{"id":4075,"date":"2009-04-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pacers-thunder-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T15:30:00","slug":"pacers-thunder-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pacers-thunder-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers-Thunder Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Ford Center. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Thunder listed as 2-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 213. <br \/>The Pacers lost a hard-fought 126-121 game to the Spurs last time out, as 4.5-point underdogs. The combined 247 points sailed OVER the posted total of 200.5. <br \/>Danny Granger tossed in a game-high 35 points to lead the Pacers. <br \/>The Thunder were pounded 107-72 by the Trail Blazers last time out, as 5-point underdogs. That game&#39;s combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 191. <br \/>Kevin Durant had 13 points for the Thunder, and Jeff Green added 12 in a losing effort. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Indiana: 32-44 SU, 38-35-3 ATS <br \/>Oklahoma City: 21-54 SU, 42-32-1 ATS <br \/>Indiana most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Toronto are 5-5<br \/>After playing San Antonio are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing San Antonio are 1-9<br \/>After playing Portland are 2-8<br \/>After a loss are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 10 of Indiana&#39;s last 11 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Indiana&#39;s last 6 games when playing on the road against Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Indiana&#39;s last 11 games <br \/>Indiana is 7-3 ATS in its last 10 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 10 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 11 games when playing Indiana<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 6 games when playing at home against Indiana<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 10 games <br \/>Next up:<br \/>Indiana home to Toronto, Wednesday, April 8<br \/>Oklahoma City home to San Antonio, 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 Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Ford Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Thunder listed as 2-point favorites versus the Pacers, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 213. The Pacers lost a hard-fought 126-121 game to the Spurs last time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pacers-thunder-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacers-Thunder 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-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","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=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}