{"id":2791,"date":"2008-11-23T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/timberwolves-pistons-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-23T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T15:46:00","slug":"timberwolves-pistons-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/timberwolves-pistons-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves-Pistons Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Timberwolves and the Detroit Pistons will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at The Palace of Auburn Hills. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Pistons listed as 10-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Timbewolves were outplayed in the third quarter and could not recover in a 95-78 loss to the Celtics last time out, as 6-point underdogs. The 173 points fell UNDER the posted total of 183.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
All Jefferson<\/st1:place> shot 8-for-20 from the field with a game-high 23 points in that loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pistons lost 98-80 to the Celtics last time out, as 6.5-point road underdogs. The 178 points fell UNDER the posted total of 184. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rasheed Wallace tossed in 13 points with six rebounds. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 2-9 SU, 5-6 ATS
Detroit: 8-4 SU, 6-6 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 3-7
Before playing Phoenix are 2-8
After playing Boston are 7-3
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

Detroit most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 7-3
Before playing New York are 7-3
After playing Boston are 6-4
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Minnesota is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games
Minnesota is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 6 games when playing Detroit
Detroit is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Minnesota
Detroit is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Minnesota
Detroit is 19-5 SU in its last 24 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Detroit’s last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, November 26
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, November 26<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Minnesota Timberwolves and the Detroit Pistons will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Oddsmakers currently have the Pistons listed as 10-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Timbewolves were outplayed in the third … Continue reading Timberwolves-Pistons 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-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","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=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}