Golden State (33-14) at Washington (20-26)
When: Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Where: Capital One Arena,
Washington, DC
Time: 8:05 ET | TV: TNT
Opening Odds: Golden State -9/234.5
Now that the Golden State Warriors are healthy, can anyone beat them but themselves? Golden State is now looking like the team that should be the prohibitive favorite not only in the West, but all of the NBA now. They will look to extend their eight game winning streak with a battle in the Nation’s Capital against the Washington Wizards on Thursday night. The Warriors have already taken the first two of their five-game road trip – victories in the Staples Center against the Clippers and Lakers. Its always a different guy each night taking over a game and against the Lakers it was Klay Thompson. The sharpshooter from Washington State knocked down 10-of-11 from 3-point range en route to 44 points in 27 minutes in the 130-111 victory, matching the NBA record both for consecutive made 3-pointers to start a game (10) and for consecutive made 3-pointers within a game. The Wizards have struggled most of the season without point guard John Wall, but are on a decent run right now, winning four of their last five, with the only loss being an overtime thriller versus Toronto. All of those games have been at home where they are 14-8 on the season. The most recent contest being their best defensively, a 101-87 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Monday. Golden State has won the last four in the series, including a 109-101 win at Washington last season.
Thompson finished Monday’s game versus the Lakers 17-of-20 from the floor and reached double figures in made 3-pointers for the second time this season. Thompson has been known to be streaky and has broken out of a long slump by draining 52.2 percent from 3-point range over the last 11 games after shooting 30.3 percent from that distance in the previous 14. DeMarcus Cousins will be playing his third game since coming back from a long injury absence and has 22 points on 7-of-20 shooting over his first two contests with his new team.
Veteran small forward Trevor Ariza, who averages just 11.7 points a game, has scored over that in each of the past five games including three outings in the 20s. He led the way on Monday with 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting and 12 rebounds in the win over Detroit. Fellow small forward Otto Porter Jr. is averaging 22 points over the last three games, coming off the bench. Center Thomas Bryant has recorded a double-double in two of the last three games including 11 points and 12 rebounds against the Pistons.
The Wizards have been playing pretty well lately, not only covering eight of their last 10, but doing against pretty good teams in Philadelphia, Toronto, Milwaukee, and Oklahoma City. They’ll be up for this game and I can see them keeping it in single-digits. As good as the Warriors are, I have a hard time laying this many points on the road.
Pick: Wizards +9
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- Warriors are 3-0-1 ATS in their last 4 games following a straight up win.
- Warriors are 3-0-1 ATS in their last 4 when their opponent scores 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Warriors are 3-0-1 ATS in their last 4 games overall.
- Warriors are 3-0-1 ATS in their last 4 after scoring 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Warriors are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.
- Warriors are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 vs. Eastern Conference.
- Warriors are 3-1-1 ATS in their last 5 after allowing 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Warriors are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 road games.
- Warriors are 1-6 ATS in their last 7 Thursday games.
- Wizards are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of greater than .600.
- Wizards are 6-1 ATS in their last 7 home games.
- Wizards are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games following a straight up win.
- Wizards are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Wizards are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.
- Wizards are 8-2 ATS in their last 10 when their opponent scores 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Wizards are 8-2 ATS in their last 10 games overall.
- Wizards are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 when their opponent allows 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Wizards are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 after scoring 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Wizards are 7-2 ATS in their last 9 home games vs. a team with a winning road record.
- Wizards are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games following a ATS win.
- Wizards are 7-19 ATS in their last 26 games playing on 2 days rest.
- Over is 6-0 in Warriors last 6 games following a ATS win.
- Over is 5-1 in Warriors last 6 overall.
- Over is 5-1 in Warriors last 6 road games.
- Over is 5-1 in Warriors last 6 games following a straight up win.
- Over is 5-1 in Warriors last 6 when their opponent scores 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Over is 5-1 in Warriors last 6 after scoring 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Over is 13-3 in Warriors last 16 games following a straight up win of more than 10 points.
- Over is 4-1 in Warriors last 5 games playing on 2 days rest.
- Over is 4-1 in Warriors last 5 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
- Over is 6-2 in Warriors last 8 after allowing 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Over is 11-4 in Warriors last 15 Thursday games.
- Under is 7-3 in Warriors last 10 vs. NBA Southeast.
- Over is 4-0 in Wizards last 4 vs. NBA Pacific.
- Over is 4-1-1 in Wizards last 6 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of greater than .600.
- Over is 7-2 in Wizards last 9 vs. Western Conference.
- Under is 7-3-1 in Wizards last 11 games following a straight up win of more than 10 points.
- Under is 7-3 in Wizards last 10 when their opponent allows 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Over is 44-19 in Wizards last 63 games playing on 2 days rest.
- Over is 9-4 in Wizards last 13 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.
- Home team is 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings.
- Over is 5-2 in the last 7 meetings in Washington.
