Happy Easter and Happy Passover to all. As the betting industry follows the latest news on the government Gestapo arresting famed former Philly Mayor Frank Rizzo's son-in-law Joseph V. Mastronardo and other gambling news, sensational handicapper Matt Rivers has a free sports pick on the New Jersey Nets plus the points at Washington.
Backing the Nets as only a small dog on the road and on a back-to-back does not constitute a great value at all. Therefore this is the low of the low in terms of comp plays but the Wizards are terrible and to get anything back here with New Jersey is a play.
Washington's 22-53 record is clearly better than the 11 win Nets but right now New jersey is the far better overall team. Devin Harris and Brook Lopez are both borderline All-Star players and Courtney Lee, Yi Jianlian and a few others are pretty good as well. These guys have now won three of their last five games and are playing at a much higher level over the past few weeks as we saw in the easy outright yesterday against Chris Paul and the Hornets.
The Wizards no longer have Arenas, Jamison or Butler and are probably the worst NBA franchise in the league right now as they just have nothing at all going for them. Andray Blatche can be awesome in the middle but the guy is a headcase and cannot be fully trusted. Al Thornton and Randy Foye are NBA players which is more than a lot of their teammates but they are not guys that anybody is scared of. Overall the Wiz are a glorified D-League squad right now and I'm not really sure if there is any light at the end of this tunnel.
Flip Saunders' boys did not have to play last night so they should be the fresher team on the court but that isn't the end all as the Nets are the well superior team that can easily win this game so I'll scoop up whatever points I can with the visitors. The Wizards have won one game since February, literally, so to get points from them is enough for me.
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