Once again few baskets in Ohio?
The Cleveland Cavaliers welcome the Los Angeles Clippers on 15/03/2022 starting at 00:00. The home side prevailed over the Californians in their only season-opening duel to date last October.
Cleveland Cavaliers – Statistics & current form
The mentioned result from the previous duel is surprising only at first glance, as two very defensively strong teams face each other in the encounter. The Cavs rank a very good fourth in the corresponding rating of the NBA and the Clippers follow not far away in seventh.
Head Coach J. B. Bickerstaff will now have to do without his center Jarrett Allen, who has to miss the game due to injury. This leaves the hosts without the NBA’s tenth-best rebounder and rookie Evan Mobley will now be even more challenged at the five.
However, the already powerful newbie should be up to the task: In the games without Allen he already delivered an average of twelve boards!
LA Clippers – statistics & current form
Head coach Tyronn Lue, who, like his counterpart at the Cavs, is in his sixth season as a coach in the NBA, can’t be too happy with his team’s performances at the moment. Only two of the past five rounds of games have been won.
Moreover, the victories in this review came only against the lightweights from Detroit and Washington, and only by narrow margins in each case.
Although LA has been able to compensate for its consistently strained personnel situation with the long-term injured top star Kawhi Leonard or the now also very long absence of Paul George this season mostly well, but meanwhile the strength in the remaining squad seems to decrease a little bit
Cleveland Cavaliers – LA Clippers tip
For the game on 03/15/2022 between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Clippers, betting on less than 211.5 points seems profitable. As described, the previous direct duel was not a basket festival with only 171 points and a similar course can be expected for the upcoming comparison.
Both teams are missing offensively strong players due to injuries, but at the same time the defensive work of the hosts and guests continues to work quite reliably.
Because of this, the recent games of the two teams have already been underwhelming in terms of results: Only two of the last five games of the Clippers ended with more than 211.5 points and in the case of the home side, there were only three in this review.
