{"id":3992,"date":"2009-03-26T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/suns-trail-blazers-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:33:00","slug":"suns-trail-blazers-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/suns-trail-blazers-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns-Trail Blazers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Rose Garden. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>The Suns were locked into a tight matchup with Utah and came out with a 118-114 victory on Wednesday. The Suns managed to cover the 3-point spread, and the game&#39;s 232 points made it OVER the posted total of 228.5. <br \/>Grant Hill dropped a game-high 26 points to lead the Suns, and Matt Barnes had 21 points to go with nine rebounds in the win. <br \/>LaMarcus Aldridge had 24 points and 12 rebounds for Portland in its 114-108 overtime loss to Philadelphia on Monday night. <br \/>Philadelphia cashed as 7.5-point road underdogs as the teams played over the 190-point total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Phoenix has won 6 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Phoenix: 40-31 SU, 30-40-1 ATS <br \/>Portland: 44-27 SU, 37-34 ATS <br \/>Phoenix most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Utah are 7-3<br \/>After playing Utah are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Portland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 2-8<br \/>Before playing Memphis are 5-5<br \/>After playing Philadelphia are 2-8<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Phoenix is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Phoenix is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games when playing Portland<br \/>Phoenix is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Portland<br \/>Phoenix is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Portland<br \/>Portland is 13-2 SU in its last 15 games at home<br \/>Portland is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Portland&#39;s last 7 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Portland&#39;s last 6 games when playing Phoenix<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Phoenix at Utah, Saturday, March 28<br \/>Portland home to Memphis, 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 Phoenix Suns and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Rose Garden. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Suns were locked into a tight matchup with Utah and came out with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/suns-trail-blazers-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suns-Trail Blazers 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-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","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=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}