{"id":3866,"date":"2009-03-18T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/pistons-rockets-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:21:00","slug":"pistons-rockets-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/pistons-rockets-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons-Rockets Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Pistons and the Houston Rockets will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Toyota Center. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>Tayshaun Prince led the way for Detroit with 28 points and seven boards in its 103-101 loss to Dallas on Tuesday night. <br \/>Dallas couldn&#39;t cover as 6-point home favorites as the teams played over the 188.5-point total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Ron Artest scored 18 points to lead the Rockets past the Hornets 95-84 on Monday night. <br \/>Houston cashed as 3.5-point road underdogs as the game played under the 182.5-point total listed by sportsbooks. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Detroit has lost 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Detroit: 33-33 SU, 28-38 ATS <br \/>Houston: 44-25 SU, 33-35-1 ATS <br \/>Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing LA Clippers are 7-3<br \/>After playing Dallas are 8-2<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Houston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Minnesota are 7-3<br \/>After playing New Orleans are 9-1<br \/>After a win are 6-4<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit&#39;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Houston<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Detroit&#39;s last 11 games when playing Houston<br \/>Detroit is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games when playing Houston<br \/>Detroit is 10-4-1 ATS in its last 15 games when playing Houston<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 5 games when playing at home against Detroit<br \/>Houston is 12-2 SU in its last 14 games at home<br \/>Houston is 11-3 SU in its last 14 games when playing at home against Detroit<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Detroit home to LA Clippers, Friday, March 20<br \/>Houston home to Minnesota, 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 Detroit Pistons and the Houston Rockets will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Toyota Center. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Tayshaun Prince led the way for Detroit with 28 points and seven boards in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/pistons-rockets-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pistons-Rockets 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-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","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=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}