Cleveland Cavaliers at Orlando Magic NBA Playoff Sports Betting Preview Game 6

Published on May 29, 2009 by admin · No Comments

The Cleveland Cavaliers will look to stave off elimination in the NBA Playoff series game 6 contest in Orlando on Saturday Night. Orlando leads this best of 7 series 3-2 as Cleveland survived game 5 with a 112-102 victory as an 8-point favorite. Tip off time for game 6 in Orlando is at 8:30PM Eastern Time with TNT providing the television coverage. LVSC has opened the lines for game 6 and the home team Orlando Magic opened as a 1 ½ point favorite with the over under coming in at 192 ½. The money has come in on the favored Magic, as they currently are a 2-point favorite. The total has saw upward movement to 193. For money line NBA betting purposes the Orlando Magic opened as –120 favorites to win straight up with the Cleveland Cavaliers bringing back +100 with out the aid of getting points. Early money has come in on the Magic to win straight up as they currently are –135 favorites on the money line with Cleveland bringing back +115 to win without getting points.

In their game 5 victory the Cleveland Cavaliers hit on over 50% from the field for the first time in this series. And they needed too because Orlando came in with 102 points in game number five. It’s hard to argue against the early money coming in on Orlando because the Cavaliers have not shown the ability to stop Orlando on offense. Orlando is averaging over 100 points per game in their series against the Cavaliers and Cleveland must continue to get scoring production from players other than Lebron James. If Cleveland were limiting Orlando to less than 80 points per game they could lean on Lebron James without aid of their supporting cast. But when Orlando puts in over 100 points per game, Lebron James cant get this series won all by himself. Mo Williams contributed with 24 points in game 5, which was a series high for him. But in Williams’ last 4 road games he could not hit for more than 38% of his shots. Despite their victory in game 5 the Cavaliers could only muster 15 points off their bench.

Trend: Orlando is 13-2 ATS in their past 14 meetings

The Wagerline consensus has 54.7% the bettors on Orlando -2

The Wagerline consensus has 68.12% of the bettors playing over 193

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