Portland at Charlotte

The Charlotte Bobcats were a disgraceful team a season ago. However, bad teams have good stretches during the course of a long season. It happens that Charlotte's good run where they went 5-1 in a six game stretch came early and has this bad team, looking like they are on the improve. The problem is that in the rest of their games, outside the six game streak, they are 2-7, and that is more likely the team they are, so definate line value here on Portland. The Blazers are on a long road trip, and finally broke through with an OT win at Cleveland. They should get a bounce off their win with another very winnable game tonight. The Bobcats are just 17-35-1 ATS in their last 53 at home, including 8-22-1 ATS here vs. a team with a losing road record. Play on Portland.