{"id":2993,"date":"2008-12-10T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/pacers-raptors-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T12:59:00","slug":"pacers-raptors-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/pacers-raptors-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers-Raptors Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Air Canada Centre will be treated to a game between the Indiana Pacers and the Toronto Raptors when they take their seats on Wednesday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Raptors listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pacers lost to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 122-117 in overtime as an 8-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (199). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Marquis Daniels led the Pacers with 26 points and Danny Granger had 20 points in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Reserve Joey Graham led Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> with 17 points in its 114-94 loss to Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> covered as 11-point home favorites as the game played over the 192-point total posted by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 3 straight games.
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 7-13 SU, 10-9-1<\/st1:date> ATS
Toronto: 8-12 SU, 7-13 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Indiana most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 7-3
Before playing Detroit are 4-6
After playing Boston are 3-7
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Indiana’s last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Indiana’s last 7 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Indiana’s last 6 games on the road
Indiana is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games
Toronto is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Indiana
Toronto is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Indiana
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Toronto’s last 9 games at home
Toronto is 11-4 ATS in its last 15 games when playing at home against Indiana<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, December 12
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at New Jersey<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, December 12<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The fans at Air Canada Centre will be treated to a game between the Indiana Pacers and the Toronto Raptors when they take their seats on Wednesday. Oddsmakers currently have the Raptors listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Pacers lost to Boston 122-117 in … Continue reading Pacers-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-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","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=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}