At least according to Online odds: http://sports.bovada.lv/sports-betting/nba-basketball-lines.jsp The rockets have about a 17% chance of winning. The rockets are pretty disrespected by bettors. I think this is great odds on the rockets I wish gambling was legal. I would definitely put money on rockets given the crazy odds they are giving.
You can set up an online account through a bunch of offshore books online like 5dimes and bet all you want.
Be honest... not just random internet chest-puffing: You would put a *SIGNIFICANT* amount of your personal money on this? Because honestly I would not. I mean sure if it's only $100 or $200 then whatever... but nothing truly significant Because honestly I'm picking Warriors in 6, if my life was dependent on it
17%, wow, that's high. Didn't we have like only 1% of chance of winning the series when we were down by 19 in G6 late 3rd against the Clippers. That all going to change after the rude awakening tomorrow to the Warriors.
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In other words, Vegas thinks your stupid if you bet on the Rockets and smart if you take the Warriors in this series.
Legal?? You can bet (with your debit/credit card) on the very site you referenced and have your winnings debited back or a check sent within a week.
you're* Honestly, the Warriors -10 should not come as a shock to anyone. That's their point diff this season. It was 15.7 against the Rockets and 16.7 in their last 3 playoff games against the 4th best team in the west. Finally, they beat the Rockets by 25 and 13 this season when they had everyone on their current roster minus Pablo and Jones, plus Schved (who played well in those games), Beverley, and D-Mo. The also won the other two games by 12 and 11. tl;dr: Vegas did their homework.
Placed 250 on the Rockets. If we lose I'm cool with having paid that much for the show they put on games 6 and 7. If we win which I'm pretty confident we will... Well I'm 1500 bucks richer.
We had less than 1% chance to win Game 6. After that you can throw away any number out the window. Doesn't matter who we play after that game, the chances of winning are 50/50. If the team from Game 7 shows up and the refs call a fair game...the chances of winning are reversed of the bets.
2 out of 10 people picking the rockets isn't that bad. What do you expect it to be? 50% Of course not, 40%? Eh little bit of a stretch. 30% / 20%? Sounds normal to me.
And we may very well have a 40% - 30% chance to win this series, but 9 out of 10 people are going to take the 60 to 70% when voting on who they think will take the series. Some of yall are in search of getting butt hurt over everything too much.
You know why the Rockets have only a 12 % chance of winning? Because that's all we need. We have a D12 % chance of winning. Dwight needs to dominate.
What we really need is strong perimeter defense. Ariza and Brewer need to contest everything out there, and Harden needs to get his act together on defense.
