{"id":3199,"date":"2009-01-02T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/bulls-cavaliers-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T15:17:00","slug":"bulls-cavaliers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/bulls-cavaliers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls-Cavaliers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago Bulls and the Cleveland Cavaliers will meet on the court at Quicken Loans Arena on Friday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 12\u00bd-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bulls were crushed 113-94 by the Magic on Wednesday, as 6-point underdogs at home. The combined score made it OVER the posted total of 202. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Joakim Noah had a double-double with 19 points and 11 boards in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cavaliers were upset 104-95 by the Heat last time out, as 5.5-point favorites on the road. The 199 points made it OVER the posted total of 182.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
LeBron James dropped a game-high 38 points and Delonte West had 20 in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 14-18 SU, 15-17 ATS
Cleveland: 26-5 SU, 22-9 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Minnesota are 5-5
After playing Orlando are 8-2
After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 9-1
Before playing Washington are 6-4
After playing Miami are 8-2
After a loss are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Chicago’s last 10 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Chicago’s last 9 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Cleveland is 17-2 SU in its last 19 games
Cleveland is 10-2 ATS in its last 12 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Cleveland’s last 5 games when playing Chicago<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, January 3
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, January 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Chicago Bulls and the Cleveland Cavaliers will meet on the court at Quicken Loans Arena on Friday in a battle of division rivals. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 12\u00bd-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Bulls were crushed 113-94 by the Magic on Wednesday, … Continue reading Bulls-Cavaliers 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-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","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=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}