After a 3/3 night on Monday, can we get lucky again with Aaron Gordon, Klay Thompson, and Keegan Murray leading their Western Conference squads to victory?
Aaron Gordon finally delivered a true all-around performance in the Nuggets’ win over the Raptors in OT last night.
Playing on a back-to-back, we are expecting Gordon to have a similar performance against a Brooklyn team that lacks the wing and frontcourt talent to deal with AG.
Last season on nine back-to-backs, Gordon was a distributor - going for 14.3 PPG | 6.6 RPG | 4.0 APG while shooting 38.5% from beyond the arc. Against a bottom team in the league look for AG to feast once again on the boards and as a key playmaker.
Klay has played well so far in his Mavericks’ debut games, hitting at least four threes in each outing while sitting at 45.5% from beyond the arc through three games.
Against Minnesota tonight, Klay should be able to reach the 19.5 PRA marker for the fourth consecutive time.
Last season with the Warriors, Thompson hit this mark twice in both full games versus Minnesota.
Our best bet of the night goes to Keegan Murray’s over 2.5 3-pointers made. Murray has Utah’s number, hitting this prop number in six of six games since playing 30+ minutes for Sacramento - including a 12/15 night for 47 points last December.
Murray has gone two straight games with less than two 3 pointers made, so expect coach Mike Brown to find him looks against a Utah defense that allows the most assists per game and most three-pointers attempted per game so far this season.
Certainly, a risky bet, but with the Warriors' defense allowing just 100.7 PPG through three outings alongside Williamson playing in less than 30 minutes during both his outings thus far, I’m not convinced to put my eggs in the Zion basket yet.
Sure, Williamson has been able to get to the FT line and will against Golden State but his lack of conditioning each season brings true question marks.
Williamson scores the least amount of PPG and shoots the worst from the FT line in the month of October in comparison to any other month on the regular season calendar during his career.