{"id":4021,"date":"2009-03-28T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/pacers-bulls-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T13:57:00","slug":"pacers-bulls-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/pacers-bulls-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers-Bulls Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers and the Chicago Bulls will meet on the court at United Center on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Bulls listed as 8-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Pacers had 23 points in the final quarter and snuck past the Heat 90-88 on Wednesday, as a pick&#39;em. The combined 178 points went UNDER the posted total of 205. <br \/>Danny Granger led the Pacers with 28 points and four rebounds, while Jeff Foster dished out 16 assists. <br \/>Six players reached double-figures as the Bulls defeated the Heat 106-87 on Thursday. The Bulls covered the 5.5-point spread, while the 193 points went UNDER the posted total of 202. <br \/>John Salmons led the way for the Bulls with 27 points, and Ben Gordon chipped in with 18 points. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Indiana has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Chicago has won 3 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Indiana: 30-42 SU, 37-33-2 ATS <br \/>Chicago: 35-38 SU, 38-34-1 ATS <br \/>Indiana most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Washington are 3-7<br \/>After playing Miami are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Toronto are 7-3<br \/>After playing Miami are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Indiana&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>Indiana is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games on the road<br \/>Indiana is 6-12-1 ATS in its last 19 games when playing Chicago<br \/>Indiana is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Chicago is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games at home<br \/>Chicago is 9-1 ATS in its last 10 games at home<br \/>Chicago is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Chicago is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing at home against Indiana<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Indiana home to Washington, Sunday, March 29<br \/>Chicago at Toronto, 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 Indiana Pacers and the Chicago Bulls will meet on the court at United Center on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. Oddsmakers currently have the Bulls listed as 8-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Pacers had 23 points in the final quarter and snuck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/pacers-bulls-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacers-Bulls 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-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","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=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}