{"id":3584,"date":"2009-02-24T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/pistons-heat-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T15:54:00","slug":"pistons-heat-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/pistons-heat-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons-Heat 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 Detroit Pistons and the Miami Heat will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at AmericanAirlines 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 Heat listed as 5-point favorites versus the Pistons, 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 Pistons lost to Cleveland 99-78 as a 9-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (180.5). <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>Allen<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Iverson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led <st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> with 14 points and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Walter<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Herrmann<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 13 points in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Heat lost to <st2:Sn><st1:City><st1:place>Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> 122-99 as a 9-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (191). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Dwyane<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Wade<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the Heat with 50 points and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Michael<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Beasley<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> netted 14 points in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 6 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>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 27-27 SU, 20-34 ATS <br \/>Miami: 29-26 SU, 26-28-1 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing New Orleans are 5-5<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Miami most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Atlanta are 5-5<br \/>After playing Orlando are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Detroit is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Miami<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Miami<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Detroit&#8217;s last 16 games when playing Miami<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Detroit&#8217;s last 19 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Miami&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Miami&#8217;s last 16 games when playing Detroit<br \/>Miami is 11-3 ATS in its last 14 games when playing Detroit<br \/>Miami is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing at home against Detroit<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, February 25<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, February 27<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 Detroit Pistons and the Miami Heat will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at AmericanAirlines Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Heat listed as 5-point favorites versus the Pistons, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Pistons lost to Cleveland 99-78 as a 9-point underdog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/pistons-heat-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pistons-Heat 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-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","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=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}