NBA Picks: Pistons vs Mavericks NBA Odds – January 5, 2009: After getting beat senselessly by the defending world champs, the (23-11) Dallas Mavericks [-8½] return home to host the sports betting odds underdog (11-21) Detroit Pistons [+8½]. Tipoff for this interconference matchup is scheduled to get underway at 8:40 PM ET live from American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on FSD and/or FSSW-DAL.
Detroit enters tonight’s game losers of nine consecutive contests, and sitting in fourth place in Central Division. The 
Mavericks, meanwhile, come in winners of six of their last ten games and leading the way in the Southwest Division. For those of you interested in betting on the Pistons vs Mavericks OVER/UNDER, SBGGLOBAL.com has set their mark at a combined total of 190 points scored.
For the Pistons, they will be trying to avoid extending the current losing streak to double-digits, as well as a second straight sweep of the season series. Detroit hasn’t lost 10 in a row since losing 13 during the 1993-94 campaign. Rodney Stuckey will have to deal with a sprained ankle suffered in a home loss to Chicago on Thursday.
"It hurt a lot – it always does when you sprain your ankle – and then it just gave out on me the second time," Stuckey said. "I was going to play though it if I could even walk, though, because we need to get something going. There's no way this group of players should only be scoring 87 points."
For the Mavs, they’re coming off the worst loss of the season, as the Lakers handed Dallas a 131-96 thumping. "We just didn't make shots, and when we tend not to make shots, we usually stop playing defense," Jason Kidd said. "That's what we kind of reverted to. But it's just one game. Now we go back home and play on Tuesday, so we'll get back going in the right direction."
"Some nights you don't have it offensively, but you at least have to get some stops to stay in the game," Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki said. "They had whatever they wanted."
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