{"id":2567,"date":"2008-11-06T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/rockets-trail-blazers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-06T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T13:16:00","slug":"rockets-trail-blazers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/rockets-trail-blazers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets-Trail Blazers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Rose Garden. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rockets listed as 5-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rockets went down to the wire with the Celtics but lost 103-99 at the Toyota Center Tuesday night <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston won as a 3-point road underdog. The final score played over the 177.5-point total set by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Trail Blazers were defeated 103-96 by the Jazz last time out, as 6.5-point underdogs. The 199 points made it OVER the posted total of 186.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge had 18 points apiece in a losing effort. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Portland has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston: 3-1 SU, 1-3 ATS
Portland: 1-3 SU, 2-2 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing LA Clippers are 5-5
After playing Boston are 7-3
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Portland most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Minnesota are 3-7
After playing Utah are 6-4
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Houston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Portland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Houston’s last 9 games when playing Portland
Houston is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Portland
Portland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Portland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Portland’s last 9 games when playing Houston
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Portland’s last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston at LA Clippers, Friday, November 7
Portland home to Minnesota, Saturday, November 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Rose Garden. Oddsmakers currently have the Rockets listed as 5-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Rockets went down to the wire with the Celtics … Continue reading Rockets-Trail Blazers Preview<\/span> →<\/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-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","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=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}