NBA Betting: Utah Jazz vs. Toronto Raptors Odds & Pick: March 24th 2010

Utah Jazz vs. Toronto Raptors
Free Pick: Utah Jazz -3.5 -110 odds
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The Jazz are playing terrific ball right now with their only losses in the past few weeks coming at the hands of New Orleans and Milwaukee, two of the hottest teams in the NBA. Utah is well rested having played at home the last two games plus they have an easy East Coast schedule on this trip. They don’t play any of the elite teams in the Eastern Conference. Utah won’t take the Raptors lightly if recent history is any indication. Utah pounded both Washington and Minnesota is flat scheduling spots, so they are not taking any opponent for granted. The Jazz have also owned this series winning nine straight against the Canadian club.

Toronto starts a key four game stretch on Wednesday facing Utah, Denver, Miami and Charlotte, four possible playoff teams. The later two being huge in the Raptors quest for playoff seeding. Toronto has won just 4 of their last 14 games but three of those victories were against Minnesota and New Jersey, the dregs of the league. In fact, the three wins before than came against Sacramento, Philadelphia and New Jersey again, so obviously this Toronto team hasn’t stepped up when playing high quality opposition.

Utah has Indiana, Washington, New York and Golden State on deck so they have no need to look past Toronto. Look for the Raptor’s fade to continue.