Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
The Portland Trailblazers (12-8) hit the road on Monday night to take on the Utah Jazz (11-7), and these Western Conference foes are scheduled for a 9:00 PM ET tipoff. Utah will be the home team but they are only small favorites despite their 9-3 home record easily exceeding the 3-7 mark that the Trailblazers have amassed on the road this year.
Online sportsbooks currently list the Jazz as a 2.5-point betting favorite, having been bet up a bit after opening up at -2. The total hasn’t shifted since debuting and looks rock solid at 189. Portland has covered the odds in 11 of their 20 games this season, while Utah has only done the same in 9 of their 18. The Jazz also have gone over the total in exactly half of their games this season with Portland going under in 12 of 20.
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Utah is probably happy to be the Las Vegas betting favorite here considering that the team that is favored has covered the odds in 11 of the last 14 head-to-head meetings between the Jazz and the Trailblazers. The over has hit in 7 of the last 10 games played between these squads, but the most recent meeting went under when Portland won 98-87 on the road as 5.5-point favorites. The Trailblazers have now won 3 straight games against the Jazz, including the last 2 in Utah.
Portland has won 3 of their last 4 games this season, and they’ve covered the odds in their last 5 victories. The Trailblazers have gone under in 7 of their last 10 games, while Utah has went over the total in 4 of their last 5 while winning just 2 of those games. The Jazz have covered the betting odds in just 1 of those 5 games.
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