{"id":3303,"date":"2009-01-13T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/heat-timberwolves-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:16:00","slug":"heat-timberwolves-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/heat-timberwolves-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-Timberwolves Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Miami Heat and the Minnesota Timberwolves will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Target<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Heat listed as 1\u00bd-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Heat lost to the Lakers 108-105 as an 11-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (203.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dwyane<\/st2:GivenName> Wade<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the Heat with 27 points and nine assists, while Michael<\/st2:GivenName> Beasley<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> netted 23 points. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Timberwolves came back in the fourth quarter and earned a 106-104 victory over the Bucks on Saturday. The Timberwolves failed to cover the 2.5-point spread, while the 210 points made it OVER the posted total of 199.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Sebastian<\/st2:GivenName> Telfair<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> dropped 17 points with three boards and 11 assists for the Timberwolves. Rodney<\/st2:GivenName> Carney<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added a team-high 22 points in that win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 19-17 SU, 16-19-1 ATS
Minnesota: 11-25 SU, 17-18-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Miami most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 6-4
Before playing Milwaukee are 3-7
After playing LA Lakers are 7-3
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 3-7
Before playing Phoenix are 3-7
After playing Milwaukee are 6-4
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Miami’s last 5 games
Miami is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Minnesota
Miami is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Miami’s last 6 games on the road
Minnesota is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Minnesota’s last 5 games at home
Minnesota is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing at home against Miami
Minnesota is 6-0-1 ATS in its last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, January 14
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, January 16<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Miami Heat and the Minnesota Timberwolves will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Target Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Heat listed as 1\u00bd-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Heat lost to the Lakers 108-105 as an 11-point … Continue reading Heat-Timberwolves Lines 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-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}