Dallas Mavericks vs Utah Jazz Prediction, Pick and Preview, April 23 (4/23): NBA

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Odds

Time	4:30 PM. EST
Mavs money line	+190
Mavs spread	+6
Jazz money line	-220
Jazz spread	-6
Over / under	212.5

 

 

2021-2022 season stats

	Dallas Mavericks	Utah Jazz
Record	54-31	50-35
Road / home record	24-18	29-13
Streak	W2	L2
Points per game	108	113.4
Points allowed per game	104.8	107.6
Rebounds per game	42.6	46.3
Rebounds allowed per game	43.6	43.2
Over / under record	33-50-2	39-45-1

 

 

Preview

Utah Jazz will be meeting Dallas Mavericks on Saturday in Utah, This will be their fourth game in the first round in this season. Utah Jazz won 99-93 in first game then Dallas won 110-104 at home and finally won game three 126-118 away. Luka Doncic is questionable for this game and he will be the key for Dallas to get another win if he plays.

Dallas Mavericks are playing great basketball at the moment even without their beat player Luka Doncic, Dallas ass playing such an unselfish basketball as 7 players scored 10+ points in that last game with the Jazz. Jalen Brunson came clutch once more for the Mavericks as he scored 31 points on 55% shooting from the field and Maxi Kleber had a heart shooting night with 17 points on 86% shooting from the field.

Utah Jazz are clearly not having their best days so far in this series as they have lost twice in a row as 6 points favourite against the Mavs. Donovan Mitchell had a good game though with 32 points on 48% shooting from the field but the bench didn't come through for the Jazz in this game as Dallas have a clear bench advantage and are missing a lot of threes which might be why they are losing right now. Utah shot 56% from the field but only 32% from the 3 Pointers and they will have to shoot better next time to have a chance to get back to tie the series.

Trends

Mavs are 8-2-1 ATS last 11 games this season.

Mavs games have gone Over in 8 of last 10 games.

Mavs are 6-1 straight up last 7 games.

Mavs are 7-1 ATS last 8 games vs Utah Jazz.

Utah are 3-10-1 ATS last 12 games.

Utah are 14-3 straight up last 17 home games.

Utah games have gone Over in 6 of last 7 games played at home on Saturday.

Utah are 1-8-1 ATS last 10 games vs an opponent in the southwest division.

Head to Head

Last 10 games between the Jazz and the Mavs are split 5-5 straight for each team but Dallas Mavericks are 7-3 ATS in thos games, Dallas is leading 2-1 straight up and ATS in this series so far with 2 Overs and 1 Under the total. The O/U is 4-6 to the under as Dallas are averaging 109.5 and Utah are averaging 109.7 points a game.

Prediction

Dallas Mavericks took care of business in the last game vs Utah Jazz even though the game was at Utah, Luka Doncic is likely to be back in this game and from what we have seen from Utah in this series is that they are not the same as they were in the regular season. Jalen Brunson is in form and played yet another great game to get the win for Dallas and i think Dallas can keep this one close at least if not winning so give me the Mavs plus the points. 

Pick: Dallas Mavericks +6 (-110)

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