{"id":3372,"date":"2009-01-20T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/hawks-bulls-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T12:45:00","slug":"hawks-bulls-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/hawks-bulls-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks-Bulls 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 Chicago Bulls will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>United<\/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\">Oddsmakers currently have the Bulls listed as 3\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 scored 25 points in the fourth quarter to come back and defeat the struggling Raptors 87-84 on Monday. The Hawks failed to cover the 7.5-point spread, and the 171 points went UNDER the posted total of 196. <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>Josh<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Smith<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed in 22 points to go with 14 rebounds in a double-double performance. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Joe<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Johnson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added a game-high 28 points in that win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Bulls fell 102-98 to the Knicks last time out, as 2-point road underdogs. That game&#8217;s 200 points went UNDER the posted total of 208.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Luol<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Deng<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> netted 20 points with 10 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 \/><st2:Sn><st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 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>: 24-16 SU, 21-19 ATS <br \/>Chicago: 18-24 SU, 18-24 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Atlanta most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 0-10<br \/>Before playing Milwaukee are 1-9<br \/>After playing Toronto are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Toronto are 8-2<br \/>After playing New York are 5-5<br \/>After a loss 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 \/>Atlanta is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Chicago<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Chicago<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Chicago<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 10 games on the road<br \/>Chicago is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing at home against Atlanta<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Atlanta<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chicago&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Atlanta<br \/>Chicago is 13-4 SU in its last 17 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> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, January 23<br \/><st1:City><st1:place><st2:Sn>Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, January 23<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\" class=MsoBodyText><b><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/b><\/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 Chicago Bulls will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at United Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Bulls listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Hawks, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Hawks scored 25 points in the fourth quarter to come back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/hawks-bulls-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hawks-Bulls 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-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","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=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}