NBA - Chicago Bulls @  Sacramento Kings

Everybody expects a huge letdown for the Bulls, as the line opened as -2 and right now we can shop the line as pk. However, "everybody" is forgetting how bad the spot are for the Kings and also how bad this team is.

Well, the Kings are 0-7 L7 games and they completed a road trip by being spanked in 3 consecutive games against the Raptors, Cavs and the Celtics. I understand that especially in the last 2 games the Kings simply didn't have any chance to win, but do you noticed that they played 4 games in 5 nights in that road trip!? This is not over as the last game was in Boston and they had only one day to rest, well they had to travel the entire country and tonight they will host the Bulls. The home court advantage simply doesn't exist for the Kings in this game, nevertheless they are 3-14 ATS in their last 17 home games, so they wouldn't have home court advantage in any of the cases. In this season there were 2 similar spots for the Kings and in both of them the Kings lost at home: 101-107 vs Toronto and 115-119 vs Miami.

The sad news for this team is that they quit easily on the games, remember that they are dead last in terms of points differential: -9.04! Even the Clippers have a more respectable stat! This isn't surprisingly at all for me. This team is looking to make a trade (Brad Miller) for such a long time and recently John Salmons is also included in rumors. Both players already said that the prospect of being moved has certainly been on their minds.

"I heard a lot today about some (trade) stuff, so it's being discussed," he said. "It's at the point where it's got to be discussed. We're (as a team) at a point where they're going to make decisions on where they're going to go with the team and what they're going to do, and everybody has got to be discussed. That's just the nature of the beast." There are so many distractions on this team!

Meanwhile, the Bulls bounced back nicely against a lowly team like the Clippers. If you remember I backed the Bulls in that game by saying that the Bulls made a good effort in the previous game in Minnesota and they worked hard in the practise to finish better the games. Well, they didn't disappoint us and spanked the Clippers by 20 points!

That win gave some confidence to the team: HC Vinny Del Negro said: "Winning builds confidence, that's the bottom line?.I like our mind-set right now." Or also Derrick Rose: "It feels good. We haven't had a blowout for a while. When we're moving the ball like that, it's hard to beat us."
The Bulls don't win in Sacramento since the Michael Jordan era and I don't expect them to overlook the Kings tonight. Basically we are betting on the better team, on the most confident and on the best spot, take the Bulls in here.

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