Utah at Houston

If it wasn't bad enough Gordon Hayward left for the Boston Celtics, now the Jazz have lost Rudy Gobert, Raul Neto, and Derrick Favors to injury. The impressive start has taken a back seat to a 1-5 stretch over their last six games. Despite all that, this team defends well enough to stay in a lot of games, and over their last 12 contests they are 9-3 ATS. Houston has been scary good, out to an NBA best 24-4 start, and putting 13 straight in the Win column. The issue for bettors is, these streaks tend to over-value a team and Houston has covered just one of their last five despite winning them all. Line is bloated here, and Utah has been good taking a lot of points. Make the play on Utah.