The Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers will face each other in the NBA regular season.
Tournament – NBA;
Date – 24.11.2022;
Kick-Off – 00:00 UK;
Venue – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (19.432);
City – Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #1 – Handicap (-8) for Cavaliers – 1.965.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #2 – Total Points Under 225 – 1.435.
Bickerstaff’s side has been looking too good of late. They will probably have no trouble beating Portland. It’s likely to be a convincing win.
The Cavs have played great defensively in recent games. Neither Miami nor Atlanta scored more than 102 points. It will probably be a similar story to Portland. After all, Lillard’s absence won’t have the best effect on the Trailblazers’ offensive play. We don’t think this game will be productive.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are having a wild streak at home. Three games in Ohio and three wins. The Cavaliers managed to defeat the Charlotte Hornets (132:122), Miami Heat (113:87) and Atlanta Hawks (114:102).
In the game with the Hawks, three Cleveland players contributed to the game. Team leader Donovan Mitchell scored 29/9/4, Darius Garland had 26/9/0 and Jedi Osman had 23/0/3.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are in third place in the Eastern Conference. The team is back in the top spot thanks to a successful winning streak. The team has 11 wins and 6 losses.
The Cavaliers have won their last three games after Mitchell, Garland and Allen reunited.
The Portland Trail Blazers had the opposite situation. The Trail Blazers suffered their third straight defeat. At home, they had poor games against the Brooklyn Nets (107-109), Utah Jazz (113-118) and Milwaukee Bucks (111-119).
Despite the defeat, the second-highest-scoring player in the game was noted. It was Portland’s Anfernee Simons with 29 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists. The Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo was the only other player to lead with 37 points.
In the West, the Blazers continue to lose ground. With 10 wins and 7 losses, the team dropped to 6th place.
The Trail Blazers are one of the worst teams in the away scoring race at 106.1.
In our opinion, the teams will take to the field with the following line-ups:
Cleveland Cavaliers: Darius Garland – Donovan Mitchell – Lamar Stevens – Evan Mobley – Jarrett Allen.
Portland Trail Blazers: Anfernee Simons – Shaedon Sharpe – Josh Hart – Jerami Grant – Jusuf Nurkić.
Ricky Rubio (Out), Dylan Windler (Out), Dean Wade (Out), Caris LeVert (Out) and Kevin Love (Day-to-day) are listed as injured for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Gary Payton II (Out), Damian Lillard (Out), Keon Johnson (Out) and Josh Hard (Day-to-day) are listed as injured for the Portland Trail Blazers.
Anfernee averages 22 points in away games. We offer to bet on “Simons Points Under 24.5” with odds of 1.80.
The fixture will be played at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (19.432) in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
This starting whistle will sound on the 24th of November, 2022, at 00:00 UK Time.
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