{"id":3306,"date":"2009-01-13T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/hawks-suns-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:29:00","slug":"hawks-suns-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/hawks-suns-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks-Suns Lines 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 Atlanta Hawks and the Phoenix Suns will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at US Airways Center. <?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 Suns listed as 6\u00bd-point favorites versus the Hawks, 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 Hawks lost to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 109-94 as a 5.5-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (197.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Joe<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Johnson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the Hawks with 25 points and nine assists and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Mike<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Bibby<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 22 points and eight assists in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Suns defeated the Clippers 109-102 as a 9-point favorite on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (202). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:Sn>Amar&#8217;e<\/st2:Sn> Stoudemire scored a game-high 26 points for <st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Jason<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Richardson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Grant<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Hill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> each netted 21 points in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 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>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 22-14 SU, 19-17 ATS <br \/>Phoenix: 21-13 SU, 13-21 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing LA Clippers are 2-8<br \/>After playing <st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p><st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 9-1<br \/>Before playing <st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 5-5<br \/>After playing LA Clippers are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 5-5<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 5 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Phoenix<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 8 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Phoenix<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 7 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Phoenix&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Atlanta<br \/>Phoenix is 12-2 SU in its last 14 games when playing at home against Atlanta<br \/>Phoenix is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Phoenix&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Atlanta<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at LA Clippers, Wednesday, January 14<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, January 15<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 524.25pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/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 Atlanta Hawks and the Phoenix Suns will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at US Airways Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Suns listed as 6\u00bd-point favorites versus the Hawks, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Hawks lost to Philadelphia 109-94 as a 5.5-point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/hawks-suns-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hawks-Suns Lines 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-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}