basketball | Thursday, December 15, 2022 2:31 PM

LA Clippers vs Phoenix Suns Best Bet: Clippers Too Solid for Shaken Suns

Aleksa Drobnjak

LA Clippers vs Phoenix Suns Best Bet: Thursday, December 15th

In the scarce NBA program tonight we have managed to pick a perfect tip for you. The Clippers will host the Suns at Crypto.com Arena tonight, and they are holding the role of the favourite of 1.5 points according to the current moneyline.

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LA Clippers vs Phoenix Suns Best Bet

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Wednesday, Dec 15h. 03:00 pm (UK time)

The Clippers are coming out of a 3-game winning streak. They managed to climb the Western Conference ladder and they are sitting now comfortably in 6th place in the standings, which was expected from a team with such quality in the first place. K. Leonard has played in 2 of their last 3 games and we expect him on the floor tonight as well. It is not realistic for him to end the season with 11 PPG so we strongly believe tonight will be one of the best games for Kawhi this season.

The Clippers are far from perfect this season, they are averaging the lowest PPG in the whole NBA with 107.2 per game, whilst shooting only 46% from the field. But these stats will improve once Kawhi gets integrated into coach Lou’s offensive system. The Clippers will not be missing any players tonight with the latest update, but I. Zubac and J. Wall remain ‘questionable’. We expect them both to play tonight as they have played in 68% of their questionable games combined so far.

The Suns have started the season strong and managed to climb to the top of the Western Conference but they are on a 6-game losing streak at the moment, which has made them closer to a 0.500 record than the top spots. There are a lot of flaws in coach Williams’ game this season, and most of it is due to injuries to his main players.
Our main source of value tonight will be the long list of questionable players for the Suns since both D. Booker and D. Ayton remain ‘questionable’ to ‘doubtful’ for tonight. If this does indeed happen, we believe the moneyline will shift closer to 1.33 for the home team and we are trying to catch early value here.

Phoenix does not excel in anything in particular, but if we had to find their best offensive asset, it must be assisted baskets ratio and APG. Due to CP3’s great passing, he has kept them afloat when most of the main players were out during the season.

LA Clippers vs Phoenix Suns Best Bet

Although the games between these teams have mostly been split by home-court victories for everyone, the Clippers are the ones who are winning with a substantial margin when they do manage to win at home. With a shortened rotation tonight we believe the Suns will not be able to hold the tempo for the full duration of the game, so we are taking the Clippers in the moneyline.