastern conference.

Brooklyn games have gone under in 5 of last 6 games.

Brooklyn are 4-1 straight up last 5 games.

Head to Head

Last 10 games between the Nets and Cavaliers ended in 7 wins for the Nets to only 3 for Cleveland (3-1 for the nets this season) although the Cavs covered 5 ATS of those games and lost 4 with 1 push. The O/U is 6-4 to the Over with the Cavaliers averaging 116.5 and Brooklyn averaging 119.1 points a game.

Prediction

This is a hard game to predict ATS wise, I think the Nets will win this game but the line seems on point in my opinion here, what I like thought is the Under in this game. I think this will be a playoffs atmosphere kind of game with good defense from both teams. Brooklyn's games have been heading that way lately and I like that to continue here Vs the Cavaliers whose defense isn't as good as it was at the beginning of the season but they will have to play good defense to have a chance here so give me the under.

Pick: Total Under 228.5 points (-110)

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