{"id":4213,"date":"2009-04-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/timberwolves-mavericks-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-13T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T13:00:00","slug":"timberwolves-mavericks-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/timberwolves-mavericks-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves-Mavericks Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at American Airlines Center will be treated to a game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Dallas Mavericks when they take their seats on Monday. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 11&#189;-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Timberwolves were defeated 110-97 by the Suns last time out, as 2-point underdogs. The combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 224. <br \/>Sebastian Telfair shot 8-for-12 from the field with 21 points in a losing effort. <br \/>The Mavericks lost to New Orleans 102-92 as a 4-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (194). <br \/>Dirk Nowitzki led the Mavericks with 29 points and 14 rebounds, while Josh Howard had 15 points. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Minnesota: 24-56 SU, 36-42-2 ATS <br \/>Dallas: 48-32 SU, 39-41 ATS <br \/>Minnesota most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Sacramento are 1-9<br \/>After playing Phoenix are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Dallas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Houston are 8-2<br \/>After playing New Orleans are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Minnesota is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Dallas<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota&#39;s last 6 games <br \/>Minnesota is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Minnesota&#39;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>Dallas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Minnesota<br \/>Dallas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Minnesota<br \/>Dallas is 13-1 SU in its last 14 games at home<br \/>Dallas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Minnesota<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Minnesota home to Sacramento, Wednesday, April 15<br \/>Dallas home to Houston, Wednesday, April 15<\/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 fans at American Airlines Center will be treated to a game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Dallas Mavericks when they take their seats on Monday. Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 11&#189;-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Timberwolves were defeated 110-97 by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/timberwolves-mavericks-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Timberwolves-Mavericks 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-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","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=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}