Portland at New Orleans

The Blazers were manhandled as expected by the Spurs in their opener. They now travel again to New Orleans to face a Hornets team that looked good in their opening game win over Sacramento behind solid play by Chris Paul. The Hornets won by 14 as a 5.5 point favorite. In early season NBA games, teams off a losing season go UNDER the first half total 63% of the time. Here we have two such teams and a total that is set pretty high. We like the UNDER in the first half here.