I see this match as a great situational spot for Sacramento. Utah plays their sixth match in ten days when Sacramento plays their third match in ten days. Utah had a match yesterday against Miami and that was a tight match even numbers were nice for Utah in the end. The match was also more physical than usually. Utah is 5-4 on the road and in back-to-back games on the road 0-3. Losses are against Lakers, Indiana and Knicks. All against teams who are able to play fast game and Sacramento’s coach Reggie Theus was supposed to drive same style for Sacramento but hasn’t had success in that untill their recent games. During last season Sacramento was 6-7 in back-to-back games on the road. Boozer and Okur made their comeback yesterday after small injuries.

Sacramento has easy schedule when they’ll have two days rest after this match and when they lost at Sacramento easily without Bibby (who is still out), Artest and Miller this should be right time to take a revenge. About Artest. His four year old daughter has a cancer (90% curability rate) and she is at Indiana getting treatment but if nothing special happens Artest should be playing. Can’t say how it effects to his game. Maby the court is only place where he gets his mind away from his daughter or then it’s making his performance worse and of course it has some effect to whole team but I’d say it has a positive effect to the teams performance if I had to choose, they’ll want to fight.

After Sacramento’s rest they’ll start a road tour and will play eight matches in 13 days. Sacramento has won 19 from their latest 24 matches so Sacramento isn’t the easiest place for visitors as their recent visitors have noticed. San Antonio was playing back-to-back and lost, Golden State was in superform, won only because they had great fourth quarter and Houston also lost for the hosts, though Houston had a hard schedule too.

Utah playing with high confidence but can’t see them being the favourite as the odds say.

Pick : Sacramento Kings
Odds : 2.45
Stake : 5 / 10
Bookmaker : Expekt
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