{"id":3860,"date":"2009-03-18T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/heat-celtics-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T05:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T10:46:00","slug":"heat-celtics-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/heat-celtics-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-Celtics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at TD Banknorth Garden. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>The Heat lost to Philadelphia 85-77 as a 7.5-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (196). <br \/>Jermaine O&#39;Neal led Miami with 20 points, while Dwyane Wade was held to 18 points on 8-of-21 shooting. <br \/>Paul Pierce had 37 points and seven boards for Boston in its 127-121 loss to Chicago on Tuesday night. <br \/>Chicago cashed as 2-point home underdogs as the game played over the 195.5-point total set by oddsmakers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Boston has lost 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Miami: 36-30 SU, 31-34-1 ATS <br \/>Boston: 50-18 SU, 34-34 ATS <br \/>Miami most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing New Jersey are 3-7<br \/>After playing Philadelphia are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Boston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing San Antonio are 6-4<br \/>After playing Chicago are 7-3<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Miami&#39;s last 8 games when playing on the road against Boston<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of Miami&#39;s last 9 games <br \/>Miami is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Miami&#39;s last 7 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Boston&#39;s last 8 games when playing at home against Miami<br \/>Boston is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Miami<br \/>Boston is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Miami<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 8 of Boston&#39;s last 10 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Miami at New Jersey, Friday, March 20<br \/>Boston at San Antonio, Friday, March 20<\/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 Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at TD Banknorth Garden. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Heat lost to Philadelphia 85-77 as a 7.5-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/heat-celtics-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heat-Celtics 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-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","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=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}