{"id":3225,"date":"2009-01-04T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/pistons-clippers-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T15:31:00","slug":"pistons-clippers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/pistons-clippers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons-Clippers 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 Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Clippers will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>STAPLES<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Center<\/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\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Pistons got all they could handle on Friday, but managed to pull out a 98-92 victory over the Kings. The Pistons failed to cover the 9-point spread, while the 190 points made it OVER the posted total of 188. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Rodney Stuckey scored a game-high 38 points to go with four rebounds and seven assists. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Clippers were defeated 106-98 by the Suns last time out, as 12.5-point underdogs on the road. That game&#8217;s 204 points made it OVER the posted total of 199.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Marcus Camby had 19 points and 23 rebounds for a double-double in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 6 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 6 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 20-11 SU, 14-17 ATS <br \/>Los Angeles: 8-24 SU, 13-19 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 9-1<br \/>Before playing Portland are 8-2<br \/>After playing Sacramento are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Dallas are 3-7<br \/>After playing Phoenix are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Detroit is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Detroit is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing LA Clippers<br \/>Detroit is 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games when playing LA Clippers<br \/>Detroit is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing on the road against LA Clippers<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the LA Clippers last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the LA Clippers last 5 games when playing Detroit<br \/>LA Clippers are 2-4 ATS in their last 6 games <br \/>LA Clippers are 1-4-1 ATS in their last 6 games when playing at home against Detroit<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, January 7<br \/>LA Clippers at <st1:City><st1:place>Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, January 6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><span style=\"TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase\"><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/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 Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Clippers will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at STAPLES Center. Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Pistons got all they could handle on Friday, but managed to pull &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/pistons-clippers-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pistons-Clippers 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-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","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=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}