The Indiana Pacers saw their three-game winning streak come to an end with a 104-84 home loss to Utah on Wednesday. They've played terrific defense lately, allowing an average of just 93.3 ppg during the winning streak, and I think they'll have little trouble to contain this lowly Hawks team which took a 106-90 loss at Toronto its last time out.

Each of Atlanta's last four games have gone under the total and only one of its last eight have gone over. Under is 5-0 in the Pacers' last five and just one of their last eight have gone over. Under is 8-0 in the last eight meetings.

The Pacers enter this game in a fourth-place tie with Washington in the East and only three games ahead of the conference's final playoff spot. Indiana can't afford to give the Hawks anything for free and I expect the home team to come out and play lockdown defense.

My free pick is on ATL @ IND to go UNDER the total.

Mike Lundin is coming off a PERFECT 4-0 SWEEP with College Basketball + NBA on Thursday to make it a +$10K CBB RUN and a +$21K NBA RUN! He cashed his CBB Game of the Week (Clemson) and is putting the basketball betting bankroll to work again with his MASSIVE 10* NBA GAME OF THE WEEK selection Friday night.