{"id":2556,"date":"2008-11-05T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/suns-pacers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:06:00","slug":"suns-pacers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/suns-pacers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns-Pacers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Phoenix Suns and the Indiana Pacers will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Conseco Fieldhouse. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Suns burned the Nets 114-86 at the Continental Airlines Arena Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> easily covered as 6.5-point road favorites. The one-sided final score played under the total of 200.5 points set by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Pacers built up a 10 point lead in the opening quarter and never looked back in a 95-79 win over the Celtics last time out. The Pacers won that game as a 6-point underdog at home, while the combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under (191.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">T.J. Ford shot 5-for-8 from the field with 19 points, two boards and three assists. Danny Granger chipped in with 20 points in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 3-1 SU, 3-1 ATS <br \/>Indiana: 1-1 SU, 2-0 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Phoenix most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Chicago are 7-3<br \/>After playing New Jersey are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Indiana most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Cleveland are 3-7<br \/>After playing Boston are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Phoenix is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Indiana<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Phoenix&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Indiana<br \/>Phoenix is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Phoenix is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Indiana<br \/>Indiana is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Indiana&#8217;s last 6 games at home<br \/>Indiana is 10-2 ATS in its last 12 games when playing at home against Phoenix<br \/>Indiana is 8-3 ATS in its last 11 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, November 7<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at <st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, November 7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns and the Indiana Pacers will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Conseco Fieldhouse. Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Suns burned the Nets 114-86 at the Continental Airlines Arena Tuesday night. Phoenix easily covered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/suns-pacers-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suns-Pacers Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}