{"id":3641,"date":"2009-03-02T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/mavericks-thunder-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:34:00","slug":"mavericks-thunder-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/mavericks-thunder-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks-Thunder 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 Dallas Mavericks and the Oklahoma City Thunder 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>Ford<\/st2:PlaceName> <st2:PlaceType>Center<\/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 Mavericks listed as 5-point favorites versus the Thunder, 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 Mavericks defeated <st2:City><st2:place>Toronto<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> 109-98 as a 6-point favorite on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (205.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Dirk Nowitzki scored 24 points to go along with 10 rebounds for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Dallas<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, while <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Josh<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Howard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> added 16 points in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Thunder defeated the Grizzlies 99-92 at the FedExForum Saturday. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">OKC pushed with the 7-point spread while the final score under the 198-point total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place><st1:Sn>Dallas<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 3 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:City><st2:place>Dallas<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 36-23 SU, 28-31 ATS <br \/>Oklahoma City: 14-45 SU, 35-24 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Dallas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing San Antonio are 7-3<br \/>After playing Toronto are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Washington are 4-6<br \/>After playing Memphis are 0-10<br \/>After a win are 3-7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Dallas is 15-1 SU in its last 16 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>Dallas is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Dallas&#8217;s last 8 games when playing on the road against Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Oklahoma City&#8217;s last 8 games when playing at home against Dallas<br \/>Oklahoma City is 4-0-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Dallas<br \/>Oklahoma City is 13-4 ATS in its last 17 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oklahoma City&#8217;s last 7 games when playing Dallas<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Dallas<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> home to <st2:City><st2:place>San Antonio<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Wednesday, March 4<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Oklahoma City<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to <st1:Sn><st2:State><st2:place>Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>, Wednesday, March 4<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 Dallas Mavericks and the Oklahoma City Thunder will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Ford Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 5-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Mavericks defeated Toronto 109-98 as a 6-point favorite on Sunday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/mavericks-thunder-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mavericks-Thunder 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-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}