*** NBA Wednesday ***

What a choke by Portland....backups deserve to be cut when they blow a spread like that 

Portland always does this 

Wow...cant catch a break 

They just don't care they were like laughing and mavs scored over and over

Bad beat both games............

okc the most oxymoron team ever. they comeback to go over time but can't score in OT! energy wasting. 

they won't go far in playoffs

Wtf that was just garbage 

I posted a 40u play and won today Lol . If u follow someone with a good record it doesn't mean u will benefit from it. They may not do well the moment u follow them

The problem of playing this late in the season, Portland playing with a garbage lineup pretty much the whole 4th quarter.

Dang. Had an Orlando/Portland parlay.

This is why I only risk small money on basketball. Id say at least 60% of ATS covers are decided by nonsense in the last few minutes - meaningless FTs, bench scrubs, and teams with leads who stop playing properly. So many times i see this season, teams would rather keep passing and run the clock down and shoot a contested 3 then take any type of good shot. Then they often give up an uncontested layup on the other end because they are too afraid to get called for a foul which would stop the clock. Wpuld have happened there too only portland stole it.

I had a feeling Celtics were the side earlier too, because I played on them vs Denver they got smoked, played against Philly last night they won. Trying to cap these teams based on scheduling is a nightmare they just dont stick to the regular formulas. Boston as a home fave they burn every ticket.

Neither of these teams will get past the Bucks or Raptors, I'm sure of that.

Anyway college is better to bet on this time of year, done with trying to figure out which teams will try to win what games for playoff positions etc. You just dont know. NBA playoffs are probably the best time of year to bet, save your money for that is my advice unless you can stomach teams blowing leads constantly and having meaningless 3s and FTs at the end by bench dorks decide if you win or lose.

Gotta love those Backdoor covers if your on the right side of em lol

Why don't you do your own studying and research on games and if you don't agree with a cappers pick then pass..nobody forcing you to place a bet..smh

Ouch that hurt....

Hate Portland right now how the fck did that happen?

Anyone who just tails someone else and doesnt do their own homework deserves what they get. No one forces anyone to bet. If you gamble you're trying to basically get free money. That's lazy in itself. To then not even study the stats, watch the games, etc yourself is even more lazy.

Or you could just take the opposite side if you think someone isn't any good.

For the reasons I listed in my last post in this thread the NBA is full of these types of stupid things happening. Basketball is a game played by dudes who dont really care about playing right, they are young, overpaid, often not very bright boys from the hood who just want to be swaggy. They care even less about covering spreads. And the nature of the game means the scorelines change dramtically in short spaces of time.

If you cant stomach sweating out the last few possessions and the shenanigans involved, dont bet basketball. This happens ALL the time in the sport.

Like I said earlier, playoffs, or march madness are better because teams try the whole time, but the same ridiculous  things do happen  (it's called march madness for a reason),  and on top of that the refs tend to operate on a Madden type  of   level, where they make whatever calls will keep the game closer and thus more exciting.

Teams like Portland and Houston especially are lethal for these types of backdoors. They never met a long 3 ball they didnt like. It just depends on whether they hit the one you need at the end where they could have got a layup instead but wanted to run clock. Portland missed that shot tonight. Deal with it. Other nights it will go in. Thats why its called gambling.  Thats why oddsmakers are no dummies. Look at that game, or the Philly game, or the Philly Charlotte game last night. All those spreads were decided by the result of a single play on the last possessions for the teams.

close to unfathomable

They did it again, I didn't win a lot of money in a 10 games parlay, the last of them was Portland-Suns -12.5. 31 points ahead after 3/4 of the match and 21 points ahead with 2 minutes left.