{"id":3013,"date":"2008-12-13T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/thunder-mavericks-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:56:00","slug":"thunder-mavericks-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/thunder-mavericks-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder-Mavericks Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Dallas Mavericks will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at American<\/st1:PlaceName> Airlines<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 12\u00bd-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Thunder blew a fourth quarter lead and lost 108-102 last time out, as 2-point underdogs. The combined 210 points made it OVER the posted total of 201. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kevin Durant tossed in a game-high 28 points in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mavericks pulled ahead late in the game and earned a 95-90 victory over the Bobcats on Thursday. The Mavericks failed to cover the 13.5-point spread, while the 185 points fell UNDER the posted total of 192. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dirk Nowitzki led the Mavericks with 23 points and 13 rebounds for a double-double. Jason Terry chipped in with a team-high 26 points in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oklahoma City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oklahoma City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 2-21 SU, 12-11 ATS
Dallas: 12-9 SU, 9-12 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oklahoma City most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing San Antonio are 2-8
After playing Memphis are 1-9
After a loss are 1-9<\/p>\n

Dallas most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Denver are 7-3
After playing Charlotte are 8-1
After a win are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Oklahoma City is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Oklahoma City’s last 10 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oklahoma City’s last 5 games when playing Dallas
The total has gone OVER in 16 of Oklahoma City’s last 20 games when playing on the road against Dallas
Dallas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Oklahoma City
Dallas is 13-1 SU in its last 14 games when playing Oklahoma City
Dallas is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
Dallas is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oklahoma City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 14
Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, December 15<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Dallas Mavericks will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at American Airlines Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 12\u00bd-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Thunder blew a fourth quarter lead and … Continue reading Thunder-Mavericks 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-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","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=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}