{"id":3565,"date":"2009-02-23T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/pacers-knicks-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T08:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T13:26:00","slug":"pacers-knicks-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/pacers-knicks-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers-Knicks 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 Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:place><st2:PlaceName>Madison<\/st2:PlaceName> <st2:PlaceName>Square<\/st2:PlaceName> <st2:PlaceType>Garden<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2: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 Knicks listed as 6-point favorites versus the Pacers, 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 Pacers defeated Chicago 98-91 as a 2-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (216.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Troy Murphy scored 27 points to go along with 14 rebounds for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:Sn><st2:State><st2:place>Indiana<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>, while <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>T.J.<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Ford<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> added 19 points in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Knicks lost to <st2:City><st2:place>Toronto<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> 111-100 as a 3.5-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (215.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Al<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Harrington<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored a game-high 31 points for the Knicks and <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>David<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Lee<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had 17 points and 15 rebounds in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st2:State><st2:place><st1:Sn>Indiana<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:State> 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:Sn><st2:State><st2:place>Indiana<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>: 24-34 SU, 30-26-2 ATS <br \/>New York: 23-32 SU, 32-23 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Indiana most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Memphis are 4-6<br \/>After playing Chicago are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>New York most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Orlando are 1-9<br \/>After playing Toronto are 3-7<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 \/>Indiana is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing on the road against New York<br \/>Indiana is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against New York<br \/>Indiana is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing New York<br \/>Indiana is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing New York<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of New York&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 10 of New York&#8217;s last 11 games <br \/>New York is 8-2 ATS in its last 10 games at home<br \/>New York is 12-4 ATS in its last 16 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st2:State><st2:place><st1:Sn>Indiana<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:State> home to <st2:City><st2:place>Memphis<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Wednesday, February 25<br \/><st2:State><st2:place>New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> home to <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Wednesday, February 25<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/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 Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Madison Square Garden. Oddsmakers currently have the Knicks listed as 6-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Pacers defeated Chicago 98-91 as a 2-point underdog on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/pacers-knicks-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacers-Knicks 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-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","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=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}