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At 8:00 ET, the Pacers will travel to Milwaukee to take on the Bucks. Milwaukee is favored by 5 points and has won two straight games. Indiana is 10th in the Eastern Conference and has lost two straight.

This game will be played at Fiserv Forum and can be seen on FDSW. The over/under line for this matchup is 237 points.<h3>INDIANA PACERS VS MILWAUKEE BUCKS BETTING PICK</h3>The Pick: Milwaukee Bucks -5This game will be played at Fiserv Forum at 8:00 ET on Friday, November 22nd.<h3>WHY BET THE MILWAUKEE BUCKS:</h3><ul><li>We have this one finishing with a projected score of 124-109 in favor of the Bucks.</li><li>Our projections have Giannis Antetokounmpo finishing with 30 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists.</li><li>From the field, we have the Bucks finishing with a field goal percentage of 46.9% and knocking down 15 threes.</li></ul><h3>Can the Pacers Pull Off a Win at Milwaukee?</h3>The Pacers dropped to 6-9 on the season after a 130-113 loss to the Rockets on Wednesday. Indiana, who entered the game as +6 point underdogs, failed to cover the spread. The total score of 243 points exceeded the O/U line of 232.5 by 10.5 points. Indiana fell behind early, trailing 30-23 after the 1st quarter and 62-53 at halftime. A rough 3rd quarter saw them outscored 36-24, putting them down 98-77 heading into the 4th. Despite a 36-point effort in the final period, the Pacers couldn’t close the gap.In their Wednesday loss to the Rockets, the Pacers shot 53% from the field, but struggled from beyond the arc, hitting just 5 threes at a 22.7% clip. Quenton Jackson led the way with 24 points, shooting 83.3%, while Pascal Siakam added 21 points, 16 of which came in the 2nd quarter. T.J. McConnell contributed 17 points, with 6 coming in the final period. Jackson scored 9 points in the 3rd quarter, and added 6 more in the 4th.Defensively, the Pacers struggled on Wednesday, allowing 130 points to the Rockets. Indiana gave up 30 points in the 1st quarter, 32 in the 2nd, 36 in the 3rd, and 32 in the 4th. Indiana held Houston to 33% shooting from three, with the Rockets making 12 threes. The Pacers also recorded 7 steals and 9 blocks in the game.<h3>Can the Bucks Grab a Win at Home?</h3>The Bucks improved to 6-9 on the season with a 122-106 win over the Bulls on Wednesday. Milwaukee, playing at home, covered the -8.5 point spread, while the game’s total of 228 points fell short of the 239-point over/under line. A key moment in the game was a 16-0 run by the Bucks, which stretched the score from 33-30 to 49-30. Milwaukee closed out the game strong, holding the Bulls to just 16 points in the 4th quarter while scoring 24 of their own.Giannis Antetokounmpo's 41-point, 9-rebound performance on 70.8% shooting led the Bucks to a 122-106 win over the Bulls. Brook Lopez added 21 points, hitting 75% from the field, while Damian Lillard contributed 20 points and 10 assists, despite shooting just 41.2%. Milwaukee shot 55% as a team, connecting on 13 threes at a 36.1% rate. Giannis dominated the 3rd quarter with 25 points, while AJ Green scored 11 of his 18 points in the opening period.Despite giving up 106 points on 46% shooting, the Bucks' defense tightened up in the 4th quarter, allowing just 16 points to secure the win over the Bulls. Milwaukee struggled to contain Chicago from beyond the arc, where the Bulls hit 17 threes at a 37% clip. The Bucks did a good job of keeping the Bulls off the free-throw line, where they attempted just 7 shots. Milwaukee also controlled the glass, allowing only 5 offensive rebounds while recording 7 steals in the game.

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One of the things that is going to make this NFL Draft a lot more fun is that you can engage in draft props that are produced by the folks at <a href="http://bangthebook.com/sportsbooks/betonline">BetOnline</a>. Even though we are pretty certain about who's going to be taken first (Trevor Lawrence, by Jacksonville), what comes after that is not certain at all.

For example, the third pick is owned by the San Francisco 49ers.

Here are the latest odds on who that is going to be:

NFL 2021 Draft -- 3rd Pick Overall

Justin Fields, QB.Ohio State -180
Mac Jones, QB, Alabama +120
Trey Lance, QB, North Dakota State +500
Zach Wilson, QB, BYU +2500

The 49ers obviously moved into this spot for a reason. And that reason is to draft a quarterback.

It's not completely because they are dissatisfied with Jimmy Garoppolo. But they are not optimistic about him being part of their future. And he seems unusually prone to injuries.

As the rumor mill stood at one time, the guy they had their eyes on was Mac Jones, who took over for Tua Tagovailoa about midway through the 2019 season, and then had a terrific campaign in leading Alabama to the national title in 2020.

We can tell you that the early mock drafts had Jones well down the board, going late in the first round. But he's risen. To be honest, there have been some reservations about him among the NFL scouts.

One is that he does not have any mobility. But people like Richard Sherman have commented that he thinks there is a "recency bias," meaning that because of the success of quarterbacks who can pull the ball down and run with it, The classic dropback QB's tend to be looked down upon.

And of course, there is that feeling the Jones has had the best athletes around him and that has served to make his performances look better. But you wouldn't be honest if you didn't admit that he has added an awful lot to that offense, which was being stewarded by Steve Sarkisian this past season.

We have heard skepticism about the strength of his arm, but Jones threw 15% of his passes at least 20 yards down the field, and produced 18 touchdowns that way. Furthermore, he has completed 64% of his passes that have gone at least 30 yards down the field. He was at the helm of one of the two or three most efficient offenses in the history of college football. And he earned the highest single-season quarterback rating ever from the people at Pro Football Focus.

What has been pointed out time and again is that Jones only made 17 starts as a collegian. But you can't argue too much with his numbers from the 2020 season - a 77.4% accuracy rate, 41 touchdown passes and only four interceptions.

So why did he go from a favorite of -175 in this prop to an underdog of +120 below Justin Fields at <a href="http://bangthebook.com/s/betonline">BetOnline</a>? Well, one of those things that emerges every year about one of draftees - in the way of "dirt" - has been revealed about Jones, and critics are taking advantage of it.

It seems that when he was just 14 years old, Jones, for the purposes of a Halloween costume, wore a shirt that said "Nobama" (an obvious reference to then-President Barack Obama) and a wig of dreadlocks. And that went out on Twitter.

So now the speculation revolves around how that politically-incorrect action from eight years ago might affect his draft status.

It should be noted that Nick Bosa was also "captured" with some politically-correct statements - which he actually posted directly to Twitter - which were screenshot before he was able to tear them down. And he was roasted by the woke crowd. But that did not prevent the Niners from drafting him second overall.

Will San Francisco be singing a different tune this time around, only two years later? Perhaps the decision comes down to who fits better into Kyle Shanahan's offensive vision. Remember that he comes from the same coaching "tree" that has produced Sean McVay of the Rams, who has replaced one dropback passer (Jared Goff) with another (Matthew Stafford).

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