{"id":3114,"date":"2008-12-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/trail-blazers-nuggets-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-22T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:00:00","slug":"trail-blazers-nuggets-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/trail-blazers-nuggets-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers-Nuggets Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Portland Trail Blazers and the Denver Nuggets will meet on the court at Pepsi<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Monday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brandon Roy tossed in 52 points in leading the Trail Blazers to a 124-119 victory over the Suns on Thursday. The Trail Blazers managed to cover the 4.5-point spread, while the combined score sailed OVER the posted total of 204. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Roy<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> shot 14-for-27 with five rebounds and six assists, while Steve Blake added 22 points in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nuggets were defeated 108-101 by the Suns last time out, as 6-point road underdogs. The 209 points fell UNDER the posted total of 222. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nene Hilario netted 20 points with 15 rebounds for a double-double in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.
Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 17-10 SU, 13-14 ATS
Denver: 17-10 SU, 15-11-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Portland most recently:
When playing on Monday are 4-6
Before playing Denver are 8-2
After playing Phoenix are 6-4
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Denver most recently:
When playing on Monday are 6-4
Before playing Portland are 5-5
After playing Phoenix are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Portland’s last 7 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Portland’s last 11 games when playing on the road against Denver
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Portland’s last 14 games
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Portland’s last 10 games when playing Denver
Denver is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Portland
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Denver’s last 11 games when playing at home against Portland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Denver’s last 5 games
Denver is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Portland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, December 23
Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, December 23<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers and the Denver Nuggets will meet on the court at Pepsi Center on Monday in a battle of division rivals. Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Brandon Roy tossed in 52 points in leading the … Continue reading Trail Blazers-Nuggets 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-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","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=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}