Portland Trail Blazers vs San Antonio Spurs Prediction, Pick and Preview, April 3 (4/3): NBA

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Odds

Time	7:00 p.m. EST
Blazers money line	+700
Blazers spread	+14.5 (-110)
Spurs  money line	-1200
Spurs spread	-14.5 (-110)
Over / under	231

 

2021-2022 season stats

	Portland Trail Blazers	San Antonio Spurs
Record	27-50	32-45
Road / home record	10-27	15-24
Streak	L6	W1
Points per game	107.44	113.18
Points allowed per game	115.09	113.29
Rebounds per game	43.49	45.40
Rebounds allowed per game	44.29	46.81
Over / under record	38-39	36-37-4

Preview

The Portland Trail Blazers travel to San Antonio to take on the Spurs on Sunday night. This is the fourth and last time time these teams face off this season, the Spurs have detroyed the Blazers this season, they beat them by doble digits all of the last 3 games.

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS

The Blazers have lost 6 games in a row and are only 10-17 on the road this season with a 27-50 record overall ranking 4th in the Northwest division. The Trail Blazers have gone 11-36 against Western Conference opponents. Portland is 12-18 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 13.5 turnovers per game.

Anfernee Simons (out of season) was shooting 40.5% from beyond the arc with 3.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Trail Blazers, while averaging 17.3 points and 3.9 assists. Drew Eubanks is shooting 67.3% and averaging 17.0 points over the past 10 games for Portland.

In their last 10 games the Blazers are 1-9, averaging 108.7 points, 41.9 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 10.1 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.4 points.me.

INJURIES: Nassir Little, Josh Hart, Jusuf Nurkic, Didi Louzada, Damian Lillard, Eric Bledsoe, Anfernee Simons, Joe Ingles, Justise Winslow and Watford are all out.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS

The Spurs have won 4 of their last 5 games but are only 15-24 at home so far this season. They have a 32-45 overall record and rank 4th in the Southeast. The Spurs are 22-25 in Western Conference games. San Antonio leads the Western Conference with 28.0 assists per game led by Dejounte Murray averaging 9.3.

Keldon Johnson averages 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Spurs, scoring 16.7 points while shooting 40.2% from beyond the arc. Murray is shooting 45.7% and averaging 25.1 points over the past 10 games for San Antonio.

In their last 10 games the Spurs are 6-4, averaging 117.4 points, 45.9 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 7.3 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.2 points per game.

INJURIES: Murray is questionable.

BETTING TRENDS

Portland are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games.

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Portland's last 6 games.

San Antonio are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games.

The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Antonio's last 7 games.

Prediction

The Blazers have been really bad, losing 9 of their last 10 games and have 11 players out with injuries. The Spurs could be without their best man Murray out again but they're still much better than the Blazers. However I'm not gonna trust 15 pts to the Spurs without Murray. I'm looking at the total on this one, the under is cashing lately for both teams and in the last 3 head to head they averaged 221 points, with both teams shorthanded, under is the play.

PICK: Under 231 (-110)

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