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**Udog** · 06-02-2021, 05:52 AM

Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack

Major league leaders in RBI:
46— Jose Abreu, CWS
45— Vladimir Guerrero Tor
44—Trey Mancini, Balt
43— Rafael Devers, Bos
41— Adolis Garcia, Tex
40— Shohei Ohtani, LAA

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Armadillo: Wednesday's Den: Mid-week musings……..

13) Genius alert: A fan ran onto the court, jumped up and touched the backboard while the 76ers-Wizards game was going on Monday night. Security tackled the guy and got rid of him.

The whole thing seemed fairly harmless, but this kind of stuff has to stop, before someone runs on the court with more malicious intent; someone is going to get hurt. Players have a right to protect themselves, and players are mostly very large people.

If you go to a game, stay in the stands, but in any event, if you can’t handle your alcohol, just stay at home.

12) Long, long time ago, during a Baltimore Colts game, I think it was a playoff game, guy ran on the field and took the football in between plays. Colts had a linebacker named Mike Curtis who just totally crushed the guy with a tackle. Knocked him flat. Guy was so drunk he bounced right back up- after that, no one ran on the field and took the football.

11) Baltimore Orioles have now lost 14 games in a row; they’re 5 for their last 64 with runners in scoring position.

10) Montreal 3, Toronto 1— Maple Leafs blew a 3-1 series lead, losing Games 5-6 in overtime, then losing Game 7 at home; they haven’t won a playoff series of any kind since 2004.

9) Wizards 122, 76ers 114:
— Philly leads series 3-1, but Joel Embiid (knee) didn’t play the second half.
— Ben Simmons was 5-11 on the foul line. This bothers me.
— Wizards won despite Russell Westbrook going 3-19 from the floor.

8) Ben Simmons is a career 59.7% free throw shooter; I’ve coached high school kids who weren’t any good who shot better than that. Simmons is one of the five best passers I’ve ever seen; he is very, very skilled, but for whatever reason, he doesn’t shoot the ball well.

Few years ago, Showtime ran a 90-minute special on Simmons, about the period in between his year at LSU and his getting drafted by the 76ers. Was very anxious to see the special, wanted to like the kid, but fact of the matter, he wasn’t very likeable.

Shooting is something that can be learned with hours in the gym, just hard work and proper technique. Charles Barkley said it last night “You can’t be considered a superstar if you can’t shoot the ball”.

7) Utah 120, Memphis 113— Jazz take 3-1 series lead, making 17 of 34 3-pointers.

6) Looking ahead to college basketball for a minute, The Spectrum Center in Charlotte will host a pretty good quadruple-header on December 17th:.

St. Bonaventure/Virginia Tech
Richmond/NC State
Wake Forest/Charlotte
East Carolina/Liberty

5) Bad Luck Department: You know you’re going bad when the Mets are coming to town, and they get rained out Sunday, which means Jacob deGrom pitches against you Monday, when he was supposed to pitch Sunday and wasn’t supposed to pitch in this series.

Arizona has now lost 14 of its last 15 games.

4) Cubs’ 1B Anthony Rizzo hasn’t played the last six days because he has a stiff back; not sure why they’re not just putting him on the 10-day injured list. That way, they wouldn’t have to play a man short every single day.

3) Over the last 30 years, pitchers who averaged least pitches per inning in a season:
12.2— Carlos Silva, 2005 Twins
12.3— Greg Maddux, 1997 Braves
12.3— Bob Tewksbury, 1992 Cardinals

2) Since 2019, National League players with most RBI:
203— Freddie Freeman
179— Nolan Arenado
176— Eduardo Escobar

1) If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
NL: Mets-Cubs-Giants. Wild Card: LA @ San Diego
AL: Rays-White Sox-A’s. Wild Card: Clev/Hst @ Boston

**Udog** · 06-02-2021, 05:53 AM

**Udog** · 06-02-2021, 06:00 AM

531ATLANTA -532 NEW YORK
NEW YORK is 18-2 ATS (15.8 Units) in home games when the line is +3 to -3 in the current season.

533DALLAS -534 LA CLIPPERS
LA CLIPPERS are 76-56 ATS (14.4 Units) versus good ball handling teams - committing <=14 turnovers/game in the last 3 seasons.

535MEMPHIS -536 UTAH
UTAH is 11-1 ATS (9.9 Units) in home games after successfully covering the spread in 3 or more consecutive games in the current season.

537WASHINGTON -538 PHILADELPHIA
WASHINGTON is 17-5 ATS (11.5 Units) in road games as a dog of 3.5 to 9.5 in the current season.

NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Wednesday, June 2

Washington @ Philadelphia
Wizards
— Hachimura had 20 points, 13 rebounds in Game 4.
— Wizards outscored Philly 33-22 on foul line last game.
— Over is 4-1 in Washington’s last five games.
— Westbrook had 21 rebounds, 14 assists in Game 4; he’s a guard.
— Wizards were 11-46 on the arc in Games 3-4.

76ers (lead 3-1)
— Embiid (knee) is ??able here; check status
— 76ers won 13 of their last 16 games (10-6 ATS).
— Ben Simmons is 5 for his last 20 on foul line.
— Philly shot 56% from floor in Game 2, 59% in Game 3, 41.7% in Game 4.
— Over is 5-1 in Philly’s last six games.
— Washington was +9 on boards in Game 4.

— 76ers won last seven of last eight series games.
— Wizards are 3-2 ATS in last five visits to Philly.
— Three of four series games went over the total.

Atlanta @ New York
Hawks (lead series 3-1)
— Hawks won 10 of last 11 games (8-4 ATS).
— Gallinari was +17 in 25:00 off bench in Game 3.
— Under is 6-0-1 in their last seven games.
— Atlanta outscored Knicks 35-22 in third quarter of Game 4.
— Hawks covered once in last seven road games.

Knicks
— New York shot 35.8% from floor in Game 3 loss, 42% in Game 4.
— Knicks were down 13 at half in Game 2, only series game they won.
— Under is 8-2-1 in New York’s last 11 games.
— Knicks are in playoffs for first time in eight years.
— First four games, Randle was only 20-73 from floor; he was 7-19 Sunday.

— Knicks had beaten Atlanta 4 in row before this series.
— Hawks are 1-4 ATS in last five trips to Manhattan.
— Under is 3-0-1 in this series so far.

Dallas @ LA Clippers
Mavericks (series 2-2)
— Mavericks won 11 of their last 16 games.
— Mavericks are 6-2 ATS in last eight road games.
— Over is 7-2 in last nine Dallas games.
— Doncic scored 31-39-44 in first three games, 19 in Game 4.
— Dallas was 55-109 on arc in Games 1-3, 5-30 last game.

Clippers
— Clippers lost eight of last 14 games, but won last two.
— You’re reading ***************.com
— Clippers are 1-5 ATS in last six home games.
— Over is 4-2 in last six Clipper games.
— Clipper starters were combined minus-134 in first two games, they were even in Game 3, then +98 in Game 4.

— Road team won all four series games.
— LA is 6-5 SU in last 11 series games.
— Dallas is 3-1 ATS in last four road series games.
— Under is 6-2 in last eight series games.

Memphis @ Utah
Grizzlies
— Memphis won eight of its last 12 games SU, but lost last three.
— Grizzlies are 9-6 ATS in last 15 road games.
— Over is 5-0 in last five Memphis games.
— Jazz held Morant to 23 points in Game 4.
— Grizzlies took 43 3’s in first two games; they took 76 in Games 3-4.

Jazz (lead series 3-1)
— Utah won 10 of its last 13 games SU.
— Jazz is 4-8 ATS in its last dozen home games.
— In Game 1, Utah was 12-47 on arc; they were 55-117 in Games 2-4.
— Over is 8-3 in last 11 Utah games.
— In Game 4, Clarkson scored 24 points in 22:00 off bench.

— Utah won eight of last nine series games (6-3 ATS)
— Memphis is 2-4 ATS in last six visits to Utah.
— Over is 8-1 in last nine series games.

NBA

Wednesday, June 2
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Trend Report

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Washington @ Philadelphia
Washington
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Washington's last 11 games when playing on the road against Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Washington
Philadelphia is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home

Atlanta @ New York
Atlanta
Atlanta is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Atlanta's last 7 games
New York
New York is 12-2 SU in its last 14 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New York's last 6 games at home

Memphis @ Utah
Memphis
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Memphis's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Memphis's last 5 games when playing on the road against Utah
Utah
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Utah's last 5 games when playing at home against Memphis
Utah is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing Memphis

Dallas @ LA Clippers
Dallas
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Dallas's last 8 games on the road
Dallas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against LA Clippers
LA Clippers
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of LA Clippers's last 8 games when playing Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of LA Clippers's last 8 games at home

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**Udog** · 06-02-2021, 07:14 AM

NBA
Dunkel

Wednesday, June 2

**Satch** · 06-02-2021, 09:28 AM

ATLANTA (44 - 32) at NEW YORK (42 - 34) - 6/2/2021, 7:35 PM
Top Trends for this game.
ATLANTA is 27-44 ATS (-21.4 Units) in road games over the last 2 seasons.
ATLANTA is 18-41 ATS (-27.1 Units) in road games in all playoff games since 1996.
ATLANTA is 12-28 ATS (-18.8 Units) in road games in the first round of the playoffs since 1996.
ATLANTA is 10-22 ATS (-14.2 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.
ATLANTA is 3-12 ATS (-10.2 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record - 2nd half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
ATLANTA is 20-36 ATS (-19.6 Units) in road games versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game over the last 2 seasons.
ATLANTA is 7-17 ATS (-11.7 Units) in road games versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game - 2nd half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 47-27 ATS (+17.3 Units) in all games this season.
NEW YORK is 19-8 ATS (+10.2 Units) as a favorite this season.
NEW YORK is 24-12 ATS (+10.8 Units) in home games this season.
NEW YORK is 37-25 ATS (+9.5 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 45-24 ATS (+18.6 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game this season.
NEW YORK is 21-10 ATS (+10.0 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game - 2nd half of the season this season.
NEW YORK is 45-20 ATS (+23.0 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game this season.
NEW YORK is 22-10 ATS (+11.0 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game - 2nd half of the season this season.
ATLANTA is 42-34 ATS (+4.6 Units) in all games this season.
Head-to-Head Series History
NEW YORK is 10-3 against the spread versus ATLANTA over the last 3 seasons
NEW YORK is 9-5 straight up against ATLANTA over the last 3 seasons
8 of 14 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

DALLAS (44 - 32) at LA CLIPPERS (49 - 27) - 6/2/2021, 10:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
LA CLIPPERS are 101-77 ATS (+16.3 Units) as a favorite over the last 3 seasons.
LA CLIPPERS are 45-32 ATS (+9.8 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.
DALLAS is 472-385 ATS (+48.5 Units) as an underdog since 1996.
DALLAS is 45-26 ATS (+16.4 Units) in road games over the last 2 seasons.
DALLAS is 244-193 ATS (+31.7 Units) in road games revenging a loss vs opponent since 1996.
DALLAS is 602-517 ATS (+33.3 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record since 1996.
DALLAS is 61-41 ATS (+15.9 Units) in road games versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game over the last 3 seasons.
LA CLIPPERS are 259-311 ATS (-83.1 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record - 2nd half of the season since 1996.
Head-to-Head Series History
LA CLIPPERS is 12-8 against the spread versus DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
LA CLIPPERS is 12-8 straight up against DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
10 of 20 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

MEMPHIS (41 - 37) at UTAH (55 - 21) - 6/2/2021, 9:35 PM
Top Trends for this game.
UTAH is 44-32 ATS (+8.8 Units) in all games this season.
UTAH is 42-30 ATS (+9.0 Units) as a favorite this season.
UTAH is 24-14 ATS (+8.6 Units) in home games this season.
UTAH is 18-8 ATS (+9.2 Units) after 3 or more consecutive wins this season.
UTAH is 41-27 ATS (+11.3 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game this season.
UTAH is 37-28 ATS (+6.2 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game this season.
MEMPHIS is 43-33 ATS (+6.7 Units) in all games this season.
MEMPHIS is 24-15 ATS (+7.5 Units) in road games this season.
MEMPHIS is 34-18 ATS (+14.2 Units) against Northwest division opponents over the last 3 seasons.
MEMPHIS is 40-27 ATS (+10.3 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game this season.
MEMPHIS is 23-14 ATS (+7.6 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game - 2nd half of the season this season.
MEMPHIS is 41-27 ATS (+11.3 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game this season.
MEMPHIS is 15-6 ATS (+8.4 Units) in road games versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game - 2nd half of the season this season.
Head-to-Head Series History
UTAH is 8-7 against the spread versus MEMPHIS over the last 3 seasons
UTAH is 10-5 straight up against MEMPHIS over the last 3 seasons
10 of 15 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

WASHINGTON (36 - 42) at PHILADELPHIA (52 - 24) - 6/2/2021, 7:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
WASHINGTON is 153-194 ATS (-60.4 Units) off an upset win as an underdog since 1996.
PHILADELPHIA is 41-32 ATS (+5.8 Units) in all games this season.
PHILADELPHIA is 34-24 ATS (+7.6 Units) as a favorite this season.
PHILADELPHIA is 23-14 ATS (+7.6 Units) in home games this season.
PHILADELPHIA is 22-10 ATS (+11.0 Units) in a home game where the total is greater than or equal to 220 over the last 2 seasons.
PHILADELPHIA is 23-13 ATS (+8.7 Units) when playing against a team with a losing record this season.
PHILADELPHIA is 38-28 ATS (+7.2 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game this season.
PHILADELPHIA is 33-17 ATS (+14.3 Units) in home games versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game over the last 2 seasons.
WASHINGTON is 44-32 ATS (+8.8 Units) in all games this season.
WASHINGTON is 44-31 ATS (+9.9 Units) when the total is greater than or equal to 220 this season.
WASHINGTON is 28-15 ATS (+11.5 Units) after scoring 115 points or more this season.
WASHINGTON is 40-27 ATS (+10.3 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game this season.
WASHINGTON is 24-10 ATS (+13.0 Units) versus poor defensive teams - allowing 106+ points/game - 2nd half of the season this season.
WASHINGTON is 36-27 ATS (+6.3 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game this season.
WASHINGTON is 19-10 ATS (+8.0 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game - 2nd half of the season this season.
PHILADELPHIA is 22-34 ATS (-15.4 Units) versus good offensive teams - scoring 106+ points/game - 2nd half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
Head-to-Head Series History
WASHINGTON is 7-6 against the spread versus PHILADELPHIA over the last 3 seasons
PHILADELPHIA is 10-3 straight up against WASHINGTON over the last 3 seasons
7 of 12 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

**Udog** · 06-02-2021, 09:45 AM

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