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AC TITTICOCK'S WEEKLY FREE NBA BASKETBALL PICKS AND WINNERS
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AC's Wagercom 2008-2009 NBA Picks Season Record
Wins: 13 Losses: 11 Ties: 0
NBA Picks Winning Percentage: 54%
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AC'S NBA 2008-2009 NBA FREE PICKS WEEK 3:
With the markets treating me like Unlucky Pierre, I am in a bad mood. It is impossible to make investments when the market is not trading on any type of fundamentals, but rather on fear, panic, and hedge fund redemptions. With daily swings greater than 10%, the market has become more volatile than Ron Artest after drinking three 40s of St. Ides Special Brew and losing his wallet in a strip club. I simply can’t take it anymore and because of my distress I will be doing two things.
First I will be praying to the great Nipsey Russell in the sky to make this all stop. Nipsey, the markets are bad, not getting better with time, I’d like it to change, so I wrote you this rhyme. Secondly, I will be taking out my frustration on the NBA by once again investigating the things I hate most about the league. So sit back, put all of your money under your mattress, and enjoy.
1. The length of games is just too long. The Celtics-Nuggets game was two hours and twenty five minutes last night. I recorded it on my DVR and watched it in a little under an hour. Games used to average slightly over two hours, which was perfectly acceptable but the extra fifteen minutes of commercials are just too much. Here are a list of things I could do in two hours and twenty five minutes: Drive from Philadelphia to Atlantic City and lose 60 hands of poker, bone Kim Kardashian 187 times, cure cancer. An NBA game should not be as long as those three things, it just shouldn’t. Cut the commercials or go to running time for all but the last 2 minutes of the half.
2. Only 25% of the players try on a nightly basis. Guaranteed contracts plus weed plus a sense of entitlement leads to most NBA players giving less effort on a nightly basis than Shannon Tweed did in Illicit Dreams (you sleepwalked through that one Shannon, sorry, but you did). Unfortunately, there is no way to fix this other than getting rid of guaranteed contracts or putting everyone on the same team as Kevin Garnett. In the Celtics-Nuggets game last night there is no way you can tell me JR Smith cared one bit about what was going on in the arena except for what the hot chick three rows deep was doing later that night.
3. The refs are not just horrible, but biased. Star players get more calls, rookies get fewer calls, the home team gets all of the calls. It is a joke. An NBA referee once explained to me that they let star players take an extra step and call it a “pro walk.” No joke. This is ridiculous. Everybody should play with the same rules, this shouldn’t even be an issue. Does LeDong really need more help?
4. Violet Palmer. I am all for equal rights and opportunity, but Violet is simply the worst ref in NBA history and not because she is a woman but because she just makes the wrong call every time. She has set the female in sports movement back more than Pam “4th Game in the Big Ten” Ward or more than Rachel Phelps. David Stern, I know you are reading this and I implore you to take Violet off of the courts for the good of the game, please, I beg you.
5. Overcoaching. I know coaches get paid a lot of money, I know they want to be on TV, but jeesh guys, it’s not rocket science. Doc Rivers won an NBA title proving that you just need to be competent enough and have the right players. Mike D’Antoni has it right. Here’s a ball, go run with it. We don’t need time outs every ten seconds at the end of games, we don’t need players looking to the sideline on every play, we don’t need the lethargic slowing down of offenses. I am fine with coaches teaching the fundamentals and setting up their defense and running plays, but at some point you have to let the players play. Even Red Auerbach couldn’t win with 75% of the teams in the league, so unless you have the players, it just doesn’t matter.
FRIDAY NIGHT FREE NBA PICKS
Philadelphia at Indiana -1:
I have said it in this space before, but we are firmly on the Indiana bandwagon until the oddsmakers figure it out. Tonight is not our favorite time to take the Pacers though because they don’t match-up well with Elton Brand and Samuel Dalembert, and because Andre Miller is the veteran type point guard who can take advantage of TJ Ford by posting him up. Plus Danny Granger missed the last game with some type of quad injury while Troy Murphy has missed the last two games with vaginitis, or the flu, whichever. This should be an entertaining game to watch and you may want to tease the Pacers with the over (just don’t tease them with jokes about Roy Hibbert’s momma, I hear they don’t like that). Speaking of Hibbert, I am excited for a potential Hibbert/Dalembert match-up where they turn the ball over amongst themselves for ten straight minutes. Take the Pacers and keep it quiet.
Atlanta -3.5 at New Jersey:
I don’t care that this smells of a trap game worse than Kim Kardashian’s anus smells of Reggie Bush. I know the Hawks are due for a let down game after losing their first game of the year on a last second shot to the Celtics. I know Josh Smith is still out. I know Zaza Pachulia is likely out. I know the Hawks bench is thinner than a bulimic anorexic on a diet. I know Devin Harris is back for the Nets. I know all of these things, and yet I am going to take the Hawks and give the points. I am a total sucker for this game and I readily admit it.
Milwaukee +4.5 at Memphis:
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4. Always take the points against the Grizzlies unless the other team is from a place that rhymes with Minnechoda.
So we’ll take the points here with hopes that Scott Skiles can fire up his team to stave off an embarrassing loss to the Grizz.
Washington at Miami Under 197:
For the life of me I can not figure out how the Wizards can break 100 points. I thought that maybe if they played a high school team they could do it, but it would have to be a high school made up exclusively of midgets, and midgets who can’t dribble or defend. Given that, you’ll probably need 110 out of the Heat to reach the over here and as much as I like Dwyane Wyane Wade, getting 80 from his supporting cast is a lot to ask. Take the under and root for some bricks.
SATURDAY FREE NBA PICKS
First of all, I want to thank the Pacers for ruining my night. I have been riding the Pacers all season and was feeling good about their 20 point lead in the first quarter against a sleepwalking Philadelphia team, especially as the line was only one. But then the Pacers just completely choked like all good Jim O’Braindead teams do. I guess that teaches me a lesson about dancing with the devil. Vegas is still missing on Indiana, but I am not sure when I will be able to sit down again after what they did to me last night.
Portland -2 at Minnesota:
Greg Oden went for a double-double last night with 4 blocks. I am intrigued to see if he can slow down the Big Lazy, Al Jefferson. The Blazers may struggle in the second of back to back nights, especially as there are rumors that the TerribleWolves® may fire their coach, so one would think Minnesota would play with energy. That said, the Blazers are a good team and a deep team, the opposite of the TerribleWolves®. We love picking against Minnesota when the line is less than 7 and last I checked 2 was less than 7. Take the Blazers and enjoy Rudy Fernandez.
Indiana +6.5 at Chicago:
I could punish Indiana by not picking them for what they did to me last night, but that would just be cutting my nose to spite my face. The Pacers are being underlooked by every bookie, we have been through this before, and tonight should be no different. The Bulls are a disjointed, dysfunctional team with a coach who is in way over his head. The Pacers play a frenetic style of basketball which the Bulls have yet to see (think Phoenix Suns with worse talent) and Chicago will not adapt to this early enough. We’re riding the Pacers again tonight, but this may be our last hurrah.
New Orleans at Houston -2:
I’ve stayed away from the Rockets this year because they are still trying to find themselves like a 19 year old girl who has slept with the entire football team. However, Houston is at home after 5 straight road games and for that reason, I expect them to come to play. I have no idea who is going to stop Chris Paul, but if the crowd can get into this early, the Rockets should be able to pull away (as opposed to just pulling my finger).
Boston -9 at Milwaukee:
The Celtics have played about 13 back to back games already this year and are probably as tired as my writing. They just got smoked at home in the last 4 minutes of the game by Denver’s bench players because they simply didn’t focus. If Boston does not come out in shut down mode tonight, I will be very surprised. Rondo should be more aggressive going to the hole on Luke Ridnour than he has been and Kevin Garnett should abuse Andrew Bogut in ways that make even me blush. Take the Celtics and hope their bench can keep the double digit lead.
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