{"id":3200,"date":"2009-01-02T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/pacers-knicks-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T15:20:00","slug":"pacers-knicks-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/pacers-knicks-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers-Knicks Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Madison<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Square<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Garden<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Knicks listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Pacers were defeatd 110-104 by the Hawks last time out, as 1-point favorites at home. The 214 points made it OVER the posted total of 206. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Danny Granger led the Pacers with 25 points and seven rebounds, while Jarrett Jack had 22 in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Knicks got off to an early lead and held on for a 93-89 victory over the Bobcats on Tuesday, as 4.5-point road underdogs. The 182 points fell UNDER the posted total of 206. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Wilson Chandler led the Knicks with 19 points and seven rebounds, while Al Harrington had 16 points off the bench. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 4 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 10-21 SU, 15-15-1 ATS <br \/>New York: 12-18 SU, 16-14 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Indiana most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Sacramento are 4-6<br \/>After playing Atlanta are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n<p>New York most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 1-9<br \/>Before playing Boston are 6-4<br \/>After playing Charlotte are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 9 of Indiana&#8217;s last 10 games <br \/>Indiana is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing New York<br \/>Indiana is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing New York<br \/>Indiana is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against New York<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of New York&#8217;s last 7 games when playing Indiana<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of New York&#8217;s last 10 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 9 of New York&#8217;s last 13 games when playing at home against Indiana<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of New York&#8217;s last 6 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Sacramento<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, January 3<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, January 4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Madison Square Garden. Oddsmakers currently have the Knicks listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Pacers were defeatd 110-104 by the Hawks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/pacers-knicks-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacers-Knicks Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}