{"id":3012,"date":"2008-12-13T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/pacers-bucks-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:53:00","slug":"pacers-bucks-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/pacers-bucks-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers-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 Indiana Pacers and the Milwaukee Bucks will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday 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\u00bd-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Pacers fell 114-110 to the Pistons last time out, as 6-point underdogs. The game&#8217;s 224 points sailed OVER the posted total of 200. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Danny Granger tossed in a game-high 42 points for the Pacers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Bucks were defeated 119-96 by the Warriors last time out, as 1.5-point underdogs. The 215 points fell UNDER the posted total of 220. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Michael Redd tossed in a game-high 27 points in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 5 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 7-15 SU, <st1:date Month=\"11\" Day=\"10\" Year=\"2001\">11-10-1<\/st1:date> ATS <br \/>Milwaukee: 9-15 SU, <st1:date Month=\"8\" Day=\"15\" Year=\"2001\">15-8-1<\/st1:date> ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Indiana most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Washington are 3-7<br \/>After playing Detroit are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Miami are 6-4<br \/>After playing Golden State are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Indiana is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Milwaukee<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Indiana&#8217;s last 9 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee<br \/>Indiana is 5-12 SU in its last 17 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee<br \/>Indiana is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Milwaukee is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home<br \/>Milwaukee is 12-5 SU in its last 17 games when playing at home against Indiana<br \/>Milwaukee is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>Milwaukee is 14-6-1 ATS in its last 21 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at <st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Monday, December 15<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, December 15<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 Indiana Pacers and the Milwaukee Bucks will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Bradley Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Bucks listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Pacers fell 114-110 to the Pistons last time out, as 6-point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/pacers-bucks-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacers-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-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","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=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}