{"id":3862,"date":"2009-03-18T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/magic-bucks-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:01:00","slug":"magic-bucks-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/magic-bucks-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Bucks Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at Bradley Center will be treated to a game between the Orlando Magic and the Milwaukee Bucks when they take their seats on Wednesday. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 5&#189;-point favorites versus the Bucks, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Rafer Alston led Orlando with 23 points and five steals in its 97-93 loss to Cleveland on Tuesday night. <br \/>Cleveland couldn&#39;t cover as 6-point home favorites as the game played under the 190-point total posted by sportsbooks. <br \/>The Bucks defeated Boston 86-77 as a 6-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (198). <br \/>Charlie Villanueva scored a team-high 19 points for Milwaukee and Richard Jefferson added 17 points in the loss. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Orlando: 49-18 SU, 43-23-1 ATS <br \/>Milwaukee: 31-38 SU, 36-31-2 ATS <br \/>Orlando most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing New York are 6-4<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 9-1<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 1-9<br \/>Before playing Portland are 2-8<br \/>After playing Boston are 2-8<br \/>After a win are 3-7<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Orlando is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Milwaukee<br \/>Orlando is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Orlando&#39;s last 6 games when playing Milwaukee<br \/>Orlando is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Milwaukee<br \/>Milwaukee is 18-3 SU in its last 21 games when playing at home against Orlando<br \/>Milwaukee is 15-4-2 ATS in its last 21 games when playing at home against Orlando<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 14 of Milwaukee&#39;s last 20 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Milwaukee&#39;s last 9 games <br \/>Next up:<br \/>Orlando home to New York, Saturday, March 21<br \/>Milwaukee home to Portland, Saturday, March 21<\/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 fans at Bradley Center will be treated to a game between the Orlando Magic and the Milwaukee Bucks when they take their seats on Wednesday. Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 5&#189;-point favorites versus the Bucks, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. Rafer Alston led Orlando with 23 points and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/magic-bucks-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magic-Bucks 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-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","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=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}