The Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Clippers have played twice already this season, with each team taking one of those contests. On Tuesday night, they meet for a third time early in the season and look to gain the upper hand on one another on national TV. In our NBA betting picks for Tuesday night, we look at the Trail Blazers vs Clippers matchup and predict who will win their early season rubber match.
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Trail Blazers vs Clippers Betting Pick
This game will be played at Staples Center at 10:00 PM ET on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.
Why Bet The Clippers:
✅ The home team has won both of the matchups between these squads to start the season. The Clippers dominated the Trail Blazers in their first meeting at Staples Center, winning that contest by 30 points. Here, the game should be closer than 30 points, but the Clippers are going to get another key victory at home.
✅ Paul George will be a huge reason for the Clippers’ success in this game, as one would expect. George is ranked second in the NBA in scoring so far this year, putting up 27 points per game. In the loss to the Trail Blazers earlier this season, George scored 42 points and was able to get anything he wanted from the perimeter. He should have another big game here.
✅ The Portland Trail Blazers have had a terrible season away from home so far this year. Portland is 0-4 away from home this season, winning five of their six games at home to make up their 5-5 record on the year. Their road struggles will continue in this game as they should drop to 0-5 away from the Pacific Northwest on the year.
Portland Trail Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers have won two straight games coming into this matchup with the Los Angeles Clippers. Chauncey Billups’ team has beaten the Los Angeles Lakers and Indiana Pacers at Moda Center leading up to this matchup. But the Trail Blazers have proven this year that home wins don’t mean much when they go on the road.
Portland is winless away from Moda Center on the season so far, losing all four of their contests outside of their home arena. In those road games, the Trail Blazers’ offense has had a hard time getting going, failing to hit the 105 point mark in three of their four road games. Against the Clippers, the Trail Blazers lost 116-86 on the road, and will hope for a better result this time around.
Los Angeles Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers started this season with a 1-4 record, but they have won four straight games to get to 5-4 on the year. Los Angeles has gone 1-1 against the Trail Blazers so far this season, but won their home encounter with Damian Lillard and company convincingly. To do the same here, they will need to win the battle of the bigs.
Ivica Zubac was better than Jusuf Nurkic when these two teams played in Los Angeles, with Nurkic returning the favor when they played in Portland. The winner of that matchup will give their team a big time edge in this game, as we can expect the likes of Lillard and George to cancel each other out for the most part.