Phoenix Suns at Utah Jazz 2/5/19 – NBA Pick, Prediction, Preview
The Suns and the Jazz will be facing off in what should be a very lopsided game. The Jazz have started to show quite a bit of improvement on the season, but the Suns are seemingly falling back into obscurity and are not a team that has been competitive that much on the season. The thing is this is a game that the Suns are going to treat more as a must win and that can easily make it quite a bit more difficult for the team here.
Phoenix Suns Preview
The Suns have only managed to get a total of 11 wins on the year so far and those wins have come in spurts and struggles. However, the Suns are a team that has a great player on the roster when he shows up and decides to work hard for the team in Devin Booker. However, in the current 11 game losing streak the Suns have had it has been a game where they will show up decent one night and give the opponent a scare, but quickly falters the next night and is blown out of the water.
As I already mentioned Devin Booker is the leader for the Suns on the season with a total of 24.9 points a game and 6.7 assist a game. As a team the Suns are only getting 106.3 points a game and 23.9 assist a game. The Suns are horrible at rebounding with only 39.9 boards a game and the leading rebounder for the Suns is Deandre Ayton who has pulled down 10.6 boards a game. The defense of the Suns is not that good either as they are giving up 115.8 points a game.
Utah Jazz Preview
While the Jazz are not leading their division they are only 7.5 games out of first and if they were in any of the other Divisions the Jazz would definitely have a chance of pulling into first place. However, even then the Jazz have picked up 30 wins and only 24 losses on the season. So this could definitely help the Jazz out, but also the home court advantage will be huge in this game here.
Donovan Mitchell has managed to lead the Jazz when it comes to scoring as he has picked up 22.4 points a game. As a team the Jazz have managed to get 108.8 points a game. Ricky Rubio has ended up with 6.1 assist a game out of the 24.9 the Jazz get. The Jazz have been able to pull down 45.1 boards a game and they are led by Rudy Gobert who has pulled down 12.8 of those. Defensively the Jazz are only giving up 106.1 points a game on the year.
Suns at Jazz Line: Utah Jazz -14.5 O/U 221
My Pick For The Suns Jazz Game: Phoenix Suns +14.5
When you look at these two teams you will see it is very much slanted for the Jazz to win the game. However, I have to look at this lineand the history the Suns have had recently in the losing streak most of the games have been under 10 points and the ones that were larger losses came against teams that are quite a bit better than the Jazz. I look for the Utah Jazz to win this game, but fail to cover the line in the game as it ends up being a 112-104 battle.
