{"id":3808,"date":"2009-03-16T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/rockets-hornets-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:07:00","slug":"rockets-hornets-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/rockets-hornets-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets-Hornets Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets and the New Orleans Hornets will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at New Orleans Arena. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Hornets listed as 4-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Rockets couldn&#39;t stop Tony Parker, losing 88-85 to the Spurs at the Toyota Center Saturday. <br \/>San Antonio covered as a 2.5-point road underdog while the final score played under the 182-point total. <br \/>The Hornets were swept away in the Windy City, losing 97-79 to the Bulls at the United Center Saturday night. <br \/>Chicago covered as a 2-point home underdog while the final score played under the 193.5-point total. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Houston: 43-25 SU, 32-35-1 ATS <br \/>New Orleans: 41-24 SU, 28-35-2 ATS <br \/>Houston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Detroit are 6-4<br \/>After playing San Antonio are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 9-1<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Minnesota are 6-4<br \/>After playing Chicago are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Houston&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Houston&#39;s last 6 games when playing New Orleans<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston&#39;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>Houston is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>New Orleans is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New Orleans&#39;s last 6 games when playing Houston<br \/>New Orleans is 9-2 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>New Orleans is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Houston<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Houston home to Detroit, Wednesday, March 18<br \/>New Orleans home to Minnesota, Wednesday, March 18<\/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 Houston Rockets and the New Orleans Hornets will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at New Orleans Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Hornets listed as 4-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Rockets couldn&#39;t stop Tony Parker, losing 88-85 to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/rockets-hornets-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockets-Hornets 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-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","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=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}