NBA FREE Pick: 555 Utah Jazz @ 556 Indiana Pacers
Rating: 2 Units – Regular Play
Pick: 555 Utah Jazz (+6)
Price: -106 / 1.94 on Betonline
Write Up:
Utah is coming for this game from a pair of terrible losses against Minnesota and Chicago. Their 3-big lineup hasn’t been working on both ends of the floor and due to Kessler’s injury, Utah’s coach has decided to change the structure and play with one more guard. The Jazz have been a terrible team at taking care of the ball (I assume that the decision of playing with one more guard is to fix this issue) but the truth is that Indiana’s defense is a conservative unit that doesn’t try to create turnovers (#29 in TO/rate opp). Both Collins and Markkanen will also be a tough matchup for this Indiana team.
Utah’s defense has been terrible and if they had come to this game with their usual lineup, they would have serious problems in transition against this Indiana team. However, that won’t happen as I have said before. The Jazz has one of the worst FT/opp rates in the league but Indiana isn’t that aggressive. I expect a fired up Utah team tonight in a game against an Indiana team that has already shown this season that they aren’t very focused in games against lowly teams. They blew out the Spurs in their last game, but previously they had lost at home against Charlotte…