T.M. Selection: Knicks/Heat UNDER.

I am on the under in the New York Knicks vs Miami Heat game on Wednesday. The Knicks have been very up and down this year but they look like they are going to go from making the playoffs last year with a higher seed to missing them altogether this year with how they have looked and played in some of thier games lately. They have not been scoring a ton of points in their games lately with 2 of their previous 3 games having them score less than 100 points. In their previous 5 games, they have failed to reach 100 points in 3 of those games but they have been giving a much better defensive effort in some of those games. The most points they had given up to the opposing team during that time was 112 and the rest of their games they did not allow 110+ points from the opposing team. I think the Knicks are still going to have trouble scoring a lot of points here but I think they will try to compensate with a better defensive effort which is something that Tom Thibodeau stresses to his team anyway as he is a very defense oriented coach. Their defense has looked much better lately too so I think they can keep that up here and keep this a low scoring game. The Heat have been putting up points but not a ton of points in a lot of their games, in their previous 5 games the most they have put up in a single game was 113 points. The Heat are also missing some important players from their rotation for this game and I think that is going to slow down their pace and ability to put up a ton of points quicker. I expect this game to have more defense in it from both sides and I think the Knicks are going to continue their scoring troubles until something is fixed on that team because they are not moving in the right direction at the moment. I think this is going to be a low scoring game so I like the under here.

T.M. Prediction: 95-87 Heat.