San Antonio Spurs vs Atlanta Hawks Picks and Odds Nov 24
San Antonio Spurs vs Atlanta Hawks Betting Preview
WagerTalk NBA handicapper Tony Finn offers his San Antonio Spurs vs Atlanta Hawks betting preview for Wednesday, November 24. At the time of posting, the Hawks have opened as a 4-point road favorite in San Antonio, with the total sitting at 220.5 points.
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San Antonio Spurs vs Atlanta Hawks Predictions
- San Antonio Spurs +4 vs Atlanta Hawks
- Total: 220.5 Points
- The over is 10-1 in the Spurs’ last 11 home games
- Atlanta is 5-1 against the spread in their last six games as a favorite.
Atlanta Hawks (9-9, 11th in NBA – East) and the San Antonio Spurs (4-12, 13th in NBA – West) meet tonight in San Antonio. The visiting Hawks enter tonight’s matchup, having won five straight while the Spurs have dropped their last five contests.
Point guard Trae Young is the Hawks’ leading scorer averaging 25.0 points per game while shooting 37.7% from beyond the arc. The Spurs pointman Dejounte Murray tops the team in scoring with 18.3, grabbing 8.3 rebounds and dishing out 8.0 assists per contest.
The Thanksgiving eve contest on the River Walk in San Antonio is scheduled to tip-off at 8:30pm ET. The Hawks are a porous 1-8 on the road. The Spurs have registered a 2-5 mark on their home court.
Both San Antonio and Atlanta rank in the bottom third of the league in shots taken at the rim per Cleaning The Glass. As well, the Wednesday night foes both take fewer three-point shot attempts than 80 percent of the league.
Atlanta Hawks
The last two weeks have found Atlanta playing as they did in the previous summer postseason. Winners of five consecutive games have vaulted the Hawks into 6th place in the East.
Since De’Andre Hunter’s wrist injury has resulted in his inactive status, the Hawks have been the most effecient lineup in the Association. The combination of Young, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Kevin Huerter, John Collins, and Clint Capela has a +59 Net Rating as a rotation.
During Atlanta’s five-game winning streak, the offense has scored 122 points per 100 possessions.
San Antonio Spurs
The Spurs have scored 105.5 points per 100 possessions inside of their five-game losing streak.
The Dejounte Murray and Jakob Poeltl pick and roll combination have been inefficient across the team’s last five games.
The Spurs are allowing 110.0 points per game on the season; however, they have surrendered over 115.0 ppg during the five-game slide.
The last two weeks have seen the Spurs fall 3.5 games outside of the Western conference’s 10th and final postseason slot.
Doug McDermott is the team’s most effective scorer from the three-point line shooting 43.9 percent and averaging more than two makes per game.
San Antonio draws the fewest fouls resulting in free throws in the league. However, the team has the lowest success rate at the free-throw line in all the NBA.
San Antonio Spurs vs Atlanta Hawks Injury Report
Atlanta Hawks
De’Andre Hunter (wrist) has been ruled out.
Onyeka Okongwu (shoulder) is out.
San Antonio Spurs
Zach Collins (ankle) has been ruled out.
Jock Landale (health protocols) is out.
Doug McDermott (knee) is out.
The opening number in this Wednesday event doesn’t figure to hold serve. However, the metrics in this matchup make the spread closer to a touchdown, with the home court being valued at two points or less.
Across the last two weeks, the Hawks rank as the top offense in the league with 119.7 points per 100 possessions and are 15th defensively, surrendering 108.3 with a +11.4 Net Rating. The Spurs have a -6.4 Net Rating in the same two-week period as the Hawks making San Antonio a fade at the current bookmakers’ handicap.
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San Antonio Spurs vs Atlanta Hawks Analysis from The GoldSheet
A bit of a walk on the wild side here, trusting the Hawks to win a game on the road, something they have failed to do in eight of nine chances thus far in the still-young season. But since their last away game in November 12 (a 105-96 loss at Denver), Nate McMillan’s troops have won five in a row, and just a bucket away on Monday vs. Oklahoma City from spread covers in five straight, too. It might be more than just the friendly State Farm Arena that fueled the turnaround; McMillan also has altered the rotations after DeAndre Hunter’s injury, and with Kevin Huerter now in the starting five, ATL is scoring almost 129 points per 100 possessions, the second-best mark in the league among lineups with at least 75 minutes of court time.
Meanwhile, Coach Pop continues to operate on short rations, with the Spurs losing five in a row in their latest slump (only one cover in that span), with the defense actually playing worse since 7-foot Jakob Poeltl’s recent return forma seven-game absence. If ATL really is taking flight, we’ll take our chances that it can get beyond its recent road bug-a-boo, especially vs. this foe, tonight. Play Atlanta.
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