T.M. Selection: Trail Blazers/Magic OVER.

I am on the over in the Portland Trail Blazers vs Orlando Magic game on Monday. Portland just lost their best player Damian Lillard but they have still looked good in their games without him lately winning 3 games in their previous 4. They have scored 100+ points in 10 games in a row and I expect them to do the same in this game. The Magic don't really play any defense in their games either so I expect the Trail Blazers to keep up their run and put up a lot of points on the Magic here. The Blazers don't play great defense themselves either though. They have given up 105+ points in 3 games in a row and have given up 100+ points in every single game over their previous 20 games except for 1. The Blazers are used to high scoring games though, they have had both teams put up 100+ points in 9/10 games of their L10. The Magic have not been a high scoring team really but lately they have been putting up a lot of points in their games. They have put up 100+ points in 3 of their previous 4 games. They have also given up 100+ points in 4 games in a row and their defense has been terrible all year. The Magic are still missing key players here and I think that is going to be a factor to their defense. The Magic don't play defense well with their starters in so I expect them to be even worse on defense without them in this game. The Trail Blazers are also missing key players so I think they aren't going to play good defense either. I think both of these teams aren't going to defend well enough and I think both are just going to push each other to put up more points as the game goes on. I like the over in this game.

T.M. Prediction: 117-112 Trail Blazers.