It's clear why the odds're what they're. Toronto fights to avoid facing Detroit at playoffs while Charlotte has anymore nothing to win, has 22-15 homerecord compared to Charlotte's 9-28 and has also good history against Charlotte: 10-3 overall, 5-1 at home and 2-1 this season. Teams faced a less than a week ago Toronto winning 100-104. Chris Bosh playd a strong game what is also expected today but then he took the leaders role what isn't usual for him, talking on the court what his teammates should do at defence and that gave some extraboost during the game for Toronto. Charlotte's team was tired then after roadtour as Gerald Wallace said after the game: "Our legs just weren't in tonight". That made them being weak on boards what is one major thing tonight to decide the winner. The loss was a final nail for Charlotte's dream of playoffs. Unlike some other no-playoff teams Charlotte hasn't stopped fighting, like Jason Richardson says:" "We want to finish up the season strong. We want to build on getting better as a team and getting ready for next year". There's also a question if teams coach Sam Vincent continues or doesn't. He has the support of the team owner but the decisionmaker is teams partowner Michael Jordan. Vincent himself wants to continue. Few wins for Vincent to the end of the season'd make him to look better but the ball is also partly on the players how they want to make him to look. There's some talk Vincent and Okafor has bad spirit between (also Okafor between Okafor and his teammates) them but now Okafor's gametime has been lately higher. Toronto's game has had hints of better but hasn't been lately strong as in their last game against Atlanta. Couldn't keep defendin 3-point shoots, blowed 17p lead and in the end instead fouling them and the game went to the overtime. If Charlotte isn't intrested to play the game there's only one winner but I believe Charlotte players still has some fight left and Toronto's less convincing games makes me to try Charlotte.

Pick : Charlotte
Odds : 5.50
Stake : 2 / 10
Bookmaker : Pinnacle
Match Result : 100-105
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