{"id":2906,"date":"2008-12-05T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/bobcats-bucks-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T17:18:00","slug":"bobcats-bucks-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/bobcats-bucks-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcats-Bucks 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 Charlotte Bobcats and the Milwaukee Bucks will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Bradley<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Center<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place>. <?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\">Oddsmakers currently have the Bucks listed as 4-point favorites versus the Bobcats, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 186. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Emeka Okafor tossed in 25 points with 13 rebounds for a double-double on Wednesday, as the Bobcats defeated the Thunder 103-97. The Bobcats failed to cover the 8.5-point spread, while the 200 points made it OVER the posted total of 191.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Gerald Wallace had 21 points for the Bobcats, and Sean May added 10 points with 12 rebounds. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Charlie Villanueva dropped 23 points with 10 rebounds for a double-double on Wednesday, as the Bucks defeated the Bulls 97-90. The Bucks covered the 4.5-point sread, while the 187 points fell UNDER the posted total of 201. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Richard Jefferson added 21 points for the Bucks, and Michael Redd added 13 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>Charlotte<\/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>Charlotte<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 7-11 SU, 11-7 ATS <br \/>Milwaukee: 8-12 SU, <st1:date Month=\"6\" Day=\"13\" Year=\"2001\">13-6-1<\/st1:date> ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Charlotte most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 2-8<br \/>Before playing Cleveland are 3-7<br \/>After playing Oklahoma City are 3-5<br \/>After a win are 1-9<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing LA Lakers are 5-5<br \/>After playing Chicago are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Charlotte is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee<br \/>Charlotte is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games <br \/>Charlotte is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Charlotte&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>Milwaukee is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Charlotte<br \/>Milwaukee is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Milwaukee&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>Milwaukee is 12-3 SU in its last 15 games when playing Charlotte<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Charlotte<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, December 6<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at LA Lakers, Sunday, December 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 Charlotte Bobcats and the Milwaukee Bucks will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Bradley Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Bucks listed as 4-point favorites versus the Bobcats, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 186. Emeka Okafor tossed in 25 points with 13 rebounds for a double-double on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/bobcats-bucks-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bobcats-Bucks 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-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","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=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}