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Suns start tough stretch in Oakland vs. WarriorsBasketball Betting Lines02/13/2012 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Phoenix will begin a grueling three games in three nights stretch in Oakland tonight against the Golden State Warriors. The Suns have won three straight on the road, including Saturday's 98-84 win in Sacramento, and 11 of 12 against Pacific Division rival Golden State. Jared Dudley had 20 points and 10 rebounds in Sac-town for a Phoenix team that opened the game with back-to-back baskets by Channing Frye and Grant Hill and never looked back, leading for the entire 48 minutes. "Obviously, it was a great win for us. This team has been playing great basketball," Suns head coach Alvin Gentry said. "For us to play from start to finish like we did, I thought it was really good." Steve Nash missed the second quarter after taking a shot to the face from Sacramento's Isaiah Thomas but returned in the second half after getting four stitches in his lip and finished the game with four points and 15 assists in the Suns' fourth win in five games. Phoenix rookie forward Markieff Morris recorded a career-high 18 points. The Suns will finish their hectic stretch at Denver on Tuesday before returning home to face off with Atlanta on Wednesday. The team is 7-8 overall away from the desert. The Warriors, meanwhile opened a three-game homestand on Sunday by topping Houston 106-97. Monta Ellis poured in 33 points in that one as Golden State snapped a three-game skid to the Rockets. The Warriors also got 15 points and 13 rebounds from David Lee as they won their second straight overall and topped Houston for only the second time in their last 14 tries. Stephen Curry and rookie Klay Thompson added 14 points apiece for Golden State, which improved to 7-8 at ORACLE Arena. Thompson was 4-for-6 on three- pointers. "We did a great job of bouncing back," said Warriors coach Mark Jackson. "I thought our guys did a great job of battling and competing." Phoenix has won seven straight overall vs. Golden State, including a 102-91 win in the desert back on Jan. 2.
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Betting the NFL preseasonRule No. 1 in the gamblers' handbook states, "Avoid sports betting on meaningless games." When you're drowning in a sea of baseball monotony, however, things change. Even a hint of pro football betting can persuade the most disciplined bettor to break a few rules. The NFL preseason is around the corner, with a tempting Hall of Fame match kicking off on Sunday. But bettors must stay vigilant. Wagering on NFL exhibition games is an entirely different beast than the regular season. Most fans don't recognize the players on the field because starters get as much action in August as Warcraft fans get on Prom night. The only certainty about the NFL this time of year is uncertainty – and yet there are some who say betting in August can be a gold mine. “I actually feel the NFL preseason presents solid profit opportunities for sharp bettors and handicappers,” Sports Expert Steve Merril explains. “My experience has been that the sportsbooks fear the preseason, which is evident by lower limits and massive moves.” The line moves are attributed to the limited knowledge available regarding playing-time distribution. One team’s top unit out on the field for one more series has an impact on the pointspread. Setting lines in the preseason often is a shot in the dark. “We base the betting lines mostly on public perception,” Pete Korner, founder of the Sports Club in Las Vegas, says. “It’s very tough to predict, almost a guessing game.” The preseason is all about figuring out who’s in and for how long. “It becomes a race between bettors and oddsmakers to find out how long the quarterbacks are going to stay in,” Korner admits. “If a sharp gets the information first, he could exploit an early line. I’m a full believer in moving the line in the preseason if the books find out something late in the week.” Determining what each team’s motive is can help bettors handicap. To do this you must pay close attention to the philosophies head coaches employ in exhibition play. “You need to know what a coach is trying to accomplish,” says Covers Expert Bryan Leonard. “Sometimes a new coach will want to instill a winning attitude. Others just want to make sure their starters don’t get hurt." So how do you distinguish who’s playing scared and who’s playing for keeps? “Head coaches on the hot seat or new coaches trying to implement a winning attitude usually try harder to win in the preseason,” Merril says. Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel fits this criteria. He’s entering his third season as the sideline boss and has yet to lead the Browns to more than six wins. Cleveland is an enticing bet as well because of the unresolved quarterback situation. General manager Phil Savage sacrificed the Browns’ first-round pick in next year’s draft for Brady Quinn, but the former Notre Dame quarterback hasn’t signed or reported to training camp yet. Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson split time at QB last season and it looks like either player (or even Quinn) could be the opening-day starter. “If a team has quarterback depth and the pecking order hasn’t been decided, it’s a big advantage,” Leonard says. Even in the third week of the preseason when starters generally play the most, the final outcome of the game is in the hands of fringe players. A team's talent, all the way down to the last man on the roster, is something to consider. The New England Patriots have long been considered one of the deeper teams in the NFL and coach Bill Belichick has said in the past he’s unafraid of stars getting hurt in games with nothing on the line. He shocked his colleagues in 2003 by playing some of his starters on special teams in the preseason. “We want to have the team ready to play a tough, physical game and preparation has to go into that and I imagine a certain amount of injuries go with it,” Belichick told the Providence Journal in August 2003. Bettors can only hope to find more teams that share the Pats' business-like approach to the preseason (New England is 17-9-3 against the spread since 2000) and take advantage of teams who detest the exhibition schedule. 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