Your free pick for Friday is on the Memphis Grizzlies +5.5 to Phoenix.
Steve Nash is still awesome but without Amare Stoudemire anymore in the middle I just do not think much of this Phoenix team. Vegas installed the Suns as about a 40-41 win team when all is said and done and that is probably what they are, very average. Being at home certainly helps here tonight and Memphis is still far from being an elite team but the young Grizz have a lot of talent and upside and to get half a dozen or so is not too shabby.
OJ Mayo, Mike Conley, Jr., Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol are quality ballplayers. They may not strike total fear in all that many but people who know the NBA do look at these guys and this team overall as an up and coming club that is somewhat dangerous. Memphis showed signs at times last season of being very good and I expect them to continue this trend as this team starts to play mature and play together some more. I actually see the Grizz as sort of a poor man’s Hawks from a few years ago. Before guys like Joe Johnson and Josh Smith and Al Horford were used to each other we saw a squad with potential and a solid future and that is how I view Memphis today.
Sports handicappers know that the road is never easy and shouldn’t be today but in terms of talent the visitors probably have more and in this complimentary smallish type play I have no qualms in backing them. Randolph has been out but is expected to play here and with or without him I’ll put a few bucks on the Grizz.
The pick: Memphis +5.5
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