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Flyers and Sixers Both Tuesday Night Road Dogs
By Joe Tansey
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The Sixers and Flyers are both money-line underdogs on Tuesday night.
However, only one of those teams has a promising outlook to win, and that’s the Sixers. They’re a 1.5-point underdog against the Bulls at BetMGM.
Anything is possible with Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe in their current form, but there’s also a matchup advantage for Joel Embiid against Nikola Vucevic.
Embiid averages 25.2 points and 11.3 rebounds in his career in head-to-head matchups with Vucevic. Over their six last meetings, he’s scored 40 points twice and had two more 30-point performances.
Embiid’s point prop at bet365 is Over/Under 19.5. The over is so damn enticing, even with the minutes restriction still in place, because of what Embiid has done in his career against Vucevic and what opposing centers have done to the Bulls early in the season.
Karl-Anthony Towns went for 20 and 15 and 22 and 10 in consecutive games against Chicago. Domantas Sabonis also put up 18, 11, and 6 last week versus Chicago.
Embiid went for 20 and 6 on Friday and 25 and 7 against the Wizards on Tuesday, so it’s easy to fall in love with the points prop.
bet365 has a Safety Net Bet available for SGPs with up to $10 back in bonus bets. I’d attack the Sixers angle against an opponent that gives up 116.3 points per game.
I’d pair Embiid 20+ points with Tyrese Maxey over 7.5 assists and 3+ three pointers made. Maxey is averaging 9.4 assists per game and he’s hit at least three triples in every game so far. That SGP sits at +300.
If you want to get a little more specific with PA sports betting apps and New Jersey sports betting apps, Embiid o5.5 first-quarter points and Maxey o2.5 first-quarter assists combine together to get you to +240. If Embiid goes off early, I’d expect Maxey to feed him most of the passes.
Flyers at Canadiens
I wanted to buy in on the Flyers. I really did.
And then they stunk up the Xfinity Mobile Arena with an awful performance on Sunday night against a Calgary team that is going through its own set of struggles.
Montreal is the team I want the Flyers to be. The Canadiens hit on a handful of draft picks, have a rising star in Cole Caufield, an incredible top line, and a great first-pair D-man in Lane Hutson.
The Canadiens won five of their last six and they’ve scored at least four goals in five games of that recent stretch. The Flyers have scored two goals or less in five of their six losses, a bad omen for tonight’s jaunt up to Quebec.
The Montreal money line of -160 at BetMGM seems like the reasonable bet, especially after how the Flyers fell flat against Calgary, and before that, Toronto.
I’d look into a poing SGP line stack for Montreal’s Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki, both of whom have had two straight multi-point games. Caufield and Suzuki to record a point plus Canadiens ML gets you to +115 before you apply bet365’s 30 percent profit boost.
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Joe Tansey writes sports betting posts for Crossing Broad and also covers the Philadelphia Union for his Substack site, Union Soccer Blog.