I have said it before and I will say it again
betting on totals in the NBA is for retards who don't understand the game scores in basketball come down to maybe 60% pace and 40% offensive efficiency. The Problem is that pace is nearly impossible to predict with any real consistently. Efficiency is not that difficult to predict but you can have 2 teams shoot 50% from the field and only score 190 points...and you can have 2 teams shoot 40% from the field and score 210 points. It's a total crapshoot
total betting in football for example is fantastic. Because if you take 2 great offensive teams playing each other, the games will usually go over. You take a great defensive team playing a bad offensive team and the game will go under
the ONLY exception I will make to playing totals is if a certain team has been murdering their lines for a while. For example, I played Indy/NYK earlier this year because both teams had been just scoring monster points for an extended period of time. The knicks had covered the over in their games by a large margin and same thing with Indy
guess what happened in that game?? the 2 teams score a bajillion points in 3 quarters, but the game slowed down to a fukking crawl in the 4th quarter and the 2 teams failed to cover the over by 1 point. Lesson learned, I don't think I'm ever gonna play totals again the NBA