Filip Tomic
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It’s Part 3 of the Battle of New York as the Knicks and Nets lock horns on Tuesday night at Barclays Center. Catch the game on TNT live from 7.30 pm ET, I’ve come up with a tasty +558 odds Same Game Parlay which is available below. Find our predictions for Tuesday’s 5-game slate on the NBA picks page, but now let’s dive into my SGP now!
Mikal Bridges to Score 20+ Points (+175)
Karl-Anthony Towns 2+ Made Threes (-155)
D’Angelo Russell Over 6.5 Assists (-150)
Same Game Parlay odds: +425
Mikal Bridges to Score 20+ Points (+175)
Playing against his former team you just know Bridges will want to prove them wrong once again for trading him away. In the 2 games since going across town to their bitter rivals the Knicks, Bridges has played the Nets twice and scored 21 and 22 points. That continued a streak of 5 games in a row of at least 20 points in head-to-head meetings. New York’s iron man has logged 45 and 41 minutes against the Nets this year, playing that many minutes he’s bound to fill up the stat sheet on Tuesday as well. Brooklyn’s defense has really struggled during their 6-game West coast road trip, coming into this game they have Ben Simmons on the injury report which would be a devastating blow in trying to defend Bridges and other Knicks wings in this game.
Karl-Anthony Towns 2+ Made Threes (-155)
KAT didn’t have the best of games on MLK day against Atlanta as he scored just 13 points, his lowest output in the month of January so far. With that game out of the way though, I am expecting a bounce back performance against the Nets tonight. He’s been cooking from three-point land in the month of January, knocking down 2.3 threes per game on an insane 50% efficiency. In 9 games played he has scored a pair of triples a total of 6 times, that number should improve against a Nets team that ranks bottom of the league in three-point defense this year. Opponents are making 38% of their shots from deep against this team, over their last 3 games that number has ballooned to 39.4%. The first two meetings of the year saw 32 and 30 threes scored between the two teams, expect another high scoring game and a KAT bounce back performance.
D’Angelo Russell Over 6.5 Assists (-150)
It’s no secret that the Brooklyn Nets are struggling in the playmaking department, in their last 3 games they’ve scored 101, 101 and 67 points. Russell did not play in that historic loss to the Clippers, as the team finished with just 15 assists total and only 6 of them coming from the starting unit. Since the Nets acquired him from the Lakers, he has played in 6 games and has averaged 7.3 assists. In only 1 of the games he has failed to clear this number, that was against Philadelphia over 2 weeks ago where he played just 14 minutes. Everything goes through Russell on offense for the Nets, even on nights where they get blown out by opponents he still produces in the assists department. Against the Knicks he has cleared this line twice over the last 4 meetings. The two games between the Knicks and Nets this season were decided by 2 and 10 points, so I think it’s realistic to expect another close finish here, if that’s the case then Russell will have to get his teammates involved.
