{"id":4246,"date":"2009-04-18T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pistons-cavaliers-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T12:55:00","slug":"pistons-cavaliers-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pistons-cavaliers-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons-Cavaliers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The division rival Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers are set to renew hostilities on Saturday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 12\u00bd-point favorites versus the Pistons, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pistons lost 102-96 to the Heat in their regular-season finale last time out, as 2-point underdogs. That game’s 198 points made it OVER the posted total of 181. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kwame<\/st2:GivenName> Brown<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 17 points and 13 rebounds for a double-double in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cavaliers dropped their season-finale 111-110 in overtime to the 76ers. The 76ers failed to cover the 3-point spread, and the combined score sailed OVER the posted total of 185. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Daniel<\/st2:GivenName> Gibson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> dropped 28 points and dished out seven assists in a losing effort. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 39-43 SU, 34-48 ATS
Cleveland: 66-16 SU, 49-33 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Detroit most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Cleveland are 4-6
After playing Miami are 7-3
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Detroit are 8-2
After playing Philadelphia are 6-4
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit’s last 5 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 15 of Detroit’s last 17 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Detroit’s last 6 games
Detroit is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland’s last 5 games when playing Detroit
Cleveland is 16-1 SU in its last 17 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 15 of Cleveland’s last 17 games when playing at home against Detroit
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Cleveland’s last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Tuesday, April 21
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> home to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, April 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The division rival Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers are set to renew hostilities on Saturday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 12\u00bd-point favorites versus the Pistons, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Pistons lost … Continue reading Pistons-Cavaliers 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-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","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=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}