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Betting Second Half of the NBA Season – Trends

Looking for trends and value when betting and handicapping the second half of the NBA season

An NBA handicapper looking for Sports betting success can always find trends and angels to guide you along the way and before making your NBA Picks in the second half of the NBA season.

When handicapping NBA Picks, as an expert handicapper, I always find value from betting  angels or trend throughout the long NBA season because sports betting in the NBA gives you tremendous opportunity to find value in trends because you are dealing with teams that consist of only 12 players per NBA team that have to endure a longest season. With that said, as an expert handicapper I must handicap the second half of an NBA matchup using different stats and factors that were not available to me in the first half of the season.

The first half results have shown us who are the pretenders and contenders as top tier teams will start to break away from the pack to make a run in the playoffs excluding injuries.

Traveling is a major factor an expert handicapper must analyze and use to find value when sportsbetting in the NBA. When NBA teams are on the road they tend to have a different mentality simply because they have to change their daily routine which would cause a bit of distraction for anyone.

Our NBA sportsbetting research has shown us that it is tougher to play on the road in the second half and the mental distraction becomes evident when an NBA team is playing their first game back at home. The mental distraction is caused due to a letdown from fatigue, lack of organization among other elements. All these factors combined with coming home and having to settle back to their comfort zone causes NBA players to lose a slight lack of focus which is enough to play at a lower intensity level causing them to have a lack of success covering the NBA line against the spread.

Our sports handicapping research has shown us that when making NBA Picks in the second half of this season, betting against the team playing their first game at home after a 4 game or more road trip has won 70% of the time over the past 4 years.

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