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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS
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AC's Wagercom 2007-2008 NBA Picks Season Record
Wins: 15 Losses: 19 Ties: 2
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 44%
Record updated Saturdays and Mondays
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AC'S NBA 2007-2008 WEEK 5 PICKS:
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We’re a month into the NBA season and we are starting to see some patterns emerge. The Celtics are really good, the TerribleWolves are really bad, and Kobe hasn’t raped anyone yet. The biggest surprise though has been the utter disappointment that is the Chicago Bulls. It’s hard to say exactly what is wrong with Chicago because they don’t shoot well, they don’t defend well, and they don’t appear to be coached particularly well (though I have liked Skiles’ work in the past). They’re not quite the Titanic but they’re certainly worse than Ishtar or country music.
Leading the Bulls in their ineptitude are Luol Deng and Kirk Hinrich who also head the list of the five biggest underperforming players this year in the NBA. Below is a look at that list.
Five biggest underperformers:
Luol Deng: Deng was set to break out after last year’s playoffs in which he averaged twenty two points and nine rebounds while shooting 52% from the floor. Then he went to Europe this summer as part of a UN charity and had so many positive stories written about him that you would have thought he was the Pope, Al Gore, or Melissa Midwest. The problem with his European jaunt is that apparently he forgot to practice or he let his head get too big or he simply ate too many krumpets and mayonnaise sandwiches at Pret A Manger. This year his stats have regressed back to those of his rookie year and he is not leading this Bulls team anywhere but to the lottery. I really don’t know what is wrong with Deng right now but he needs to be more aggressive.
Kirk Hinrich: Hinrich is an old AC favorite. AC has been touting Kirk since he saw Kirk play as a rookie with the Bulls and make the right pass every time despite his less than stellar teammates. Hinrich’s biggest problem this year is he simply can’t shoot. He was never a great shooter but he is shooting 35% from the field and 20% from behind the three point arc. Add in an assist to turnover ratio below two for the first time in his five year career and you have an NBDL player. I haven’t seen anyone regress this much since Steve Guttenberg started doing after school specials. So what is wrong with Hinrich other than he likely has the only name in NBA for which there are no anagrams (and I find this very bizarre)? It’s really hard to say since shooting can be streaky but unless Hinrich finds his stroke soon the Bulls season may be over.
Nenad Krstic: Krstic is coming back from knee surgery so he has an excuse but there is no excuse for losing playing time to Jamaal Magloire who calcified about three years ago. Magloire is so stiff he makes Rigor Artis Gilmore look like he could star in Crique de Soleil. In fifteen minutes a night Krstic is averaging five points and three rebounds per game, far from his sixteen and seven of last year in thirty minutes a night. AC understands that it is difficult to come back from knee surgery but Krstic is just plain awful right now. I am willing to give him another couple of months before I fully write him off but unless he returns to form, the Nets will struggle to make the playoffs.
Larry Hughes: Once again Hughes is injured proving that he has the weakest vagina in the league. The Cavaliers have had a lower return on investment on Hughes than the Germans did with the Hindenburg or Paul McCartney did with that one-legged lady he married. The thing is, even before the injury Hughes was terrible this year. In six games he was averaging seven points, two assists, two rebounds, two turnovers, and shooting twenty nine percent from the floor. Those are simply awful numbers, in fact they are subprime mortage-esque.
Mikki Moore: While Mikki Moore is no Jerome James, the Kings certainly should have been smarter than to sign him to a three year $18MM contract. I mean as long as you are going to throw money away, why not waste it on booze and strippers (umm, since the Maloofs made this signing, it is possible they already wasted $18MM on booze and strippers so I guess this answers the ancient conundrum of how do you blow $18MM after dropping that much on booze and strippers? So we can think the Maloofs for that.)? Moore is a journeyman center who put together one marginal year last year with the Nets but when you are seven feet tall, apparently you only need to play sixty half decent games to make bank. No surprise then that Moore has regressed back to his norm as his stats are down in all areas despite playing the same amount of minutes per game.
Other candidates: The whole New York Knicks team, Delonte West, Raja Bell, Jason Williams (who has been replaced by Chris Quinn in the starting line-up, and let me tell you, if Chris Quinn ever replaced me in anything I would think long and hard about my life), Channing Frye, Ryan Gomes, and Mehmet Okur.
Friday Night Picks:
Milwaukee -1.5 at New York:
I don't care that the Knicks will be playing for Isiah's job tonight, actually I do. The Knicks players are sick of Isiah and will collapse tonight like they did last night against the Celtics. I have never seen a team give so little effort in an NBA game so early in the season as the Knicks did last night. Even I was embarrassed and I have called out Isiah and the Knicks' players for years. It is a team poorly put together and poorly coached. They are the Britney Spears of the NBA except for the fact that some people can still get drunk enough to bone Britney while no one can get drunk enough to root for the Knicks. Take the Bucks, hope they can withstand the early run by the Knicks, and hope Bogut and the front court play defense. I am sorry the Isiah error is going to come to an end but I do look forward to him running the WNBA soon.
Boston -3.5 at Miami:
The Celtics are rested and ready to avenge their buzzer beating victory over Miami earlier in the year. Actually, is it possible to avenge a win? That is how good the Celtics are this year that a close win feels like a loss. Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen got enough rest in last night's blow out of the Knickcompoops that they were probably able to stay out in South Beach until 8am this morning and will still be fine. Take the Celtics and watch them run Miami into the ground.
San Antonio -9.5 at Minnesota:
Three things we do every week: 1. Pick against the TerribleWolves 2. Take the Spurs and give the points against bad teams (though not usually on the road) 3. Search for free pass words online for www.bangbus.com. So why would this week be any different? Even though the resurgent play of Antoine Walker has rallied the Wolves a bit (and yes I mean that), Tim Duncan should shut down Al Jefferson and the Spurs guards will easily handle the TerribleWolves backcourt. This should be a laugher, the only concern is that the Wolves come back in scrub time as Duncan will likely play less than 2 quarters.
Portland at Dallas Under 198:
Portland hates scoring like Shawn Kemp hates wearing protection. Plus, once Dallas goes up 30, the scrubs will come in and it will get sloppy. You could tease this with Dallas -12 if you're feeling lucky, or if you're really feeling lucky you could just take the under and your winnings and spend a day at The World Famous Mitchell Brother's O'Farrell Theatre. Godspeed.
Saturday Night Picks:
Dallas -4 at New Orleans:
I don’t like anything about this game, nothing, but the NBA schedule tonight is not betting friendly. Both teams are playing on the second of back to back nights so anything could happen. The safer bet might be the under 193 but I have a feeling Dallas is going to want to prove themselves here. Plus New Orleans has only defeated two good teams all season.
Philadelphia +8.5 at New Jersey:
Ugh, this game is just awful. The Sixers are coming off of a win last night while the Nets were resting up watching reruns of What’s Happening Now (pun intended). The one thing I know about the Sixers is that they always play hard so I don’t expect them to win but they should keep it close. Just root for my boy Lou Williams to find his stroke.
Detroit at Milwaukee Under 193:
The Bucks blew a 10 point 4th quarter lead to the Knicks last night which is like buying a fat girl drinks all night, getting her to your apartment, and then having her tell you you’re not her type. I will never forgive the Bucks for that.
Minnesota at Memphis Under 212.5:
It was either this, Memphis -9, or the Whorenets +6.5 in Chicago so I don’t really know what else to tell you. Just hope Memphis plays any kind of defense and hope that Pau Gasol bothers Al Jefferson just enough to keep him under 20 points.
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