Phoenix Suns vs Los Angeles Lakers Game 6 Betting Picks, Predictions, Odds & Lines

The Lakers will try to avoid elimination from the playoffs as they host the Suns on Thursday night. The reigning champs will look to redeem themselves after an embarrassing performance in Game 5. On Tuesday, the Lakers were blown off the court as the Suns won 115-85. If they lose tonight, it will be the only first-round exit for LeBron James in his career. With Tuesday’s defeat, the Lakers are now 45-33 straight up for the season. Against the spread, they’re 34-43-1. The Suns are showing in this series that they weren’t seeded second in the West by accident. After great performances in games 4 and 5, they will look to finish the job tonight with a 3rd straight win. Over the whole season, they’re 54-23 SU and 45-30-2 ATS. Including the playoffs, the two teams met 8 times already in this campaign. The Suns won 5 of those matchups.

Line Movement

At the moment, the Lakers are favored by -2. It’s a slight drop from the opening -3. The total opened at 208.5 and has dropped by half a point since, standing at 208 right now.

Notes on Phoenix Suns

On Tuesday, the Suns took control of the game from the very start and never looked back. They led by 12 after the 1st quarter and completely annihilated the Lakers in the second. They won that period 32-10. As Chris Paul is still not 100%, Devin Booker and Cam Payne took the rains. The pair combined for 28 points in the 1st period, shooting 11-15 from the field. Payne has been a revelation in this series with his excellent performances. Since Paul’s injury, the backup point guard is scoring 15.8 ppg in 25.8 minutes. The one worrying thing for the Suns is Booker’s performance on the road. At home in this series, he averages 31.7 points on 50% shooting. However, in two road games, he’s down to only 18.0 ppg on 33% from the field. We’ll see if that trend continues tonight.

Chris Paul is again listed as questionable. Abdel Nader is the only other notable absentee for the Suns.

Notes on Los Angeles Lakers

With Davies issues, all eyes are on LeBron for the rest of this series. The LA start has carried worse teams to playoff success in earlier years, but he seems to be missing his trademark aggressiveness in this series. It’s best shown in his FT attempts, which are down to only 3.4 per game. He did finish last game with 24 points, but 17 of those came in the meaningless 2nd half. Also, for the Lakers to have any chance, the other players will have to shoot much better. The only two players to shoot over 33% in the first 5 games are LeBron and Marc Gasol. While he’s the defensive anchor of this team, it seems that the Lakers miss Davis on offense much more. The Lakers are shooting under 40% in all three halves since he went down. His status for tonight is in the air, so make sure to follow the news closely during the day.

Besides Davis, Caldwell-Pope is the only other player uncertain for tonight. Both players are listed as game time decisions.

Betting Pick: UNDER 208

so far only one game in the series has gone over this line and we have no reason to expect anything different tonight. The Lakers continue to struggle on offense and even if Davis plays, it’s questionable how ready he is. On the other hand, the Suns failed to score more than 100 points in both road games so far.