New Zealand vs. China OVER 139.5
The last time these teams met was in the Good Luck Beijing Tournament and it was a 99-73 win for China in a very up-tempo game. New Zealand has proven to be one of the more up-tempo teams in this tournament. They have scored at least 60 points in all of there pre Olympic games and have reached that number in both games so far. I don’t think China can throw enough defense at them, even Mali scored 67 on them in exhibition. New Zealand has continued to play with poor defense in the first two Olympic games allowing Mali to shoot 47% and Spain to shoot 55% so it should be no problem for China to put up some points here. There probably going to be a little pissed of from the ass whipping from team USA and I look for them to rebound here.
New Zealand +20
This is kind of a pesky team and I think they can hang with China. They did blow the game with Spain as they were only down 12 with 2:00 left and the and a lot of end game things go against them. The oddsmakers had Spain a 3.5 favorite against China and Spain was a 16 point favorite over New Zealand so logically how can China be favored by 20 here? I think there is a lot of value in this one and going to take the points here.
The last time these teams met was in the Good Luck Beijing Tournament and it was a 99-73 win for China in a very up-tempo game. New Zealand has proven to be one of the more up-tempo teams in this tournament. They have scored at least 60 points in all of there pre Olympic games and have reached that number in both games so far. I don’t think China can throw enough defense at them, even Mali scored 67 on them in exhibition. New Zealand has continued to play with poor defense in the first two Olympic games allowing Mali to shoot 47% and Spain to shoot 55% so it should be no problem for China to put up some points here. There probably going to be a little pissed of from the ass whipping from team USA and I look for them to rebound here.
New Zealand +20
This is kind of a pesky team and I think they can hang with China. They did blow the game with Spain as they were only down 12 with 2:00 left and the and a lot of end game things go against them. The oddsmakers had Spain a 3.5 favorite against China and Spain was a 16 point favorite over New Zealand so logically how can China be favored by 20 here? I think there is a lot of value in this one and going to take the points here.