OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Monday is on the Chicago Bulls (-8.5) to Atlanta.

Reasoning: It’s not like me to be laying almost double digits but I really do not see the Hawks being able to stay in this game one on the road in the Windy City. Not that Kirk Hinrich is a great point guard but with that hamstring injury we are going to see a younger Jeff Teague get more minutes at the point and even though I like the former Wake Forest star I just think this is too tough of a situation to get thrown in the fire like he very well may.

Larry Drew’s team certainly manned up against Dwight Howard and the Magic in winning that series. Jamal Crawford was balling and guys like Smith, Horford and Johnson have the upside to be pretty good. It’s not like the Hawks don’t have the potential to compete in a few of these games because they do if they come to play but I’m not so sure that this spot on the highway is conducive to success.

Derrick Rose is a superstar and should be healthy after getting some time to rest. He and his Bulls thoroughly destroyed the Hawks in a few games this season and I mean destroyed. Even in the game they lost they were up big and somehow someway played one terrible fourth quarter and lost a game they dominated most of the way. Tom Thibodeau’s team seems to have something in this matchup as the lopsided regular season does tell a story.

Carlos Boozer is banged up and really hasn’t been the Carlos Boozer that we have seen for years now. But at home with Rose, Joakim Noah and others I see a final somewhere in the vicinity of 94-82 as Chicago’s defense flexes its muscles as it’s done all season long.

Top expert pick on this game: Chicago from Matt Rivers

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a Saturday MLB lock is on the Orioles (+120) to Chicago White Sox.

Reasoning: I had Baltimore yesterday right here in that easy underdog win at Chicago and am going to go right back to that well. I just like Buck Showalter’s team when getting money back as they are dangerous offense and good enough to beat a semi downtrodden White Sox squad.

Ozzie Guillen was just suspended and the ChiSox have not been playing very good ball of late at all. They did recently take two of three games at Yankee Stadium but have pretty much lost everything else and all in all little has gone right for the South Siders in the past few weeks. This team is not hitting the ball, the relievers at times have been atrocious and all in all is just not very good right now. At some point guys like Konerko, Dunn, Beckham and others will pick it up as there is a bunch of talent there but until they do Chicago is a must go against team for sure in a spot such as this one.

Phil Humber did have that no-hitter fairly late in that last start in the Bronx but I’m not buying it. It’s still Phil Humber, not even Phil Niekro, as he is a guy that is far from being great. The former Met draft pick has pitched well and deserves to be in the starting rotation, I admit that. He also may be a little better than the young Chris Tillman right now but I’ll take a little coin back with the much underrated and frankly really good Baltimore offense. Markakis, Roberts, Guerrero, Jones and Lee help make up a lineup that has the potential to put up a bunch of crooked numbers.

If this is the time that the Sox lineup comes together, which is always possible, then so be it. But until the “good guys” show a sign of life my jack is on a very competent O’s squad at an underdog price.

Top expert pick on this game: Baltimore from Matt Rivers

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a winner for Thursday is on the New Orleans Hornets (+6) hosting the LA Lakers.

Reasoning: Every time of late the Lakers take one step forward they then seem to take one step back and I can see that once again happening today. Yes Los Angeles did come through in that last game fairly easily after the ugly first quarter and yes Phil Jackson’s squad is clearly the more talented team. But with that said I just do not trust them right now.

New Orleans is not a team that is loaded with talent, I understand that. It’s pretty much Chris Paul and a bunch of role players with David West out but those guys have stepped up beautifully a lot of the time and now back home to get half a dozen is fine with me. Guys like Aaron Gray, Jarrett Jack, Emeka Okafor, Trevor Ariza and Carl Landry form a pretty together team right now that at home should be able to compete from start to finish. Game three was a Los Angeles outclassing but then game four was a New Orleans outright. In game five at Staples the Lakers flexed their muscles once again but I can see another semi regression here.

Pau Gasol has not been very good for the bulk of the series and the Lakers haven’t been all that at all for a while now. Plus Kobe is not close to 100% and in the end at home the Hornets are going to have some sting and quite possibly extent this series to a seventh game.

Top expert pick on this game: New Orleans from Matt Rivers

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free winner Wednesday on the San Antonio Spurs (-6.5) to Memphis.

Reasoning: I hesitate in laying half a dozen points with a team that has played as badly as the Spurs have but with their backs up against the wall I am going to do just that. Greg Popovich’ team is as experienced and professional of a team as there is out there making me feel that they will come through in this spot and at least live for one more day.

I give Lionel Hollins’ Grizzlies all the credit in the world for building this 3-1 lead. I definitely do not believe this is a fluke at all as Memphis has flat out played better basketball and right now may even be a better team. Zach Randolph is a beast and the young Grizz have manned up with guys like Conley, Gasol and others. But a closeout game is never easy no less with a young and very inexperienced team on the road. It’s just a tough tough spot for Memphis to be able to succeed in. I can see them taking care of business at home in a game six scenario but not here in this spot tonight.

Ginobili, Parker and Duncan have been there and done that. They aren’t going to panic and will not go down without a fight. The Spurs certainly have been regressing since the first 50 to 60 games of the regular season which were magical and there have been some recent leaner times for sure. But for this one night I do believe that San Antonio will reach deep and be able to muster a high quality effort as they are in survival mode.

It’s not going to be easy but the Spurs are not going down in five games and I see them being able to cover this game in the end.

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has an NBA winner Sunday is on the Miami Heat (-6) at Philadelphia.

Reasoning: It’s tough to lay half a dozen points on the road pretty much ever and that’s why I can’t make this a pay play in good conscience but the 76ers are done, absolutely done with a fork in them.

Miami has this thing wrapped up as Philadelphia just doesn’t have the horses. Doug Collins pretty much admitted that after the game two debacle and Lebron, Wade and Bosh are rested and confident and coming for the kill shot as they smell blood.

I don’t mind the 76ers and I have said that for a while. Iguodala, Holliday, Young, Brand, Williams and the boys from the City of Brotherly Love had a really nice season and are a building team that has a shot to do some good things in the future. But all hope has pretty much been snuffed out after playing very well in that last game and still falling in a non-cover

The Heat are not the perfect team and do have a few flaws at the point guard position and in the middle. Those deficiencies may come back to haunt them in the end but it’s not going to make a difference today as this thing is going to be an outclassing and probably a double digit Heat series clinching victory.

Top expert pick on this game: Miami from Matt Rivers

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has an NBA winner on the San Antonio Spurs (+2) at Memphis.

Reasoning: I love how hard this Memphis team is playing and do respect Zach Randolph and the Grizzlies overall. In fact I even had them in game two and cashed the ticket in a 200,000* play. But today I can’t help but grab whatever I can with what is still the far more experienced and superior overall squad in the Spurs.

I have been anti San Antonio for a lot of the season because I just felt they were not as great as their record indicated. The Spurs jumped out of the gate and pretty much never looked back but I still had no problem fading Greg Popovich’s team when the numbers were right. Here though as a dog in the playoffs is a bit to good to do anything but back Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and the rest of the high powered Spurs.

The Grizzlies are a fun young team that are doing a ton without what seemed to be their leader in the injured Rudy Gay. These guys have overcome adversity and had a nice little season and then a great opening game outright in this series. But let’s face it the Spurs are still the elite squad on the court today and that game one did not have Ginobili playing, which clearly meant a ton.

I’m sure the Memphis fans will be out in full effect and the building will be loud but when push comes to shove it’s still not having to lay anything with the most professional team in sports in the Spurs and I’m just fine with that scenario.

Top expert pick on this game: San Antonio from Matt Rivers

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a Major League Baseball winner for Friday is on the the Red Sox (+103) to Los Angeles Anaheim.

Jon Lester is an absolute superstar and the Red Sox are clearly better than the Angels. I have loved this southpaw for a while as he has the potential to win a Cy Young. Lester has beaten Cancer and won in high-pressurized spots including the final game of the World Series championship. This kid is a stud, plain and simple.

No doubt that Dan Haren has been on-fire this season and the Angels have been playing high quality ball of late, I get all of that. But to get Terry Francona’s 90 plus win team is too good to fully pass up today. The season has not exactly gone to plan thus far for the BoSox but don’t be fooled this team is still borderline great and with Lester on the mound they are great.

Haren is extremely due to get hit around and with all of the quality lefty bats the Sox have this could be that day. Boston’s lineup is awesome with Pedroia, Youkilis, Crawford, Gonzalez and on and on. These guys will click and they very well may do just that tonight.

The Angels have been hitting the ball and have had a nice start to the season but they are still not on the same level as their opponent tonight.

I’m really not all that worried about the Sox and the sluggish start. It’s just one of those poor runs that every team will go through. They just started the season like that which magnifies the situation that much more.

Lester plus the far superior team at about a pick constitutes a great value, period!

Top expert pick on this game: Boston Red Sox

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