Los Angeles Clippers Houston Rockets Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 56-26 Houston Rockets play host to the 56-26 Los Angeles Clippers tonight in NBA playoff action game 1 of the second round series, May 4, 2015. Tip-off time is scheduled for 9:30PM EST at the Toyota Center.
Wagering Odds
Point Spread: Rockets -6.5
O/U Total: 212
The Los Angeles Clippers fresh off of an upset 7 game series win over the Spurs travel to Houston to take on the rested Rockets winners in 5 games over the Mavericks. Houston is the -150 favorite to win the series while the Clippers are a nice +130.
The Clippers shocked many winning the 7 game series against last season’s Champion Spurs. It looked grim for Los Angeles after they got smoked 100- 73 in Game 3 to fall behind two games to one in this series with Game 4 in San Antonio. They showed a lot of guts winning two of three on the road in the series.
Houston split their games in Dallas, but at home they were a different animal. They crushed the Mavericks in all three games winning each going away with the lowest scoring margin of 10.
These two teams played four games in the regular season with the Clippers winning the first two straight up and against the betting line and the Rockets taking the last two on the scoreboard and the betting windows. Three of the four totals in this matchup were 213 or higher and that proved too high with all four of the games between them this season going under the total line.
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Los Angeles at Houston Betting Trends
The Clippers are 2-4 against the spread in their last 6 games.
The game total has gone under in 4 of the Clippers last 5 games on the road in Houston
Los Angeles are 5-2 straight up in their last 7 games on the road in Houston.
Houston is 5-0 straight up in their last 5 home games.
The Rockets are 2-6 against the spread in their last 8 games against the Clippers.
The game total has gone over in 8 of Houston’s last 10 home games.
Injury Report
LOS ANGELES
Jordan Hamilton G Out Indefinitely (head)
Chris Paul G Day-to-Day (hamstring)
HOUSTON
Patrick Beverley G Out For Season (wrist)
K.J. McDaniels G Out For Season (elbow)
Donatas Motiejunas F Out Indefinitely (back)
Consensus Betting ATS
Los Angeles: 48%
Houston: 52%
Free NBA Pick
We haven’t decided who we favor to win the series, but we are unanimous on our decision for this game. It would be very difficult for the Clippers to come up with their top effort in Game 1 after a grueling and emotional 7 game series against the Spurs. We were hoping to see a 5 here but the 6 is fair and that’s where our money is going to land in the opener.
Take the Houston Rockets -6
