No blowout for the visitors?
The Eastern Conference leaders are inviting you to the dance, and we’re giving you a Detroit Pistons vs. Atlanta Hawks tip! Two years ago, the home team was more or less the laughing stock of the NBA with a disastrous win rate of 17.1 percent. However, things started to look up last season when they reached the playoffs, and the upward trend has continued in the current NBA season.
The Pistons are particularly strong at home, with 11 of their 13 games in front of their own fans ending in victory for Coach J.B. Bickerstaff’s men. For the upcoming game at Little Caesars Arena between the Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks, the prediction is now for more than 21 points from Nickeil Alexander-Walker. With the Hawks’ top scorer Trae Young out of action, he is currently under particular pressure, but he is rising to the challenge.
Furthermore, we don’t see a blowout for the visitors. The Hawks have been playing better away than at home so far and are in second place in the Eastern Conference standings.
While their win rate in home games is 40 percent, it rises to 66.7 percent on the road! In light of this, the Pistons vs. Hawks odds that the visiting team will lose by a maximum of seven points are also worth considering.
Furthermore, we believe Jalen Johnson is capable of scoring at least 25 points. The visitors’ forward is in strong form and has exceeded the selected limit in four of the last five games. On top of that, he recently played consistently well against the Pistons. In the two meetings this season, he scored 25 and 29 points!
Detroit Pistons – Atlanta Hawks Head-to-head comparison / H2H record
The teams have already faced each other twice this season, with the Pistons coming out on top each time. However, the victory in the last matchup at the beginning of this month was a narrow 99-98 win. Thanks to these two victories, the home team has now extended its winning streak to three games.
Furthermore, the visitors have only won one of their last six games. The bookmakers now see the Detroit Pistons as the hot favorites to win against the Atlanta Hawks.
Detroit Pistons – Atlanta Hawks Tip
The visitors can be described as an average team in the Eastern Conference, and the injury-related absence of Trae Young means that the Hawks are currently missing one of their top players. Without him, Atlanta’s offense in particular is weakened. Before his injury, “Ice Trae” had averaged 17.8 points and just under eight rebounds in five games this season.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker is currently the linchpin of the Georgia team’s offense. The guard is currently the best replacement for Young. The 27-year-old is averaging 20.7 points, more than doubling his career average (9.2)!
Admittedly, this huge increase is due in no small part to increased playing time, but he has recently stepped up his game once again. Nickeil Alexander-Walker has scored 30 or more points in half of the last six games.
With that in mind, we’re going for the betting odds on the Canadian pro from Toronto scoring 22 or more points again in the matchup between the Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks. This prediction is backed up by his two strong performances against the Pistons this season, in which he scored 24 and 26 points!
