{"id":3319,"date":"2009-01-15T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/trail-blazers-nets-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T13:03:00","slug":"trail-blazers-nets-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/trail-blazers-nets-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers-Nets Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Portland Trail Blazers and the New Jersey Nets will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Izod<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Trail Blazers got pounded 100-79 by the 76ers on Wednesday, as 2-point favorites on the road. That game’s 179 points went UNDER the posted total of 193. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brandon<\/st2:GivenName> Roy<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 27 points with five rebounds and six assists in a losing effort. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics extended their win streak to three games with a 118-86 victory over the Nets on Wednesday. The Celtics covered the 10-point spread, and the combined score made it OVER the posted total of 189. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brook<\/st2:GivenName> Lopez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 13 points and eight rebounds for the Nets. Devin<\/st2:GivenName> Harris<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had a team-high 17 points in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 23-15 SU, 18-20 ATS
New Jersey: 19-20 SU, 21-18 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Portland most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Charlotte are 1-7
After playing Philadelphia are 2-8
After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n

New Jersey most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing Boston are 7-3
After playing Boston are 4-6
After a loss are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Portland’s last 5 games when playing on the road against New Jersey
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Portland’s last 11 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Portland’s last 9 games when playing New Jersey
Portland is 8-3 ATS in its last 11 games when playing New Jersey
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New Jersey’s last 5 games when playing at home against Portland
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New Jersey’s last 6 games at home
New Jersey is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of New Jersey’s last 9 games when playing Portland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Charlotte<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:GivenName>, Saturday, January 17
New Jersey<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, January 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers and the New Jersey Nets will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Izod Center. Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Trail Blazers got pounded 100-79 by the 76ers on Wednesday, as 2-point favorites … Continue reading Trail Blazers-Nets Odds 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-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","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=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}