{"id":4263,"date":"2009-04-19T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/hornets-nuggets-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T12:57:00","slug":"hornets-nuggets-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/hornets-nuggets-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets-Nuggets Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New Orleans Hornets and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Pepsi<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 6-point favorites versus the Hornets, while the game’s total is sitting at 194. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David<\/st2:GivenName> West<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had a team-high 34 points in the Hornets’ 105-98 overtime loss to the Spurs on Wednesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Spurs failed to cover the 9-point spread at home in that contest, while the combined score went OVER the night’s posted total (176). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nuggets were pounded 104-76 by the Trail Blazers last time out, as 7.5-point underdogs. The combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 199. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nene Hilario had 10 points and nine rebounds in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 49-33 SU, 35-45-2 ATS
Denver: 54-28 SU, 45-36-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New Orleans most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing Denver are 8-2
After playing San Antonio are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Denver most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 6-4
Before playing New Orleans are 6-4
After playing Portland are 6-4
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of New Orleans’s last 5 games on the road
New Orleans is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Denver
The total has gone UNDER in 14 of New Orleans’s last 19 games
New Orleans is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Denver
Denver is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Denver is 14-3 SU in its last 17 games
Denver is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Denver’s last 12 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, April 22
Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, April 22<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New Orleans Hornets and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Pepsi Center in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 6-point favorites versus the Hornets, while the game’s total is sitting at 194. David West had … Continue reading Hornets-Nuggets 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-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","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=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}