The New Orleans Pelicans (33-22) play the Houston Rockets (24-30) as 6.5-point favorites on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 8:00 PM ET on BSNO. The over/under is set at 227.5 for the matchup.
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Spread: Pelicans (-6.5) to Cover
- The model projects the Pelicans to win, just as DraftKings does, but the model favors them by a small margin more (7.2 to 6.5).
- New Orleans’ ATS record is 30-23-2 this season.
- The Pelicans have covered the spread seven times this season (7-6-1 ATS) when playing as at least 6.5-point favorites.
- Houston has gone 27-25-2 ATS this season.
- The Rockets have been an underdog by 6.5 points or more 15 times this year, and covered the spread in seven of those matchups.
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Total: Under 227.5
- The model’s predicted total (227.4 points) and the DraftKings set total (227.5 points) are virtually the same for this contest.
- New Orleans’ games have had more than 227.5 points scored on 29 occasions this year.
- Houston’s games have finished with over 227.5 points scored 24 times this season.
- In the Pelicans’ 55 games this season, the combined scoring has gone over the point total 26 times.
- Rockets games have hit the over 25 out of 54 times this season.
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Moneyline Winner: Pelicans (-258)
- Prediction: Pelicans 117, Rockets 110
- This season, New Orleans has won 20 out of the 31 games, or 64.5%, in which it has been favored.
- Houston has been chosen as underdogs in 35 games this year and has walked away with the win 10 times (28.6%) in those games.
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Brandon Ingram Points Prop: Under 21.5
- Brandon Ingram puts up 21.4 points, 5.0 boards and 5.8 assists per game, shooting 49.0% from the floor and 36.2% from downtown with 1.4 made treys per game.
- Thursday’s over/under for Ingram is 21.5 points. That’s 0.1 more than his season average of 21.4.
- Ingram has hit the over 18 times on a points prop this season (in 54 tries).
- The Rockets put up 113.3 points per game and allow 112.7, ranking them 22nd in the league on offense and ninth on defense.
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