Odds Makers: Spurs Favorites/Heat Underdogs

[navy]

http://nba.si.com/2014/06/02/nba-finals-odds-spurs-heat-favorite-2014/
[quote]The Heat will look to complete their three-peat quest as underdogs.

Oddsmaking service Bovada.LV lists the Spurs as a slight favorite in the 2014 Finals, which begin Thursday night at San Antonio

[Velocirap31]

Hmm, looks like easy money to win by betting on the Heat

[SilkkTheShocker]

Will make it even sweeter when Miami crushes them

[Kiddlovesnets]

Spurs are the better team and they have HCA, its obvious and the odds makers know this fact.

[PJR]

Underdogs yet again. Heat against the world.

[LongLiveTheKing]

Underdogs yet again. Heat against the world.
Like always :applause:

[Marlo_Stanfield]

Heat underdogs for 3 straight years now:applause: :applause: :bowdown:

[navy]

Heat underdogs for 3 straight years now:applause: :applause: :bowdown:
They were favorites last year.

[BuffaloBill]

The Heat are only the underdogs because nobody likes them :lol

[oh the horror]

Heat underdogs for 3 straight years now:applause: :applause: :bowdown:

Reading comprehension fail.

[20Four]

Heat underdogs for 3 straight years now:applause: :applause: :bowdown:
Are you that dumb? You can't read? They were favorites last year :facepalm Lebron nut huggers as dumb as lebron lol

[DaSeba5]

Underdogs yet again. Heat against the world.

I wouldn't want it any other way.

[navy]

The Heat are only the underdogs because nobody likes them :lol
:oldlol:

[LeBron 06]

I love to be the underdog!

They was the underdogs vs OKC in 2012 too!!!

[AT9]

This series may as well be a toss up, so makes sense to give a slight edge to the team who gets 4 possible home games.

[TheMarkMadsen]

Heat fans proving illiteracy still runs strong in Miami

[r15mohd]

They were favorites last year.

:wtf: you're incorrect on this notion

[TimmyDuncan]

Just bet 300$ on the heat.
If I have to suffer like last year, I'd like to get at least a little money.

[navy]

:wtf: you're incorrect on this notion
2011 Favorites
2012 Underdogs
2013 favorites
2014 Underdogs

Incorrect about what?

[GeeWiz]

This is the most even series in recent memory, it can go both ways, neither team is an underdog really, the only reason the Spurs are the odds favourites is because they have HCA.

[Solefade]

heat play better as underdogs

[Heavincent]

Great, here we go with the Heat bandwagon playing the lovable underdog card.

[GeeWiz]

Great, here we go with the Heat bandwagon playing the lovable underdog card.

Is making excuses a regular thing on this website?

[Cocaine80s]

i dont understand.

last year the spurs looked like heavy favorites but were actually labeled as underdogs by oddsmakers.

This year heat look like the favorites yet they are the underdogs this time :wtf:

[SamuraiSWISH]

MJ won chips as underdog: '91, '93, '98

[GeeWiz]

i dont understand.

last year the spurs looked like heavy favorites but were actually labeled as underdogs by oddsmakers.

This year heat look like the favorites yet they are the underdogs this time :wtf:

As I said earlier, HCA is the reason why

[LeBron 06]

MJ won chips as underdog: '91, '93, '98


1991?????

After the Bulls swept the Pistons, I am sure that the bulls were favorite against the lakers

[lilteapot]

Odds makers mean nothing. All this proves is what we knew; that this series is a true tossup.

[SamuraiSWISH]

After the Bulls swept the Pistons, I am sure that the bulls were favorite against the lakers
They weren't. Especially after they lost game 1 on home court. People were favoring the Lakers due to experience, and Magic being the runner up MVP that season leading them into battle. It wasn't overwhelming, but I don't remember the Bulls being heavily favored. Granted I was very young during that 1991 Finals. My memory might be inaccurate. But I'm fairly certain they weren't favorites. 1993, and 1998 they were definitive underdogs.

[Le Shaqtus]

You'd be dumb not to bet money on the Heat, Spurs are not the favourites.

[TheReal Kendall]

Heat are underdogs because the East is booty basically.

[Droid101]

Despite this overwhelming evidence, the Heat are only slight underdogs to win the series in Las Vegas. The most common line suggests the Spurs have a 57 percent chance to win. In part, the discrepancy can be traced to the popularity of Miami, as two-time defending champion. But it also surely reflects a belief we still haven't seen the best of the Heat, given Miami's tendency to play better when behind in series and in fourth quarters.

That might prove the case, because the Heat haven't yet been seriously challenged in the playoffs. But they'll have to raise their level considerably to match the way San Antonio is playing. Six times this postseason, the Spurs have beaten opponents by 20 points more than an average team in the same situation. Miami has done that only once -- the closeout Game 6 against Indiana.

If the Heat are to win their third consecutive championship, it will mean defying three decades' worth of Finals trends.


http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11019992/the-miami-heat-defy-trends-pull-win-nba-finals

[Solefade]

Despite this overwhelming evidence, the Heat are only slight underdogs to win the series in Las Vegas. The most common line suggests the Spurs have a 57 percent chance to win. In part, the discrepancy can be traced to the popularity of Miami, as two-time defending champion. But it also surely reflects a belief we still haven't seen the best of the Heat, given Miami's tendency to play better when behind in series and in fourth quarters.

That might prove the case, because the Heat haven't yet been seriously challenged in the playoffs. But they'll have to raise their level considerably to match the way San Antonio is playing. Six times this postseason, the Spurs have beaten opponents by 20 points more than an average team in the same situation. Miami has done that only once -- the closeout Game 6 against Indiana.

If the Heat are to win their third consecutive championship, it will mean defying three decades' worth of Finals trends.


http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11019992/the-miami-heat-defy-trends-pull-win-nba-finals

the reason why san antonio has been blowing out teams and has such a big pt differential in their wins is because of the popovic vs stotts and brooks match up...

that certainly wasn't the case for carlisle who's probably on popovic's level with a way less talented team

[ArbitraryWater]

So both Thunder in 2012 and Spurs in 2014 were/are Favorites, yet LeBron crushed/crushes them AS UNDERDOG?! :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[ArbitraryWater]

MJ won chips as underdog: '91, '93, '98

Nah they weren't in 1991... Game 1 doesn't even change anything as it's too late.

[BoutPractice]

Oddmakers have it just about right.

There was an article that gave the Spurs a 88% chance of winning, but if you factor in that the Heat probably underperformed against relatively weak competition, saving themselves for this moment, Tony Parker's status, and the superstar factor, I'd lower their chances to around 55-60%.

[I<3NBA]

Well can someone post that insider article?

[ArbitraryWater]

Well can someone post that insider article?

What I thought :oldlol:

[Keno]

2 rings as the underdog while kobe has 0. another reason why he will be better.