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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: 19 Losses: 23 Ties: 2
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 45%
Record updated Saturdays and Mondays
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Sometimes I can be a bit curmudgeonly and rely too much on common sense so there are a lot of things I don’t understand in this world. I don’t understand why it has taken me three phone calls and ninety minutes on the phone with Sprint just to order a Blackberry and I still don’t have it. I don’t understand why the US finishes below the mean in math and science testing and yet we have the brain power to start Google, Microsoft, Apple, and ratemypoo.com . I don’t understand how we can send a man to the moon yet we can’t find a viable alternative fuel source to oil. I don’t understand how people follow every move of Britney Spears and yet failed to properly mourn the death of Nipsey Russell by declaring his birthday a national holiday. And most of all I don’t understand anything to do with Harry Potter, Jane Austen, or mayonnaise.
That said, there are a few things in the NBA I also don’t understand. For instance, why can’t Dwight Howard shoot free throws? Seriously, the basket is 15 feet away from the free throw line and he is seven feet tall, how hard is it to arc a ball for 15 feet when you’re that height? Howard shoots 60% from the line and shoots 11.5 free throws per game so he basically gives away five points per game or 410 points per season. If he could get up to 80% from the line that would be three more points per game which often is the difference between winning and losing. So why can’t he just stand on the free throw line and practice for an hour a day or more? If I were the coach I would not let him leave practice until he hit 80 out of 100 free throws. I assume they have coaches working with him so why is he so bad? Maybe they should start docking him groupies. His game is so good yet his inability to shoot from the free throw line is like a hot chick with perpetual halitosis, so close to being dominant and yet so flawed.
Another thing I don’t understand is why NBA games are so poorly refereed and why the NBA doesn’t do anything about it. Even throwing out the Tim Donaghy effect, NBA officiating has sunk faster than the Titanic and even faster than Senator Larry Craig’s credibility. I understand that it is a difficult game to officiate because of the speed and size of the players and because there is pretty much a foul on every play but the refs need to sit down and just agree what is a foul and what isn’t. They need to be consistent. Instead, we get different calls made in different quarters and different rules for star players. We are also at the point where I don’t know why players even bother dribbling since they palm the ball up the court anyway (watch Tony Allen, I think he takes four steps between dribbles, and by dribbles, I mean dribbling off his foot). The fact that Violet Palmer still has a job is proof the NBA doesn’t care because she either doesn’t know the rules or has worse eyesite than a Cyclops with conjunctivitis. If I were David Stern, this would be my first priority, well this and “inspecting” the uniforms of the NBA dance teams to make sure they are properly delicious.
I also don’t understand how bad GMs get to keep their jobs for so long. Billy King was with Philly for ten years, imagine that. It would be like if a movie studio kept producing Pauly Shore movies for ten years and wondered why they never got an Oscar nomination. But it’s not just Billy King, it’s Billy Knight in Atlanta, and Isiah Thomas in New York, and Kevin McHale in Minnesota. How have these guys had their jobs for so long? They are so unbelievably incompetent, they make Joseph Hazelwood look like Admiral Horatio Nelson and Mayim Bialik look like Bar Refaeli. What makes the least sense is that NBA owners are successful people who have made a lot of money through smart business decisions. So how do they let such bozos run their teams for so long?
The last thing that confuses me about the NBA is the end of game plays teams run in close games, and by plays I mean giving the ball to their best player and letting him go one on five. It makes no sense. The clear out isolation play for the all-star in tie and close games makes me more confused than I was at the end of Gogol’s Dead Souls ( I mean come on Nikolai, couldn’t you have least finished the last sentence?). I understand wanting to have your best player take the last shot, but how about running him off screens or going with a pick and roll? This kind of basketball started with Michael Jordan but he was Michael Jordan so you could do that. Just once with ten seconds to go and a team down by one, I would like to see a coach diagram a play with ball movement and player movement instead of having a guy dribble the ball at the top of the key for seven seconds and then trying to go one on five. Could someone do this just once?
Friday Night Picks:
Phoenix -7 at Washington:
The Wizards have been playing surprisingly well without Arenas as Caron Butler has picked up the scoring slack. That said, the Suns will simply roll over the Wiz. Washington has no answer for Stoudemire and only questions for Nash. Phoenix will go up by 20 at the half so you just have to hope Marcus Banks, Eric Piatkowski, and Tim Kempton can hold off the late Wizards run.
Memphis at New Orleans -6.5:
I am officially on the New Orleans bandwagon even though I still confuse them with Charlotte 45% of the time. If New Orleans is the team with Chris Paul, David West, and Tyson Chandler, then they should easily win this game. Memphis suffers from what I call shittyplayeritis and unfortunately for them, that will only get worse with Chris Wallace as their GM. The Whornets on the other hand have a nice little team with a solid rotation and a yeoman-like bench headed up by the human contact high Melvin Ely who is single-handedly trying to make blood shot eyes the next big fashion statement. Take the Whorenets and root for Peja drain some threes.
Milwaukee +1 at Seattle:
The Bucks owe me one for choking against the Knicks last Friday night. We had a long discussion this week and they let me know that tonight is when they make it up to me. The Sonics have nobody to stop Michael Redd and the front court strength to bother Durant all night. Teasing this with over 197 is a good play but teasing Mike Tyson probably isn’t.
Miami at Golden Shower State Over 210:
I really want to take the Warriors -10 but there is a small chance the Heat can stick with them tonight as Dwyane Wyane Wade is set to go off. Eventually Wade is just going to say screw you guys and drop a 50 point game. The Warriors are the hottest team in the NBA right now thanks to the returns of Stephen “Bad News” Jackson and Matt “I can’t believe he is really good” Barnes. Take the over and enjoy the track show.
Saturday Night Picks:
Phoenix -10.5 at Minnesota:
There are so many things not to like about this game including Phoenix playing on the second of back to back nights on the road and likely not getting up at all to play the TerribleWolves. That said , we have two rules this year and two rules only: 1. We are taking the Spurs at home and giving the points against any bad team and 2. We are giving the points to the TerribleWolves against any good team or pretty much any team. Just hope Amare plays hard tonight.
Boston -5.5 at Chicago:
The Bulls are playing better. They beat the Pistons in Chicago last night and have won four out of five. The Celtics played in Boston last night but did rest their starters for the entire fourth quarter so they should be prepared. With Garnett returning to Chicago where he played some of his high school basketball he should be even more focused than usual. The Celtics defense should clamp down on the Bulls and presumably hold them under 80 points (so you may want to tease this with the under) so as long as Pierce, Allen, and Garnett combine for 60 points, they should win with ease. This game could get ugly enough that the Bulls call Ronnie Fields down from the hot dog stand to play the 4th quarter.
Sacramento at Denver Under 216.5:
The Kings are without their leading scorer, Kevin Martin, for 4-6 weeks with a groin injury he received thanks to an overzealous chickenhead (or he simply landed on it wrong in a game, you make the call). Without Martin, there is mo way the Kings break 100 points so unless the Nuggets drop 116, this is not going over. Just hope the Nuggets 2nd team doesn’t shoot well when they are in the game after Denver goes up 15 in the fourth. You could tease this with the Nuggets -12.5 but there is a chance that the Kings slow it down enough to keep it within 10.
Memphis at Atlanta -4.5:
The Hawks are really not very good but neither is Memphis and Memphis is coming off of a tough overtime loss last night. I know this is the second night I am picking against the Grizzlies, but do you blame me? If the Hawks can just push the ball and Joe Johnson can shoot it well, they should win by six.
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