12/03/2008 - Milwaukee, WI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Charlie Villanueva scored 23 points and hauled in 10 rebounds to lead the Milwaukee Bucks in a 97-90 victory over the Chicago Bulls.
Richard Jefferson added 21 points for the Bucks, who snapped a season-long four-game skid. Luke Ridnour chipped in 12 points and 10 assists in the win. Dan Gadzuric logged 11 points and 14 boards.
Ben Gordon scored 22 points and Luol Deng 21 for the Bulls, who have dropped three of their last four games. Derrick Rose ended with 18 points, nine helpers and four steals.
Jefferson, Luc Mbah a Moute and Villanueva all drained buckets to open the fourth quarter to give the Bucks an 82-72 lead with 9:15 left.
Rose interjected with a three-point play, but Villanueva rattled off seven straight points to make it 89-75 just prior to the midway point of the fourth.
"We fought our way back but if there was a big play or a big basket it wasn't from us," said Deng.
Rose's two free throws capped an 11-2 Bulls run that brought the visitors within 93-88 with 1:56 showing on the clock, but the Bulls were unable to get any closer than five points down the stretch.
The Bulls led 20-19 after the first quarter but fell behind, 54-42, at the intermission.
Down by 15 midway through the third stanza, the Bulls used a 14-2 run to get back into the contest. Deng's three-pointer sparked the run and Gordon scored the rest of the points to make it 71-68 with just under two minutes left in the frame.
"Obviously we had a very good first half," Bucks head coach Scott Skiles said. "We came out in the third and we were a little flat again, especially on the defensive end."
Chicago trailed 76-72 heading into the final 12 minutes.
Game Notes
Gadzuric had three blocks (373) to pass Paul Pressey (372) for eighth place on Milwaukee's all-time list...Gordon scored the final 15 points of the third quarter for Chicago...The Bucks are .500 (4-4) at home this year...The Bulls had dominated the Bucks recently, winning four straight and eight of the last nine meetings coming in.
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Power ratings are the oddsmaker’s value of each team and are used as a guide to calculate a "preliminary" pointspread on an upcoming game. The power ratings are adjusted after each game a team plays. Examples of non-game factors that would require an adjustment to a team's power rating are key player injuries and player trades.
Once a game’s power rating based pointspread is determined, the oddsmaker will make adjustments to that line after considering each team's most recent games played and previous games played against that opponent. Also, adjustments are made after reading each team’s local newspapers to get a sense of what the coaches & players are thinking going into the game.Since the oddsmaker’s ultimate goal is equally dividing the sports betting action, public perception and sportsbook betting patterns must be taken into account. For example, the public might have heavy betting interest week after week on a popular college football betting team such as USC. If an oddsmaker comes up with a preliminary line of USC -7, then an adjustment up to -7.5 or -8 would be made in response to the public’s expected USC bias.
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Individual books having players who consistently bet with certain tendencies (such as an extreme bias toward favorites or toward a certain popular team like USC)The purpose of these adjustments, like all line adjustments, is to more equally divide the betting action.
Once betting begins, sportsbooks can adjust the line at any time. In doing so they attempt to make more attractive the team that is getting less action. By moving the line, sportsbooks can influence how the public bets on a particular game.For example, if the pointspread on a game is 7 and most of the money is coming in on the underdog (taking the +7), sportsbooks will then move the number down to 6 ½ to try and attract money on the favorite.
Moving the line is the oddsmaker's effort to balance betting action, and often times such moves can have a major impact on a bettor’s decision. Oddsmakers can also change the line depending on various event-related factors such as player injuries or weather. Obviously, if the line comes out a week ahead of the event (which is the case in football), there is much that could happen during the week leading up to the event that could affect the line. Oddsmakers have to determine if any changes are necessary and send out an "adjusted line."“The main objective is that our clients get equal action on both sides,” Seba said. “We’re not trying to pick the team that covers the spread, we’re trying to make it a coin flip, a tough decision (for the bettor). If we’ve done that, we’ve done our job.”
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