Portland at Charlotte

Both these teams have been playing better. Charlotte has covered four of their last five games as a home favorite and Portland is 15-6 as an underdog over their last 21 games and a perfect 12-0 as a dog of four points or less. So which way to go? We have a conflict on the side, but not the total. Charlotte, while playing better has seen their games top this total in 12 of their last 14 games at home while Portland teams has been 10-3 to the OVER playing on the road vs. sub .500. Combined, that is 22-5 for the OVER. Portland’s games have averaged 194-ppg in this situation. We will ride this one OVER the total.