Do Your Homework and Super Trends

On this site I like to try and provide some insight on how to handicap basketball and to share some of the techniques I use on a daily basis.

Tonight I look at doing homework on a game after it is over.

Many handicappers will do research before a game and then bet it and never look at it again. I suggest you look at the box score at a minimum when a game is complete. I want to look at some of last night’s selections in the NBA. I had the Bulls -1 as my top play and they were up by 5 with a minute to go and ended up losing in overtime. Does that make my Bulls selection a bad play? No. In fact I feel really confident that I was on the right side of this but the Bulls got caught napping. So what do I get out of this in the future? Well a couple of things.

1) I may want to think twice if I am going to take the Bulls in a low lined game. Low lined games will usually mean they could be close or the teams are evenly matched. Until the Bulls can perform in crunch time I will have to consider this.

2) I grabbed something positive out of this loss last night. The Kings benched played horrible last night and the starters all played over 40 minutes last night which could leave them vulnerable for tonight’s game against Memphis especially in the second half.

Two lessons I have learned that I can use in the future, which shows why it is important to do your homework.

Here are some NBA super Trends for Tonight’s games.

The Celtics are 0-10 ATS at home after two home wins

The Nuggets are 10-3 ATS versus a team they beat as an underdog in their previous same season match-up

Minnesota is 10-4 ATS when on a 2+ game SU and ATS losing streak

The over is 8-1 for the Wizards after a loss that broke at least a three game winning streak

And the trend of the night: When NEW JERSEY team played as a Road team - Before a conference game - After a non division game - Coming off 1 ATS lost they are 38-23-1 ATS!