{"id":4067,"date":"2009-04-05T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/suns-mavericks-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T13:11:00","slug":"suns-mavericks-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/suns-mavericks-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns-Mavericks Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns and the Dallas Mavericks will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at American Airlines Center. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>The Suns exploded in the first quarter and went on to earn a 139-111 victory over the Kings on Friday. The Suns covered the 15-point spread, while the 250 points made it OVER the posted total of 245. <br \/>Steve Nash went for 29 points and dished out nine assists for the Suns. Jason Richardson added 19 points in the win. <br \/>The Mavericks were upset 107-102 to the Grizzlies last time out, as 7.5-point favorites. That game&#39;s 209 points made it OVER the posted total of 196. <br \/>Dirk Nowitzki tossed in a game-high 35 points to go with nine rebounds in the loss. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Phoenix has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Phoenix: 42-34 SU, 33-42-1 ATS <br \/>Dallas: 45-31 SU, 36-40 ATS <br \/>Phoenix most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing New Orleans are 7-3<br \/>After playing Sacramento are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Dallas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Utah are 6-4<br \/>After playing Memphis are 8-2<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Phoenix&#39;s last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Phoenix&#39;s last 5 games when playing Dallas<br \/>Phoenix is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games <br \/>Phoenix is 8-3 ATS in its last 11 games <br \/>Dallas is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games at home<br \/>Dallas is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Phoenix<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Dallas&#39;s last 5 games when playing Phoenix<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Phoenix at New Orleans, Wednesday, April 8<br \/>Dallas home to Utah, Wednesday, April 8<\/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 Dallas Mavericks will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at American Airlines Center. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Suns exploded in the first quarter and went on to earn a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/suns-mavericks-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suns-Mavericks 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-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","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=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}