Los Angeles at Utah

The Lakers have taken care of business at home winning the first two in this series, but that doesn't bode well for game three. Game threes have seen the team down 2-0 in the series come back to cover game three at a 63% rate. Expect the Jazz who have only failed to cover five times in their last 31 home games as a favorite of 4.5 or less to respond big in this spot. That has also translated in playoffs games for this Jazz squad as they are 8-1-1 ATS as a chalk of 4.5 or less in their last 10. The Lakers have had huge consistency issues. After an ATS win, they have now gone on to go 1-11 ATS in their next game. Game three has an elongated history of being the pivotal game in a seven-game series, and that usually means fired-up defenses to start the game with 60% of all game threes going UNDER in the first half. I'll go with the Jazz and the first-half UNDER in this one.