{"id":2956,"date":"2008-12-07T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/celtics-pacers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T15:21:00","slug":"celtics-pacers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/celtics-pacers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics-Pacers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Celtics and the Indiana Pacers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Conseco Fieldhouse. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics improved to 19-2 with an 93-78 victory over the Trail Blazers on Friday. The Celtics covered the 8-point spread, and the 171 points went UNDER the posted total of 185. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rajon Rondo had 16 points, eight rebounds and seven assists to lead the way. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pacers fell 97-73 to the Cavaliers last time out, as 11-point underdogs. The combined score fell UNDER the night’s posted total of 207. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Troy Murphy shot 6-for-10 from the field with 15 points and six rebounds in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 11 straight games.
Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 19-2 SU, 12-9 ATS
Indiana: 7-12 SU, 9-9-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 6-4
Before playing Washington are 4-6
After playing Portland are 8-2
After a win are 10-0<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Boston is 8-1 ATS in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Indiana
Boston is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Indiana
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Indiana’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Indiana’s last 5 games when playing Boston
Indiana is 15-6 SU in its last 21 games at home
Indiana is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Boston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Thursday, December 11
Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, December 10<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Celtics and the Indiana Pacers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Conseco Fieldhouse. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Celtics improved to 19-2 with an 93-78 victory over the Trail … Continue reading Celtics-Pacers 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-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}