{"id":2955,"date":"2008-12-07T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/trail-blazers-raptors-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T15:19:00","slug":"trail-blazers-raptors-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/trail-blazers-raptors-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers-Raptors Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Portland Trail Blazers and the Toronto Raptors will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Air Canada Centre. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Trail Blazers listed as 3-point favorites versus the Raptors, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Trail Blazers were clipped 93-78 by the Celtics last time out, as 8-point road underdogs. The 171 points went UNDER the posted total of 185. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Travis Outlaw and Lyle Aldridge each had 13 points in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Raptors lost their third straight in a 114-87 defeat at the hands of the Jazz last time out, as 4.5-point underdogs. The combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 206.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chris Bosh had a double-double for the Raptors, collecting 18 points and 11 rebounds. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 14-7 SU, 11-10 ATS
Toronto: 8-10 SU, 6-12 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Portland most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 2-8
Before playing Orlando are 5-5
After playing Boston are 5-5
After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Portland’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Portland’s last 5 games
Portland is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
Portland is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Toronto is 8-2 ATS in its last 10 games when playing Portland
Toronto is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Portland
Toronto is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Portland
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Toronto’s last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, December 9
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, December 9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers and the Toronto Raptors will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Air Canada Centre. Oddsmakers currently have the Trail Blazers listed as 3-point favorites versus the Raptors, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Trail Blazers were clipped 93-78 by … Continue reading Trail Blazers-Raptors 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-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","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=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}