Against The Spread Play – Los Angeles Lakers at Portland Trail Blazers

December 5, 2019

Los Angeles Lakers 19-3 at Portland Trail Blazers 9-13

10:35PM EST

Opening Line: Lakers -3.5 and 221.5
Current Line: Lakers -3.5 and 221.5

This is quite frankly a line that makes zero sense with the Lakers expected to be at full strength. The Blazers remain a mediocre or worse western conference team and they are not a team that’s been dominant at home. They’re just 4-4 on the season there while the Lakers are bringing a 10-1 road record. The Lakers are best in the league in defensive efficiency and also top six in offensive efficiency and we are getting a gift with this line being in single digits, let alone 3.5. Crazy things can happen but this is a smash play.

Thursday Review

We got the pace we thought we were going to get. Betting over 233 we went into overtime tied at 125. The final ultimately landed on 271 in a win without much sweat. Those are the best kind.

  • ✅Over 233

The win brings us to 27-18 on the season.

TJ Calkins was raised in a gambling loving household. He knew how to handicap horse races and follow line movements well before his tenth birthday.

 

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