Total of the Week NBA
(NBA) Raptors (TOR) vs. Clippers (LAC),
Total: 225.00 | -110.00 Under
Result: Win
ASA play on UNDER 225 Toronto Raptors at LA Clippers, 10:40 PM ET - The Clippers defense has improved immensely with Jeff Van Gundy as a Clippers assistant as they rank 6th in Efficiency ratings this season allowing just 1.101-points per possession. L.A. is coming off two straight games of allowing less than 100-points. The Clippers are also the 3rd slowest paced team in the NBA this season at 96.6 possessions per game. LA takes on average 15.2 seconds per possession to get a shot off which is 27th slowest in the league. Toronto has some horrific defensive numbers and ranks dead last in the league in Efficiency rating allowing 1.210PPP. Those numbers are somewhat misleading though as they have faced 7 opponents this season that rank top 10 in Offensive Efficiency which has skewed those defensive numbers. Tonight, they catch a break with the Clippers coming off a game last night and playing their 3rd game in four nights. The Clippers aren’t efficient offensively at 1.115PPP which ranks 19th in the NBA. The Raptors are 9th in pace of play and 11th in shots per second. Both teams rank in the bottom ten of the league in 3-point attempts so there won’t be a heavy volume of scoring from beyond the arc in this one. Our projections have this game finishing with 218 total points.