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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS |
Contact AC at ac@wagercom.com
02/27/04 Week 18 Free NBA Picks Against the Spread
I am excited to announce the addition of our new NBA Basketball expert analyst AC Titticock. While leafing through resumes prior to selecting our new NBA Basketball gambling expert it became clear that AC was the man for the job. Not only did his analysis come across entertaining but it was clear he knew the NBA and about betting on basketball. I am confident you will find his outlook on the NBA extremely useful especially when it comes to his weekly free NBA Basketball picks against the spread. AC will be providing us with a weekly outlook and his free NBA Basketball picks on some of the weekend games each Friday and sometimes Saturday as well.
AC has started the NBA betting season with a 48% winning percentage against the spread on his NBA basketball picks after 102 games.
NBA BASKETBALL WEEK 18
First Isiah almost turns around the Knicks and now my girl Rosie O’Donnell is getting married (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040226/480/nyet22502262308&e=5) and yes I just threw up in my own mouth). Seriously, what has this world come to? Am I going to wake up tomorrow and find that Mad About You is coming back on the air (and please, if I wake up and that has happened, somebody, anybody shoot me, please, I beg you)? Of course all of this makes me wonder just how many cranes they are going to need to bring in Rosie’s wedding cake. However, this is a basketball article and this week we can talk about the emergence of Brandon Hunter (17 points, 9 rebounds in his first start, way to leave him on the bench O’Braindead), the end of the winning streak of Lawrence Frank (14 games almost beat out Morgan Magic for the 1988 Sox), or my boy Kobe and his recent scoring streak.
However, I’d rather spend this time evaluating the top 5 breakout players (not including rookies) of the first half of the 2003-2004 season.
Michael Redd: He’s everybody’s favorite underdog. SI ran a piece on him and his accomplishments and as all great writers do, I am now going to copy them. Redd can flat out shoot. He was talented at Ohio State but I thought he had the Big Ten Shawn Respert disease (score a lot against Northwestern and then get shut down in the Pros). However, Redd can play and has quietly led Milwaukee to a solid season. I think this Bucks team can contend for the Eastern title and no I am not sniffing paint fumes. He has gone from 11 to 15 and now to 22 points per game over the past 3 years. Redd can ball, now if only he could hook up his former backcourt mate Scoonie penn, he would get my MVP vote.
Zach Randolph: Everybody but me thought Zach would tear it up and it looks like I’m the bonehead here. Zach has increased his scoring from 8 to 20 points per night and has also more than doubled his assists and rebounds per game. The guy can play. He is what Chris Webber should have been 8 years ago, a talented and lethal inside force.
Andrei “I must break you” Kirilenko: 17 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, and one Mohawk per game. Andrei is kickin it in the league Moscow style. Losing Stockton and Malone should have hurt the Jazz but Andrei can do it all.
Joe Johnson: Chris Wallace, being the genius that he is, drafted Joe Johnson, Joe Forte, and Kedrick Clown in the first round two years ago and kept the two losers of the bunch. Wallace unceremoniously dumped Joe Johnson two years ago for short timers Rodney “In never saw a doughnut I didn’t like” Rodgers and Tony “I can’t dribble” Delk. Yeah, it gave the Celtics a marginally better shot in the playoffs but they gave up a talent that is hard to come by. Since the Suns traded Marbury, Johnson has been throwing in 20 a night while both rebounding and dishing out the ball. Though he is often knocked for being passive (ie. he’s probably smoking way too much pot), he has talent. Great trade by the Suns but fleecing Chris Wallace is like beating a one legged man in an ass kicking contest (props to Mr Dangerfield on that one).
Corey Maggette: Who knew Duke players could ball in the NBA? Maggette’s in his fifth year but still only 24 years old and he is now scoring over 20 a game. He can shoot and drive and may be the best player out of Duke since Danny Ferry (yes that was sarcasm).
On to the free NBA picks for Friday:
I went 3-0 last Saturday night so if you all listened to your boy AC, you would have been paid.
New York at LA Clippers -3.5:
Hmm, the Knicks have lost 6 out of 7 so maybe the Isiah Thomas bandwagon is not what it was a week ago. The Knicks beat the Clippers by 6 a few weeks ago in NYC but it won’t happen again. Take the Clips and enjoy rooting against team Isiah.
Indiana +1 at New Orleans:
New Orleans has shut the Pacers down twice this year so I expect Carlisle to have his team ready. I’m not sold on the Hornets. Pacers by 3.
Atlanta +13.5 at Detroit:
Yes, Atlanta is terrible with a capitol Putrid but I refuse to give an NBA team13.5 points.
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