{"id":3595,"date":"2009-02-26T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/cavaliers-rockets-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T12:45:00","slug":"cavaliers-rockets-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/cavaliers-rockets-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers-Rockets Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Houston Rockets will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Toyota<\/st2:PlaceName> Center<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Daniel<\/st1:GivenName> Gibson<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> dropped 19 points off the bench, as the Cavaliers got past the Grizzlies 94-79 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> cashed as 14.5-point home favorites as the game played under the 188.5-point total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ron<\/st1:GivenName> Artest<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> dropped 21 points to lift the Rockets over the Trail Blazers 98-94 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> couldn’t cover as 4.5-point home favorites as the game played under the 192.5-point total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Cleveland<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 5 straight games.
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 44-11 SU, 36-19 ATS
Houston: 36-21 SU, 26-30-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing San Antonio are 5-5
After playing Memphis are 5-5
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Chicago are 4-6
After playing Portland are 8-2
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Houston
Cleveland is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Houston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Houston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Houston is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing at home against Cleveland
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Cleveland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at San Antonio<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Friday, February 27
Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Saturday, February 28<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Houston Rockets will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Toyota Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Daniel Gibson dropped 19 points off the bench, as the … Continue reading Cavaliers-Rockets Lines 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-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","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=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}