Portland Trailblazers versus Miami Heat versus Pick Prediction NBA Pro Basketball Odds Preview 1-10-2013

The 23-10 Miami Heat will make the long trip to the Pacific Northwest to face the Portland Trailblazers in an NBA pro basketball game on Thursday night. Tip off time from Portland is scheduled for 10:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by TNT. The current NBA odds has the road club Miami Heat favored by -3 ½ points with an over under line of 196 points. There has been no line movement on the side or total since the odds opened up a few hours ago. The teams met once during the lockout season a year ago and it was Miami with the 107-93 road win at Portland as a -3 ½ point betting favorite. The game went over 198 ½ points. Trend: The over is 5-0 in their past five head to head meetings.The Heat is just 7-7 on the road this season. They were held to their season low in points on Tuesday in an 87-77 road defeat to the Indiana Pacers as a -2 point betting favorite. The game landed under 187 points. Miami’s lack of size down low cost the Heat as they pull down 19 less rebounds than the Pacers in the loss. The Heat was held to just 41% shooting in the loss. James, Wade and Bosh scored 66 of the Heats 77 points. Miami is looking for help in the low post and gave former Nuggets big man Chris Anderson a workout. Portland is 12-4 on their home court on the season. They are playing their best basketball of the season with 11 wins in their past 14 games. They were in a tough spot on Monday playing their first home game with one days rest following a four game east coast trip. They get by the Orlando Magic on Monday 125-119 at home in overtime as a -6 ½ point betting favorite. The game landed over 192 points. Portland had a good shooting night making 51% of their shots and turned it over only nine times. That’s the difference between this year’s teams and last years. The turnovers are down because the guard play is much better. Rookie Damian Lillard dished out five assists in the win. On the season Lillard is averaging 18 points and 6 ½ assists per game.