{"id":4070,"date":"2009-04-05T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/trail-blazers-rockets-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T13:19:00","slug":"trail-blazers-rockets-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/trail-blazers-rockets-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers-Rockets Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Toyota Center. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Rockets listed as 4-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Trail Blazers allowed just 37 points in the second half, as they cruised to a 107-72 victory over the Thunder on Friday. The Trail Blazers easily covered the 5-point spread, while the combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 191. <br \/>LaMarcus Aldridge led the way with a game-high 35 points, while hauling down 18 rebounds to complete a double-double. <br \/>The Rockets fell 93-81 to the Lakers last time out, as 5.5-point road underdogs. That game&#39;s 174 points fell UNDER the night&#39;s posted total of 196. <br \/>Yao Ming netted 16 points and hauled down 10 rebounds for a double-double in the loss. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Portland has won 4 straight games.<br \/>Houston has lost 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Portland: 48-27 SU, 41-34 ATS <br \/>Houston: 48-28 SU, 36-39-1 ATS <br \/>Portland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Memphis are 5-5<br \/>After playing Oklahoma City are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Houston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Orlando are 5-5<br \/>After playing LA Lakers are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Portland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Portland is 8-1 ATS in its last 9 games <br \/>Portland is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Portland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Houston is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Portland<br \/>Houston is 15-2 SU in its last 17 games at home<br \/>Houston is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Portland<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston&#39;s last 5 games when playing at home against Portland<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Portland at Memphis, Tuesday, April 7<br \/>Houston home to Orlando, Tuesday, April 7<\/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 Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Toyota Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Rockets listed as 4-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Trail Blazers allowed just 37 points in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/trail-blazers-rockets-odds-preview-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trail Blazers-Rockets Odds 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-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","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=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}