{"id":11494,"date":"2011-05-29T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2011-05-29T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T19:47:18","slug":"nba-finals-odds-2011-mavericks-vs-heat-game-1-preview-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/nba-finals-odds-2011-mavericks-vs-heat-game-1-preview-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Finals Odds 2011: Mavericks vs. Heat Game 1 Preview, Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat meet in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. \u00a0The Heat are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/mavericks-vs-heat-nba-finals-odds-to-win-series-alternate-vegas-lines\/\">big favorites<\/a> to win the NBA Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in Game 1, the Heat are (-4.5) favorites with a total of 186.5.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas comes in 69-28 straight up, 57-38 against the spread, going over 55-41. They are 33-15 on the road outright, 32-16 according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=13\">sportsbooks<\/a> going over 28-20.<\/p>\n<p>Miami is a stunning 70-27 straight up, 49-46 against the spread, going over 50-46. At home it\u2019s 38-11, 21-27, and over 27-21 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas shoots 47.3 percent from the field versus squads that allocate an average of 45.8. \u00a0They allow 95.5 points per game to teams that usually get 99.8.<\/p>\n<p>Miami has a similar ratio on offense making 47.5 percent of their field goals to defenses that permit 45.6 while allowing 43.2 percent to squads that normally accumulate 45.7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spread betting trends <\/strong>(all records are against the spread): Dallas is 6-0 as an underdog, 8-2 playing on three or more days rest, 8-2 to Southeast, 20-8 on the road versus an opponent with a home winning percentage of .600 or better, 40-19 off straight up win, 41-20 on the road overall. Dallas is 9-1 in Miami and the road team is 19-7.<\/p>\n<p>Miami is 6-0 as favorites, but 10-22 playing on three or more days rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over\/under trends: <\/strong> Dallas over 9-4 as underdogs. Miami has gone over 7-0 as favorites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information: <\/strong>Get all the picks sides and totals for the NBA Finals and throughout baseball betting season as well at <a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=1\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat meet in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. \u00a0The Heat are big favorites to win the NBA Championship. Also, in Game 1, the Heat are (-4.5) favorites with a total of 186.5. Dallas comes in 69-28 straight up, 57-38 against the spread, going over 55-41. They are 33-15 on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/nba-finals-odds-2011-mavericks-vs-heat-game-1-preview-picks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NBA Finals Odds 2011: Mavericks vs. Heat Game 1 Preview, Picks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11496,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}