*** Golden State Warriors @ Utah Jazz *** Best Play of the Month

Golden State Warriors @ Utah Jazz

Hate to break it to you GS lovers, but the Warriors have had the softest NBA schedule in league history. They’ve blown out a lot of opponents, but a lot of bad opponents. 18 Games into the season, they’ve faced just 3 teams in the top 10 in defense. And luckily for them, all 3 of those games were at home. The Jazz boast a top 3 defense in the league and now Golden State won’t have the luxury of playing at home this time. Let’s look at those 3 games:

• vs Raptors – A game that was tied very late in the 4^th Q. (Home game for Warriors)
• vs Bulls – A game the Bulls were leading late in the 4^th Q before a late surge. (Home game for Warriors)
• vs Pistons – This game was close in the 4^th Q as well before a late surge. (Home game for Warriors)

Besides those 3 games, the team defense of their opponents ranks as follows: 

29^th, 28^th, 29^th, 13^th, 19^th, 23^rd, 30^th, 13^th, 18^th, 20^th, 19^th, 23^rd, 27^th, 26^th, 30^th. Tonight they will face at #3 Utah without Harrison Barnes.

This will be the 5th straight day at home for Utah while the Warriors have went from Phoenix, to San Francisco, now to Utah in those same 5 days. The Jazz have the Magic in 3 days leaving them nobody to look ahead to and are playing well coming off two back2back double-digit victories.

Golden State’s lines are now totally inflated as well due to all their blowouts. A healthy Thunder team was +1 in Utah just a week ago, and we are to say the Warriors are 9 points better? For what reason exactly, we already proved above they’ve beaten nobody. The real reason is due to public perception and their win streak. 

Utah will have great value in the next several games as 10 of their first 14 games were all on the road. This means their wins/losses and ATS wins/losses are factored using mostly road games and conversely will play better at home. The time to back Golden State was in the first 5 weeks against the easiest part of their schedule, not now. The Warriors have beat the Jazz 7 of 8 times the last 2 seasons but I fully expect the Jazz to get some revenge tonight.

• Jazz +8 
• Jazz +305