Adding another dog..............
San Jose State +16 over Hawaii
Once again, I'll take almost any team in the nation getting over 15 pts from Hawaii, even if it's in Hawaii.
*** Reasons Hawaii won't cover this spread ***
1) Hawaii isn't the type of team to try to run it up on the other team. They are capable of running and gunning, but they'd rather play a half court ball control game and play to just win instead of blowing out their opponents.
2) They often take the 8 to 10 pt lead and they sit on it and play conservative, often times lazy. They are also have tendency to fall into scoring droughts.
3) Not to mention they aren't the best free throw shooting team down the stretch, which also makes it hard for them to hold or build a big lead.
4) Not to mention their rebounding is their biggest flaw, which allows even weaker opponents, who might not be shooting well, stay in the game.
5)San Jose st, again, will try to slow the game down and Hawaii tends to get trapped into playing down to their competition which is another huge flaw of theirs.
(San jose st exploited all these flaws when they upset Hawaii earlier this season.)
6) I don't see San jose st stealing another game now in Hawaii, but I predict they will play the same slow, ball control, eat clock type of game to fustrate Hawaii.
7) Hawaii could be looking ahead to the huge game against Tulsa this Thursday.
Only way I see San jose st not covering is if:
San Jose st doesn't take care of the ball and allows Hawaii to shoot a very very high percentage from the field.
San jose st does something stupid like try to play an up tempo game with Hawaii.
Things gotta go almost perfectly for Hawaii to cover the large spread. It doesn't have to go nearly as perfectly for San jose st to cover. I'll take the doggy and the large pt spread instead.
That's all I got today, goodluck!
