{"id":3718,"date":"2009-03-10T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/mavericks-suns-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T11:43:00","slug":"mavericks-suns-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/mavericks-suns-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks-Suns Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks and the Phoenix Suns will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at US Airways Center. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>Dirk Nowitzki dropped a game-high 34 points and grabbed nine boards with seven assists to lead the Mavericks to a 119-103 victory over the Wizards on Saturday. The Mavericks covered the 12-point spread, and the 222 points sailed OVER the posted total of 198.5. <br \/>Jason Terry tossed in 33 points for the Mavericks, and Antoine Wright added 16 in that win. <br \/>The Suns lost to San Antonio 103-98 as a 4.5-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (217.5). <br \/>Steve Nash led Phoenix with 23 points and 11 assists and Leandro Barbosa netted 20 points in the loss. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Phoenix has lost 4 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Dallas: 38-25 SU, 30-33 ATS <br \/>Phoenix: 34-29 SU, 25-37-1 ATS <br \/>Dallas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Portland are 8-2<br \/>After playing Washington are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Cleveland are 7-3<br \/>After playing San Antonio are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Dallas&#39;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Dallas&#39;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Phoenix<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Dallas&#39;s last 7 games <br \/>Dallas is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Phoenix is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games at home<br \/>Phoenix is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Phoenix&#39;s last 5 games when playing at home against Dallas<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Phoenix&#39;s last 7 games when playing Dallas<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Dallas at Portland, Wednesday, March 11<br \/>Phoenix home to Cleveland, Thursday, March 12<\/p>\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 Phoenix Suns will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at US Airways Center. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Dirk Nowitzki dropped a game-high 34 points and grabbed nine boards with seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/mavericks-suns-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mavericks-Suns 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-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","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=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}