{"id":4008,"date":"2009-03-27T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/celtics-hawks-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:04:00","slug":"celtics-hawks-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/celtics-hawks-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics-Hawks Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Philips Arena. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>The Celtics lost 84-82 to the Magic as a 3.5-point road underdog last time out. That game&#39;s 166 points went UNDER the posted total of 188.5. <br \/>Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 26 points and seven rebounds. <br \/>The Hawks were defeated 102-92 by the Spurs last time out, as 6.5-point favorites at home. The game&#39;s 194 points made it OVER the posted total of 179. <br \/>Joe Johnson collected 30 points in the loss. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Boston: 54-19 SU, 37-36 ATS <br \/>Atlanta: 42-30 SU, 40-31-1 ATS <br \/>Boston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Oklahoma City are 4-6<br \/>After playing Orlando are 7-3<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing LA Lakers are 4-6<br \/>After playing San Antonio are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Boston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Boston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Atlanta<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston&#39;s last 7 games when playing Atlanta<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston&#39;s last 7 games when playing on the road against Atlanta<br \/>Atlanta is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games at home<br \/>Atlanta is 10-1-1 ATS in its last 12 games at home<br \/>Atlanta is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing at home against Boston<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Atlanta&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>Next up:<br \/>Boston home to Oklahoma City, Sunday, March 29<br \/>Atlanta home to LA Lakers, Sunday, March 29<\/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 Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Philips Arena. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Celtics lost 84-82 to the Magic as a 3.5-point road underdog last time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/celtics-hawks-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celtics-Hawks 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-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","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=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}