{"id":3991,"date":"2009-03-26T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/heat-bulls-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:30:00","slug":"heat-bulls-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/heat-bulls-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-Bulls Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at United Center. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>The Heat were defeated 90-88 by the Pacers last time out, as a pick&#39;em. That game&#39;s 178 points went UNDER the posted total of 205. <br \/>Udonis Haslem had 18 points to go with 14 rebounds in a double-double performance. <br \/>Kirk Hinrich had 24 points and eight assists to lead the Bulls past the Pistons 99-91 on Tuesday night. <br \/>Chicago covered as 5-point home favorites as the game played under the 191-point total posted by oddsmakers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Chicago has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Miami: 38-33 SU, 34-36-1 ATS <br \/>Chicago: 34-38 SU, 37-34-1 ATS <br \/>Miami most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Milwaukee are 3-7<br \/>After playing Indiana are 1-9<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Indiana are 4-6<br \/>After playing Detroit are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Miami&#39;s last 5 games when playing Chicago<br \/>Miami is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Chicago<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Miami&#39;s last 7 games when playing on the road against Chicago<br \/>Miami is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Chicago is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games at home<br \/>Chicago is 8-1 ATS in its last 9 games at home<br \/>Chicago is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Chicago is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Miami<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Miami home to Milwaukee, Saturday, March 28<br \/>Chicago home to Indiana, Saturday, March 28<\/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 Chicago Bulls will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at United Center. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Heat were defeated 90-88 by the Pacers last time out, as a pick&#39;em. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/heat-bulls-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heat-Bulls 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-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","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=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}