{"id":2620,"date":"2008-11-10T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/trail-blazers-magic-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T12:59:00","slug":"trail-blazers-magic-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/trail-blazers-magic-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers-Magic Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers and the Orlando Magic will<br \/>both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet<br \/>at Amway Arena. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 7-point<br \/>favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game&#39;s<br \/>total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Trail Blazers scored 28 points in the fourth<br \/>quarter to come back and defeat the Timberwolves 97-93<br \/>last time out. The Trail Blazers failed to cover the<br \/>8-point spread, while the 190 points fell UNDER the<br \/>posted total of 192. <br \/>LaMarcus Aldridge netted a team-high 24 points with 13<br \/>rebounds for a double-double, and Brandon Roy also<br \/>tossed in 24 points in the win. <br \/>The Magic took over in the second quarter on Saturday,<br \/>as they defeated the Wizards 106-81. The Magic covered<br \/>the 9-point spread, while the 187 points went UNDER<br \/>the posted total of 198.5. <br \/>Dwight Howard netted a game-high 31 points with 16<br \/>rebounds for a double-double in the win. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Portland has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Orlando has won 4 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Portland: 3-3 SU, 2-4 ATS <br \/>Orlando: 4-2 SU, 3-3 ATS <br \/>Portland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Miami are 5-5<br \/>After playing Minnesota are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Orlando most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Oklahoma City are 4-6<br \/>After playing Washington are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Portland&#39;s last 10<br \/>games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Portland&#39;s last 5<br \/>games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Portland&#39;s last 13<br \/>games when playing Orlando<br \/>Portland is 12-6 SU in its last 18 games when playing<br \/>Orlando<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Orlando&#39;s last 8<br \/>games <br \/>Orlando is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing<br \/>Portland<br \/>Orlando is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing<br \/>Portland<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Orlando&#39;s last 6<br \/>games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Portland at Miami, Wednesday, November 12<br \/>Orlando at Oklahoma City, Wednesday, November 12<\/p>\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 Portland Trail Blazers and the Orlando Magic willboth be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meetat Amway Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 7-pointfavorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game&#39;stotal has not yet been posted. The Trail Blazers scored 28 points in the fourthquarter to come back and defeat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/trail-blazers-magic-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trail Blazers-Magic 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-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}