Minnesota is coming off a thrilling comeback against the clippers (who were without Paul) and they are going to be exhausted from late game last night and then traveling up to utah to play at 9pm tonight. They have not been the greatest 1st quarter team lately and that showed last night in L.A where they were down by 9.
Minnesota is averaging 22.8 points in the 1st quarter during its away games while Utah is averaging 23.9
Utah last game was a 3 point loss to dallas, then a days rest with travel.
Utah will come out hot while Minnesota will come out flat still dwelling on last nights buzzer beater to win the game. I see Utah being ahead by about 4 or 5 at the end of the 1st quarter.
Bucks are coming off a nice win over miami,giving the possibility that milwaukee comes out sluggish considering they had to travel after the miami game. However they have been terrible at home in the 1stq when they are facing a team with a winning record. Actually they have not covered at all in the 1st quarter against a winning team when they are in milwaukee.
Milwaukee is 1-4 ats in the 1stq with zero days rest.
Utah has been very dominant against toronto. Toronto has not covered against Utah since november 20th 2006.
Utah is 8-2 ats at home, while toronto is 3-8 ats in its away games.
Utah is averaging 102.8 points in its last 6 home games.
Toronto is only averaging 81.5 pts in its last 6 away games.
TOR are 1-11 ATS in the last 12 meetings.
Toronto is coming off a win last night in phx which was their first win in 8 games.
They have not been very consistent this year
utah has won 9 of its last 11 games. with two of their losses coming against dallas and laker each losing by 3 points.
I dont see toronto hanging around at all and expect utah to open big half time lead and carry it on into the 2nd half.
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