{"id":3140,"date":"2008-12-27T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/raptors-trail-blazers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:10:00","slug":"raptors-trail-blazers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/raptors-trail-blazers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors-Trail Blazers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Toronto Raptors and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Rose Garden. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Trail Blazers listed as 8-point favorites versus the Raptors, while the game’s total is sitting at 192. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jermaine O’Neal tossed in 36 points to lead the Raptors to a 107-101 victory over the Kings on Friday. The Raptors covered the 3-point spread, and the 208 points made it OVER the posted total of 197. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
O’Neal also hauled down nine rebounds for the Raptors, and Jose Calderon added 16 in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brandon Roy had a team-high 22 points in Portland’s 102-94 loss to Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Thursday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Blazers had been listed as 4.5-point home favorites in that contest, while the combined score went OVER the posted total (192). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 12-17 SU, 11-17-1<\/st1:date> ATS
Portland: 18-12 SU, 14-16 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Toronto most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Golden State are 3-7
After playing Sacramento are 4-6
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Portland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Boston are 2-8
After playing Dallas are 4-6
After a loss are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Toronto is 10-2 ATS in its last 12 games when playing on the road against Portland
Toronto is 9-2 ATS in its last 11 games when playing Portland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Toronto’s last 5 games when playing Portland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Toronto’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Portland
Portland is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Toronto
Portland is 13-3 SU in its last 16 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Portland’s last 5 games when playing Toronto
Portland is 14-7 SU in its last 21 games when playing Toronto<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Golden<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Monday, December 29
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, December 30<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Toronto Raptors and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Rose Garden. Oddsmakers currently have the Trail Blazers listed as 8-point favorites versus the Raptors, while the game’s total is sitting at 192. Jermaine O’Neal tossed in 36 points to lead the … Continue reading Raptors-Trail Blazers 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-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","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=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}