{"id":3568,"date":"2009-02-23T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/hawks-jazz-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T13:31:00","slug":"hawks-jazz-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/hawks-jazz-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks-Jazz Odds 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 Utah Jazz will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at EnergySolutions Arena. <?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 Jazz listed as 7\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 were defeated 108-98 by the Trail Blazers on Friday, as 4.5-point road underdogs. That game&#8217;s 206 points made it OVER the posted total of 192. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Mike<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Bibby<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 27 points and six rebounds in a losing effort. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Jazz jumped out to an early lead and went on to defeat the Hornets 102-88 on Saturday. The Jazz covered the 7.5-point spread, and the combined 190 points fell UNDER the posted total of 199. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Mehmet<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Okur<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led <st1:State><st1:place>Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> with 25 points, seven rebounds and four assists. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Deron<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Williams<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added 20 points and 13 assists. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 4 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>: 32-23 SU, 28-27 ATS <br \/>Utah: 33-23 SU, 30-26 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 Monday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Denver are 3-7<br \/>After playing Portland are 2-8<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Utah most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Minnesota are 8-2<br \/>After playing New Orleans 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 UNDER in 5 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Utah<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 10 games when playing Utah<br \/>Atlanta is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>Utah is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Utah is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Utah is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Atlanta<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Utah&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against 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 <st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, February 25<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, 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 Atlanta Hawks and the Utah Jazz will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at EnergySolutions Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Jazz listed as 7\u00bd-point favorites versus the Hawks, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Hawks were defeated 108-98 by the Trail Blazers on Friday, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/hawks-jazz-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hawks-Jazz Odds 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-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","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=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}