{"id":3014,"date":"2008-12-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/nets-bulls-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T14:00:00","slug":"nets-bulls-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/nets-bulls-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets-Bulls Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New Jersey Nets and the Chicago Bulls will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at United<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Bulls listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Nets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nets were crushed in a 101-79 upset at the hands of the Raptors last time out, as 3-point favorites. The game’s 180 points went UNDER the posted total of 206. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Devin Harris had 14 points with five rebounds and five assists in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bulls were defeated 103-96 by the Grizzlies last time out, as 2.5-point favorites. The 199 points fell just UNDER the posted total of 199.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ben Gordon had 26 points for the Bulls, and Luol Deng had 19 in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
New Jersey<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New Jersey<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 11-10 SU, 12-9 ATS
Chicago: 10-12 SU, 10-12 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New Jersey most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Toronto are 4-6
After playing Toronto are 7-3
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Charlotte are 4-6
After playing Memphis are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
New Jersey is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games on the road
New Jersey is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of New Jersey’s last 5 games when playing Chicago
New Jersey is 13-4 SU in its last 17 games when playing Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games when playing New Jersey
Chicago is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
Chicago is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against New Jersey
Chicago is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against New Jersey<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
New Jersey<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, December 15
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Charlotte<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, December 16<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New Jersey Nets and the Chicago Bulls will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at United Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Bulls listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Nets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Nets were crushed in a 101-79 upset at the hands … Continue reading Nets-Bulls 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-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","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=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}