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**Udog** · 11-21-2017, 08:19 AM

Armadillo: Tuesday's six-pack

— UL-Lafayette 80, Iowa 71— Big win for the Sun Belt on the Cayman Islands.

— Marquette 94, VCU 83— Marquette shot 70% inside the 3-point arc.

— Wichita St 92, Cal 82— Young Golden Bears led by 18 early in 2nd half.

— Creighton 100, UCLA 89— Both teams took 30+ foul shots.

— LSU 77, Michigan 75– Entertaining nightcap in Maui Classic.

— Falcons 34, Seahawks 31— If playoffs started today, Atlanta wound be in them.

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Armadillo: Tuesday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but…….

13) Denver Broncos fired OC Mike McCoy Monday; no idea what happened behind closed doors, but it ain’t McCoy’s fault the Denver GM stocked the Broncos’ roster with lousy QB’s. Of course, the GM is John Elway, who fired McCoy.

12) I have this college basketball debate with myself, every now and then, comparing different head coaching jobs, as to which one is the better job to have.

Will Wade left VCU for LSU; now I’m 99% sure the $$$ is way better at LSU, but VCU’s coach still makes serious money, and VCU doesn’t have football, so basketball is king on their campus. Rams have sold out 100 straight home games, and they play in a league that gets multiple bids to the NCAA tournament.

Football will always be king at LSU; they’ve been in NCAAs in basketball twice in the last 11 years. Shaquille O’Neal, Pete Maravich and Ben Simmons played there, but despite those great players, LSU hasn’t won a whole lot at the national level.

If a friend of mine was a coach and was at VCU, think I’d tell him that it is better to be a big fish in smaller pond than the other way around.

11) Best way to know which players a basketball coach trusts the most: the five guys who are on the floor in the last 2:00 of close games. Much more telling than who starts.

10) Pac-12 North champ is 6-0 vs the Pac-12 South champ in the Pac-12 football title game.

9) Interesting conversation on a college football TV game the other night about the differences in high school football between Florida and Texas.

In Texas, coaches start coaching kids up in 6th or 7th grade, preparing them for the roles they’ll play for that high school— it is much more structured.

In Florida, there are much better athletes for the most part, with lot less coaching until they get to the high school level, or so these TV guys were emphatically claiming.

8) South Florida has 106 kids on its football team; 97 of them are from Florida, three are from Georgia. Six other kids are from six other states.

7) Robert Covington of the 76ers just signed a $62M contract; when he was a high school senior, he had only two scholarships offers, and went to obscure Tennessee State. He kept working hard on his game, had some good coaching along the way, and now is a very wealthy person.

Thats what can happen when you work hard and get some breaks along the way.

6) You know those Peloton commercials that are on all the time, the exercise bike commercials? What exactly is their advertising budget? How many bikes do they have to sell to break even?

5) Alex Rodriguez was the guest analyst on ESPN’s college football GameDay ten days ago, from the Notre Dame-Miami game; he went 12-0 with his picks.

4) Kid named Rashaad Penny is a running back for San Diego State; he had 429 total yards the other night against Nevada, scoring TD’s on both a punt return and a kick return. Quite a game for the young man, whose grandmother passed away earlier that morning.

3) They imploded the Georgia Dome Monday, the stadium that Falcons used to play in, but more importantly, the stadium where the Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV. No bueno.

Weather Channel set up a remote camera to broadcast the implosion, across the street from the site, but at the exact moment when the implosion was going to happen, a city bus stopped at a red light and blocked the camera’s view.

All you could see was the top of the bus and all you could hear was the camera guy cursing; the bus then pulled away, but the stadium had already been imploded.

2) In their first seven games, Buffalo Bills were 5-2 with a +14 turnover ratio; in their last three games, all losses, they’re -9 in turnovers, and lost field position by 13-18-22 yards.

1) In their last five games, Cincinnati Bengals ran a total of 244 plays; their opponents have run a total of 381 plays- thats 27 plays a game less than their opponents. Hard to win that way, but the Bengals did win two of those five games.

**Udog** · 11-21-2017, 08:29 AM

NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Tuesday, November 21

Chicago won six of last eight games with the Lakers, covered five of last seven; four of last five series games went over. Bulls are 3-2 vs spread in last five series games in Staples. Chicago lost six of its last seven games; they’re 4-3-1 as road underdogs. Three of there last four games went over total. Lakers lost five of their last seven games; they’re 5-5 vs spread at home, 1-1 if favored. Last three Laker games went over the total.

NBA

Tuesday, November 21

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Trend Report
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CHICAGO @ LA LAKERS
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago's last 5 games when playing LA Lakers
Chicago is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing LA Lakers
The total has gone OVER in 5 of LA Lakers's last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of LA Lakers's last 5 games when playing Chicago

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**Udog** · 11-21-2017, 09:38 AM

NBA
Long Sheet

Tuesday, November 21

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CHICAGO (3 - 11) at LA LAKERS (7 - 10) - 11/21/2017, 10:35 PM
Top Trends for this game.
CHICAGO is 263-319 ATS (-87.9 Units) in the first half of the season since 1996.
LA LAKERS are 129-93 ATS (+26.7 Units) after 3 or more consecutive overs since 1996.
LA LAKERS are 6-17 ATS (-12.7 Units) after playing 3 consecutive home games over the last 3 seasons.
LA LAKERS are 156-201 ATS (-65.1 Units) in home games when playing against a team with a losing record since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
CHICAGO is 3-1 against the spread versus LA LAKERS over the last 3 seasons
CHICAGO is 3-1 straight up against LA LAKERS over the last 3 seasons
3 of 4 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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**Udog** · 11-21-2017, 10:52 AM

NBA
Dunkel

Tuesday, November 21

Chicago @ LA Lakers

Game 701-702
November 21, 2017 @ 10:35 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Chicago
115.303
LA Lakers
115.077
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Chicago
Even
217
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
LA Lakers
by 6
210
Dunkel Pick:
Chicago
(+6); Over

**Udog** · 11-21-2017, 04:12 PM

NBA

Tuesday, November 21

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NBA Game of the Day: Bulls at Lakers betting preview and odds
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Chicago Bulls at Los Angeles Lakers (-6, 210)

Los Angeles rookie Lonzo Ball has put up a lot of clunkers through his first 17 NBA games but he also has two triple-doubles in the past five games. Ball will look to follow up a strong effort when the Lakers host the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday.

Ball had 11 points, a career-best 16 rebounds and 11 assists in Sunday's 127-109 victory over the Denver Nuggets while fully impressing coach Luke Walton. "It's what we've been saying the whole time, even when he's not scoring the ball, he has rebounds, assists and steals," Walton told reporters. "Sixteen is a lot, (but) I'm not totally shocked by it. He's really good down there on the glass." Chicago has its own talented rookie in forward Lauri Markkanen but his early season heroics haven't prevented the club from getting off to a porous start. The Bulls are a putrid 1-7 on the road after opening a four-game excursion with a 113-105 loss to the lowly Phoenix Suns on Sunday.

TV: 9:30 p.m. ET, NBATV, WGN (Chicago), Spectrum Sports Net (Los Angeles)

LINE HISTORY: The Lakers opened as six-point home favorites and, as of Tuesday morning, that number has yet to move. The total hit betting boards at 209 and has been bumped up to the current number of 210.

INJURY REPORT:

Bulls - PG D. Nwaba (Questionable, Ankle), PG Z. LaVine (Mid Dec, Knee), PF N. Mirotic (Late Nov, Face), PG C. Payne (Early Jan, Foot).

Lakers - PF L. Nance Jr. (Late Nov, Hand).

POWER RANKINGS: Bulls (0) - Lakers (-3.8) + home court (-3) = Lakers -6.8

CHAMPIONSHIP FUTURES:

Bulls +50,000
Lakers +20,000

ABOUT THE BULLS (3-11 SU, 7-7 ATS, 6-8 O/U): Markkanen scored a season-best 26 points and also collected 13 rebounds in the loss to Phoenix and has team-best averages of 15.6 points and eight rebounds. The 7-footer is scoring on the inside and also has knocked down 10 3-pointers over the past three games and is developing as the team's top scorer much sooner than expected. "I do like a lot of the spots that Lauri is getting the ball on the floor," Chicago coach Fred Hoiberg told reporters. "But when he's got it rolling like that (against Phoenix), we've got to make it a point to find him."

ABOUT THE LAKERS (7-10 SU, 8-9 ATS, 8-9 O/U): Power forward Julius Randle had a superb outing with 24 points, seven rebounds and five assists in the victory over Denver. Walton dissected the 22-year-old's fine performance and was wondering what the potion is to make that type of showing into a regular thing. "I'm trying to figure that out," Walton said. "Because when he plays like he did (Sunday), he's as good as anyone in this league."

TRENDS:

* Bulls are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 vs. Western Conference.
* Lakers are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 vs. Eastern Conference.
* Over is 8-3 in Bulls' last 11 road games.
* Over is 5-0 in Lakers' last 5 home games.
* Over is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings.

CONSENSUS: 78 percent of the spread wagers are on the home favorite Lakers while 68 percent of the totals selections are on the Over.

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