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The NBA Playoffs are in full swing! Four teams remain in both conferences, and the second round is just now starting to heat up. Tonight’s slate features two must-win matchups for the lower-seeded teams. The Miami Heat will look to keep it rolling against the hampered Philadelphia 76ers, while the Dallas Mavericks attempt to even things up with the now-healthy Phoenix Suns.
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Today, we’re taking a look at our Edge Finder tool. This feature is extremely useful for NBA bettors because of its depth and versatility. On a basic level, it’s a search engine through which you can filter by team, player, date, and wager to see where there might be value betting a certain matchup. Moreover, you can get even more granular with our advanced filters, enabling you to track betting results and data through filters such as game officials, previous results, team rest and much more. Here, we take a spin through the Edge Finder to extract where the betting angles lie for tonight’s Suns vs. Mavericks Game 2 matchup. Check out how we can examine past results on basic and advanced levels to find an edge:
NBA Edge Finder | Dallas Mavericks at Phoenix Suns Game 2 | 10 PM ET
When we utilize the basic index and then go more granular with the previous result advanced filter, it’s not hard to observe that the trends favor the Under on tonight’s Total (216.5). The Mavericks and Suns have in general trended toward the under over the course of 2021-22 regular and postseasons. Whether this comes as a result of books overestimating the offensive outputs of each team’s star scorers, we can’t say for sure, but a 54% hit rate is nothing to shrug off. That being said, it serves us to dive even deeper into how the teams individually have fared heading into games similar to how they are tonight. The Mavericks couldn’t manage to cover the 7-point spread in Game 2, so when we apply the previous result ATS loss filter in the advanced search engine, we see a strong trend toward the Under. A clip of 70% is extremely efficient in the world of sports betting, and considering both teams’ tendencies this season, the Under looks to be the play tonight.
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