{"id":3891,"date":"2009-03-19T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/trail-blazers-cavaliers-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T10:51:00","slug":"trail-blazers-cavaliers-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/trail-blazers-cavaliers-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers-Cavaliers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at Quicken Loans Arena will be treated to a game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Cleveland Cavaliers when they take their seats on Thursday. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 9&#189;-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Trail Blazers got out to a comfortable lead early on Wednesday, as they rode to a 95-85 win over the Pacers. That game&#39;s 180 points went UNDER the game&#39;s posted total of 203. <br \/>Brandon Roy led the way with 20 points, six rebounds and six assists. Steve Blake dished out eight assists in the victory. <br \/>LeBron James had 43 points, 12 rebounds, eight assists, and four steals to lift the Cavaliers past the Magic 97-93 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 \/>Current streak:<br \/>Portland has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Cleveland has won 6 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Portland: 43-25 SU, 35-33 ATS <br \/>Cleveland: 54-13 SU, 41-26 ATS <br \/>Portland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Milwaukee are 3-7<br \/>After playing Indiana are 2-8<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Atlanta are 5-5<br \/>After playing Orlando are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Portland is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Portland&#39;s last 6 games when playing on the road against Cleveland<br \/>Portland is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games on the road<br \/>Portland is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland&#39;s last 5 games at home<br \/>Cleveland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Portland<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Portland at Milwaukee, Saturday, March 21<br \/>Cleveland home to Atlanta, 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 Quicken Loans Arena will be treated to a game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Cleveland Cavaliers when they take their seats on Thursday. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 9&#189;-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Trail Blazers got out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/trail-blazers-cavaliers-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trail Blazers-Cavaliers 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-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}