{"id":2928,"date":"2008-12-06T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/thunder-heat-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T13:57:00","slug":"thunder-heat-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/thunder-heat-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder-Heat Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at AmericanAirlines Arena. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Heat listed as 11-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Thunder fell 98-87 to the Magic last time out, as 13-point underdogs. The 185 points fell UNDER the posted total of 205. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Russell Westbrook tossed in 19 points with nine boards in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Six players reached double-figures on Wednesday, as the Heat defeated the Jazz 93-89. The Heat won the game as 3.5-point underdogs, and the 182 points went UNDER the posted total of 199. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dwyane Wade shot 8-for-17 from the field with 23 points, five rebounds and five assists. Shawn Marion chipped in with 15 points in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oklahoma City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oklahoma City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 2-18 SU, 11-9 ATS
Miami: 10-9 SU, 9-9-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oklahoma City most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Golden State are 3-7
After playing Orlando are 6-4
After a loss are 1-9<\/p>\n

Miami most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Charlotte are 4-6
After playing Utah are 6-4
After a win are 2-8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Oklahoma City’s last 7 games when playing Miami
Oklahoma City is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Miami
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oklahoma City’s last 8 games when playing on the road against Miami
Oklahoma City is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Miami
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Miami’s last 7 games when playing Oklahoma City
Miami is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Oklahoma City
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Miami’s last 6 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Miami’s last 8 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oklahoma City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Golden<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Monday, December 8
Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Charlotte<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, December 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at AmericanAirlines Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Heat listed as 11-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Thunder fell 98-87 to the Magic last time out, as … Continue reading Thunder-Heat 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-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}