NBA Pick: Kings +3.5 (-110) at BetOnline (visit our BetOnline Review)
The top-rated sportsbooks have released their NBA odds for tonight’s game between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings.
For your best bet, I recommend investing in the Sacramento Kings for this matchup.
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If you’re thinking about wagering on this Wednesday’s games, keep reading for a thorough analysis.
Golden State Warriors vs. Sacramento Kings
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 – 10:00 PM ET at Golden 1 Center
Warriors’ Perimeter Defense
The porousness of Golden State’s perimeter defense is going to decide this game.
On the season, the Warriors rank 25th at limiting opposing three-point attempts. They allow the seventh-most open three-point attempts per game and the seventh-most wide-open ones.
These stats indicate that they do a poor job of running teams off the three-point line and contesting three-point shots.
Recent History
Golden State’s most recent games attest to the ongoing nature of its struggle with defending the perimeter. In its last game, it allowed Utah to make 14 threes. The Jazz converted over 40 percent of their three-point attempts.
Two games ago, the Warriors allowed New Orleans to make 20 threes. The Pelicans converted 52.6 percent of their three-point attempts. The Warriors failed to cover the spread in both games, suggesting the relevance of their perimeter defense failures to the outcome of their games.
Sacramento’s Offense
Sacramento is just the team to take advantage of Golden State’s perimeter defense. The Kings love shooting threes: they attempt the third-most per game. Expect especially Harrison Barnes and De’Aaron Fox to thrive from deep.
Barnes makes 41.7 percent of his threes at home. Fox is shooting over 40 percent from behind the arc in April and over 45 percent from deep in his last five games.
Kings’ Stronger Perimeter Defense
Golden State, too, loves to shoot three-pointers, so it is decisive to note that the Kings own the stronger perimeter defense.
The Kings do a better job of limiting three-point attempts overall and of limiting open and wide-open three-point attempts. It might not seem like Sacramento’s perimeter defense is formidable if you look at its last game against the Warriors.
But in that game, the Warriors did an exceptional job of converting open and wide-open three-point attempts. They still lost that game, despite Sacramento’s unusually bad free throw shooting, because they couldn’t stop the Kings’ offense.
NBA Pick: Kings +3.5 (-110) at BetOnline
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