{"id":4248,"date":"2009-04-18T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rockets-trail-blazers-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T12:58:00","slug":"rockets-trail-blazers-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rockets-trail-blazers-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets-Trail Blazers Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Rose<\/st1:GivenName> Garden<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Trail Blazers listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rockets were defeated 95-84 by the Mavericks in their regular-season finale last time out, as a pick’em. The team’s played UNDER the posted total of 190. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Yao Ming tossed in 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds in a losing effort. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Trail Blazers held the Nuggets to just 15 points in the fourth quarter as they cruised to a 104-76 victory in their regular-season finale on Wednesday. The Trail Blazers covered the 7.5-point spread, while the combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 199. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Travis<\/st1:GivenName> Outlaw<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Trail Blazers with 21 points, and Rudy<\/st1:GivenName> Fernanadez<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> added 18 in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 53-29 SU, 40-41-1 ATS
Portland: 54-28 SU, 46-36 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Portland are 6-4
After playing Dallas are 7-3
After a loss are 9-1<\/p>\n

Portland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Houston are 4-6
After playing Denver are 5-5
After a win are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Houston is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Portland
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games when playing Portland
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Houston’s last 12 games on the road
Portland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Portland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Portland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Portland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Portland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Tuesday, April 21
Portland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Tuesday, April 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Rose Garden in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Trail Blazers listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been … Continue reading Rockets-Trail Blazers Odds 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-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","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=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}