{"id":3136,"date":"2008-12-27T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/magic-timberwolves-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T16:16:00","slug":"magic-timberwolves-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/magic-timberwolves-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Timberwolves Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Orlando Magic and the Minnesota Timberwolves will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Target<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 9-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hedo Turkoglu tossed in a team-high 20 points on Thursday afternoon to lead the Magic to an 88-68 win over the Hornets. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Magic easily covered the 5-point spread in that contest, while the combined score fell UNDER the day’s posted total (190). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Al Jefferson dropped 21 points with 15 rebounds in a double-double performance on Friday, leading the Timberwolves past the favored Knicks 120-107. The Timberwolves won the game as a 7.5-point underdog, while the 227 points made it OVER the posted total of 215. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rashad McCants had 23 points, and Sebastian Telfair dropped 20 in that victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 6 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 23-6 SU, 19-9-1<\/st1:date> ATS
Minnesota: 5-23 SU, 11-17 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Orlando most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Detroit are 6-4
After playing New Orleans are 4-6
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Memphis are 4-6
After playing New York are 3-7
After a win are 2-8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Orlando is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Orlando is 10-2 SU in its last 12 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Orlando’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Minnesota’s last 6 games when playing at home against Orlando
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Minnesota’s last 8 games when playing Orlando
Minnesota is 1-7 ATS in its last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, December 29
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Memphis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, December 29<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Orlando Magic and the Minnesota Timberwolves will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Target Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 9-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Hedo Turkoglu tossed in a team-high 20 points on Thursday afternoon to … Continue reading Magic-Timberwolves 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-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","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=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}