Another 2H play...

San Antonio/Minnesota Under 97, 2H, laying $106 to win $100...

GL...

2H pick...

6-3, Overall, 4-3 NBA, 2 pending...

New York Knicks -8.5, 2H, laying $111 to win $100...

GL...

2 more plays...

4-3 in NBA and 6-3 Overall...

Washington Wizards +10.5, laying $103 to win $100 -- Celtics were atrocious in their only other back-ender and this is a home-and-home revenge spot for the Wiz, hungry for their first win...

Dallas Mavericks +2.5, laying $103 to win $100 -- Another short-timeframe-revenge game for the Mavs here as they should be hungry to knock off the unbeaten Thunder as this should come down to the wire...

GL...

NBA afternoon play

3-3 on the year...May start making more plays, we'll see...

Golden State/Phoenix Under 194, laying $104 to win $100 -- taking the afternoon under trend I have talked about for years...Automatic play...

GL...

2H play...

Memphis Grizzlies -1, 2H, laying $105 to win $100...

GL...

2H looks...

The Wizards and the Bobcats are leans for me on the 2H lines...I won't take them this early in the season because they are lower-echelon teams going against top-flyte teams...

Orlando doesn't fit as an official 2nd-half play because it doesn't meet my criteria for 2H plays, but they are on the cusp and it is a friendly "cross-over-zero" situation with the half-time score and the 2H line, so another lean to them...

But again, I am passing on all 3 and will just take mental notes...

Happy New Year...

Been taking it easy with plays although I shouldn't be as I had a red-hot Week 1, but only made 5 plays, going 3-2...

I am only going to be looking for 2H plays tonight again, but there are 3 "natural" or "default" plays tonight, which is another one of my favorites, tried and true over time, and it's the "short revenge" trend, where 2 teams play each other twice in less than 10 days...

The team that loses the first game usually covers the 2nd game and the play is stronger if the team that loses also does not cover...Also, the total will generally reverse itself for the 2nd game...

This trend is 3-0 ATS with the sides and 2-1 ATS with the totals already this year for a 5-1 record...

We have 2 games tonight, CHAR at MIA and LAL at DEN...Technically, the Sides aren't quite as strong because both teams that lost (CHAR & DEN) covered the spread in Game 1 of their matchups...

Previous games:

NJ got obliterated in Game 1 vs. ATL and then covered the 2nd game...
PHOE lost to NO and then handled them the 2nd time...
DET lost to IND and then beat them the 2nd time around...

All 3 losses were also NC's...

The NJ total went from Under to Over...
Both PHOE games stayed Under...
The DET total went from Under to Over...

So I have leans to DEN and the Over and I also like the Dal/Min Over...Not sold on CHAR...