The Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets will face each other in the NBA regular season.
Tournament – NBA;
Date – 27.02.2023;
Kick-Off – 02:00 UK;
Venue – Moda Center (19.393);
City – Portland, Oregon, USA.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #1 – Handicap (-8) for Blazers – 1.744.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #2 – Total Points Over 230 – 1.905.
The Trail Blazers are the clear favourites to win this game. Even though the team’s current form is clearly unimpressive, that should be enough to defeat troubled Houston. Damian Lillard, who averages a career-high 31.4 points per game, is still in fine form. The teams are meeting for the third time this regular season. The Blazers won the previous two meetings (125-111 and 107-95).
In the last ten meetings, Portland has not been very confident. There have been five victories. In that span, the team scored an average of 120.2 points per game while allowing their opponents to score 124.3.
The Portland Trail Blazers have won only once in their last four games. That came against the Los Angeles Lakers.
In their last loss against the Sacramento Kings, Billups’ men conceded 133 points. Little and Reddish combined for 50 points, but they did the Trail Blazers no good.
The Portland Trail Blazers are in 12th place in their conference with a minus-three on the win-loss difference. In a game against a frankly weak Houston, the home team must win if they want to make the playoffs.
The Portland Trail Blazers have won 53.3% of their games at home (16-14).
The Houston Rockets are on the verge of losing without any hope of improving their stats on the season. Eight straight defeats and utter hopelessness for Silas’ team.
The Texans could do nothing against a bleeding Golden State (116-101) in their last game. The best scorer for the Houston Rockets was Kenyon Martin Jr., who scored 22 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists.
The Rockets have 13 wins and 46 losses so far. There’s not much to look forward to in the game against the Portland Trail Blazers, as the last three head-to-head encounters have gone to the Oregon squad.
The Houston Rockets have lost 83.9% of their away games (5-26).
The Houston Rockets are averaging 109.5 points per game on the road.
In our opinion, the teams will take to the field with the following line-ups:
Portland Trail Blazers: Damian Lillard – Cam Reddish – Matisse Thybulle – Nassir Little – Drew Eubanks.
Houston Rockets: Tyty Washington Jr. – Jae’Sean Tate – Kenyon Martin Jr. – Jabari Smith Jr. – Alperen Şengün.
Anfernee Simons (Out), Jusuf Nurkic (Out), Ryan Arcidiacono (Out), Idou Badji (Out) and Justise Winslow (Out) are listed as injured for the Portland Trail Blazers.
Jalen Green (Out) and Kevin Porter Jr. (Out) are listed as injured for the Houston Rockets.
The fixture will be played at Moda Center (19.393) in Portland, Oregon, USA.
This starting whistle will sound on the 27th of February, 2023, at 02:00 UK Time.
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