{"id":4007,"date":"2009-03-27T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/bucks-magic-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:02:00","slug":"bucks-magic-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/bucks-magic-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks-Magic Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Amway Arena. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 12-point favorites versus the Bucks, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Bucks were defeated 115-106 by the Raptors last time out, as 4-point underdogs on the road. That game&#39;s combined score made it OVER the posted total of 201. <br \/>Richard Jefferson had 22 points for the Bucks, and Charlie Bell added 20 in the loss. <br \/>The Magic were outplayed in the fourth quarter, but managed to hang on and defeat the Celtics 84-82 on Wednesday. The Magic failed to cover the 3.5-point spread, and the 166 points went UNDER the posted total of 188.5. <br \/>Dwight Howard had 24 points with 21 rebounds for a double-double in leading the way. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Milwaukee has lost 3 straight games.<br \/>Orlando has won 4 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Milwaukee: 31-41 SU, 36-34-2 ATS <br \/>Orlando: 53-18 SU, 44-26-1 ATS <br \/>Milwaukee most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Miami are 7-3<br \/>After playing Toronto are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Orlando most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Miami are 7-3<br \/>After playing Boston are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Milwaukee&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Milwaukee&#39;s last 5 games when playing Orlando<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Milwaukee&#39;s last 9 games on the road<br \/>Milwaukee is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Orlando<br \/>Orlando is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Orlando&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>Orlando is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Milwaukee<br \/>Orlando is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games <br \/>Next up:<br \/>Milwaukee at Miami, Saturday, March 28<br \/>Orlando at Miami, Monday, March 30<\/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 Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Amway Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 12-point favorites versus the Bucks, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Bucks were defeated 115-106 by the Raptors last time out, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/bucks-magic-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bucks-Magic 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-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}