Assessing the carnage

0-5-1 for a day of picking NBA games is no easier to do than 5-0-1. Watching the scoreboard Saturday night felt like walking into the wedding carnage scene in "Kill Bill, Vol. 1." There was blood everywhere.

Some of it I deserved. I had a hunch the Jazz would not beat New Orleans twice in their home-and-home. But the extent of the dispair! Charlotte and Phoenix had a 74-point first quarter. The 210 looked generous to the under going in, and it wasn't enough to contain a 3-quarter trend. Ugh.

My system produces a forecast for every NBA game, and it occurs to me I'm listing the picks wrong. Since February 1, the system is producing SU winners 68 percent, with those teams covering about about 53 percent. So that said, here's Monday's forecast:

• Det 5 over Clev
• NJ 4 over Atl
• Mia 5 over Tor
• Was 2 over Mem
• Dal 13 over Phil
• SA 18 over NY
• Hou 5 over Phx
• Den 1 over Mil
• Sac 17 over Port
• GS 4 over Ut
• LAC 7 over Char

Good luck.