Chasing Pure Locks Review: Monday, November 1, 2021
Our first official segment of Chasing Pure Locks is in the books!
How did it go?
Welp. It could have gone better lol.
Our Pick: Blazers +2 at 76ers
The Result: This was NOT a Pure Lock. Far from it. It was an Anti-Lock.
An Anti-Lock is the polar opposite of a Pure Lock. An Anti-Lock is when the other side of your bet is where the Pure Lock actually did lie.
[Note: The Tobias Harris news broke after we originally posted, so this sucker actually closed at Blazers -2. Tobias is out due to the protocols.]
The Blazers were up 8-2 and it was allllll downhill from there.
76ers 113, Blazers 103.
No Embiid. No Tobias. (No Ben Simmons.) No problem for Philly.
Andre Drummond: 14 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals and 1 block. Big Drumm!
Seth Curry scored a game-high 23 points despite shooting 3-of-10 from 3.
Georges Niang chipped in 21 big points off the bench.
(Daryl Morey turned Josh Richardson into Seth Curry and signed Niang for $3.3 milly a year.)
Assists: 76ers 34, Blazers 21.
A great home win for the Sixers. Another dreadful loss for the Blazers.
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Our Pick: Raptors at Knicks -7
The Result: This was NOT a Pure Lock. But it sure started out looking like one!
The Knicks came out like gangbusters, draining four 3s right away. The Knicks started 6-of-8 from three-point land!
Up by 15 (!!) with 4 minutes left in the second quarter, we were sitting at a 73% chance to cover according to our handy dandy Action Network app. And just like the Blazers pick, this one went allllll downhill from there. (Or uphill if you’re looking at the below graph.)
This was a Mirage Lock. It looked like a Pure Lock, and then it turned into an Anti-Lock.
Raptors 113, Knicks 104.
Gary Trent Jr. and OG Anunoby drilled us (and the Knicks) in the second half, combining for eight 3s.
OG’s 36 points were a career-high. Going back to when Anunoby was the reason that our player-prop parlay on Underdog Fantasy busted on Opening Night Round II, he really owes us one.
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Our Pick: Bulls +2.5 at Celtics
The Result: This was NOT a Pure Lock. It started out looking really good, the Bulls were right in it!
Then all of a sudden… the Celtics were up by 19 points late in the 3rd quarter and this was looking like another Anti-Lock.
But the Bulls bench came alive in the 4th, thanks in the largest part to second-round rookie Ayo Dosunmu. Ayo (pronounced eye-oh) was the spark we needed to get the Bulls going. Dosunmu scored a career-high 14 points and didn’t miss a shot, a perfect 6 for 6.
In the 4th quarter, the Bulls outscored the Celtics 39-11!
This was a Roller Coaster Comeback Lock! Whoop whoop! We sure needed it.
Bulls 128, Celtics 114.
DeRozan scored a game-high 37 points with LaVine adding 26.
Trouble in Beantown. Marcus Smart had some things to say. (Pass the ball, boys.)
Chicago’s bench outscored Boston’s by 12 points. In our brief write-up on why we picked the Bulls, we did mention that coming into today, the Bulls bench had a net rating of +1.6 while the Celtics bench had a net rating of -7.0.
When you hit the Roller Coaster Comeback Lock. (That’s Ayo Dosunmu by the way. Love that guy!)
The face the girl is making is when you have an Anti-Lock on your hands.
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Where the Pure Locks At?
We didn’t predict any Pure Locks in our first official try. So where were the real Pure Locks tonight?
Thunder +12.5 at Clippers was the Purest Lock of the night:
Cavs +5 at Hornets was a close second. The last time the Hornets led was 3 minutes into the game at 7-4.
The Double Pure Lock of the night was Pacers -2.5 vs. Spurs and the Over 215.5 in that one. The Pacers led by 20+ throughout and they went Over by 33 points. The Pacers were DUE, snapping a four-game losing streak.
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Five games ahead on the lite Tuesday night slate.
Check back tomorrow for our next segment of Chasing Pure Locks.
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