NBA Playoff Betting Preview Game 6 Boston Celtics at Chicago Bulls

Published on April 30, 2009 by admin · No Comments

The scene moves to Chicago on Thursday for Game 6 in the NBA Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series between the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls. Tip off time is scheduled for 7PM Eastern Time with TNT Televising. The Celtics lead this best of 7 series 3-2 off of their 106-104 overtime victory in game 5 on Tuesday as 7 ½ point closing line favorites. LVSC has opened the home team Chicago Bulls as 3 ½ point favorites with the over under coming in at 197. There has been early play on the road team Boston Celtics as the Bulls are currently a 3-point favorite. The total has seen action downward as the over under is currently lined at 195 ½.

In 4 of the 5 games in this series the Chicago Bulls have held significant rebounding advantages in this series. The rebounding margin is just under plus 10 boards for the Bulls in that span. The issue facing the Celtics interior has been the injuries to Kevin Garnett and Leon Powe that has impacted their rebounding prowess. This series has seen three overtimes and with that we have seen major minutes for the short-handed Boston Celtics. Paul Pierce has logged in over 50 minutes in the Celtics past two games. Point guard Rajon Rondo has averaged 52 minutes played over the span of the past 2 games in this series. Rondo has been key for the Celtics in this series hitting on 51% of his shots while averaging over 10 rebounds and assists per game. While playing through a strained hamstring Bulls guard Ben Gordon was able to log in over 50 minutes in game 5. The Bulls guard contributed with 26 points despite the injury. Gordon announced 1 hour prior to the start of game 5 that he would give it a go. Rookie guard Derrick Rose has been hampered by turnovers has he has averaged nearly 7 a game over the past 3 games of this series.

Trend: Boston is 4-1-1 ATS in their past 6 meetings in Boston

The Wagerline consensus has 56.1% of the bettors on Boston +3

The Wagerline consensus has 57.2% of the bettors playing over 195 1/2