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The Phillies bats are heating up. ...
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Past Picks
Devin Booker is in the midst of possibly his worst playoff series of his career against the Timberwolves. Booker is averaging 20/6/3 on 43/26% shooting splits. Not good for a legit MVP candidate and one of the NBA's premiere two guards. He's likely going to log 42-45 minutes tonight barring foul trouble and I expect him to be very aggressive. The Timberwolves have a great defense, but Booker is too good to be held down four consecutive games here. This number is too low.
Devin Booker has played 42 minutes in each of the last two games, and he should see another massive workload Sunday with Phoenix facing elimination. He dished out eight assists in Game 3, part of a season-long trend in which he's had more assists in home games (7.4 per game compared to 6.5 on the road). It was the Suns' best offensive performance in the series so far; they scored 109 points after failing to break 95 in the first two. Look for Booker to continue to be the primary distributor and go Over 6.5 assists.
What took Kings coach Jim Hiller so long to make a change in net for this series? Not sure why he didn't allow David Rittich to start originally as he had much better regular-season numbers than Cam Talbot, who was pretty awful in first three games. Rittich faced the Oilers in LA on Feb. 10 and shut them out.
Spread results have been zig-zagging in this series which is a plus for Indiana in Sunday's Game 4. The Pacers won but didn't cover in Game 3, kicking themselves for letting the Bucks back into a game that Indy led 39-22 after the first quarter. Note the Pacers haven't suffered back-to-back spread defeats since March 1-3, almost two months ago, and not only are the Bucks slated to be minus Giannis (strained calf) again, now Dame Lillard is apparently out with an Achilles strain suffered in Game 3. Indy also now 6-2 SU this season vs. Milwaukee, which is just 18-21 since Doc Rivers took over in late January. Play Pacers