{"id":4245,"date":"2009-04-18T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/bulls-celtics-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T12:54:00","slug":"bulls-celtics-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/bulls-celtics-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls-Celtics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago Bulls and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bulls were defeated 109-98 by the Raptors in their regular-season finale last time out. The Bulls were 10-point underdogs in that game, while the 207 points fell UNDER the posted total of 214.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Derrick<\/st1:GivenName> Rose<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> collected 20 points with six rebounds and 11 assists. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Glen<\/st1:GivenName> Davis<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored 21 points off the bench on Wednesday night as the Celtics picked up a 115-107 win over the Wizards in their regular-season finale. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics managed to cover the 4.5-point spread at home in that contest, while the combined score went OVER the day’s posted total (190.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 41-41 SU, 42-39-1 ATS
Boston: 62-20 SU, 43-39 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Boston are 10-0
After playing Toronto are 4-6
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 8-2
Before playing Chicago are 6-4
After playing Washington are 6-4
After a win are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Chicago is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chicago’s last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Boston
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston’s last 5 games at home
Boston is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
Boston is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Chicago<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Monday, April 20
Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Monday, April 20<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Chicago Bulls and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. … Continue reading Bulls-Celtics Lines Preview<\/span> →<\/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-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","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=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}