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Toronto at Phoenix

December 19, 2006
img9:05 PM Eastern
Premium Pick
2 units on Game Total OVER 214.5 -110 (risk 2 to return 3.82)
Result:
LOSS

Who will be the team to break the Phoenix win streak that has now reached 14 games? The odds-makers do not think it will be Toronto as Phoenix is a 14 point chalk for this one. Although we don't have the answer for that, we do like this game to soar OVER the total. Toronto opened the season and decided it was going to try the Phoenix style and run and gun for 48 minutes. That did not work for them so they decided to go more into a conventional style. Most of the teams they played in running off 12 of 15 UNDERS were those that preferred to play that type of basketball. Then Golden St. came to Toronto and seduced them into a running game and 235 points are put up. Phoenix is not going to be slowed down and because of so many recent UNDERS, the value is here for this one. Phoenix will force Toronto, as did Golden State, into a shootout and this one should easily go OVER the total. A footnote here is this. Phoenix has now gone four straight without reaching 110 points. It has been exactly a full season, 82 games since they had a longer streak. It ends tonight, in a shootout in Phoenix.

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