{"id":3604,"date":"2009-02-27T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/cavaliers-spurs-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T18:37:00","slug":"cavaliers-spurs-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/cavaliers-spurs-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers-Spurs 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 Cleveland Cavaliers and the San Antonio Spurs will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>AT&amp;T<\/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\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Cavaliers fell 93-74 to the Rockets last time out, as 4-point underdogs on the road. That game&#8217;s 167 points fell UNDER the posted total of 185.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Mo Williams and <st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>LeBron<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>James<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> each had 21 points in a losing effort. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Tony<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Parker<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> dropped a game-high 39 points in leading the Spurs to a convincing 99-84 victory over the Trail Blazers on Wednesday. The Spurs covered the slight 1.5-point spread, and the 183 points made it OVER the posted total of 179. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Matt<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Bonner<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed in 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds for the Spurs, and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Kurt<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Thomas<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 10 rebounds in that win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 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 \/><st2:Sn><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>: 44-12 SU, 36-20 ATS <br \/>San Antonio: 39-17 SU, 29-25-2 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 9-1<br \/>Before playing Atlanta are 5-5<br \/>After playing Houston are 9-1<br \/>After a loss are 9-1<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Portland are 7-3<br \/>After playing Portland are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Cleveland is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against San Antonio<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 8 games when playing San Antonio<br \/>Cleveland is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games on the road<br \/>San Antonio is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>San Antonio is 14-2 SU in its last 16 games when playing at home against Cleveland<br \/>San Antonio is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>San Antonio is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place><st2:Sn>Cleveland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, March 1<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, March 1<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 Cleveland Cavaliers and the San Antonio Spurs will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at AT&amp;T Center. Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Cavaliers fell 93-74 to the Rockets last time out, as 4-point underdogs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/cavaliers-spurs-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cavaliers-Spurs 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-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","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=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}