{"id":4267,"date":"2009-04-20T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/bulls-celtics-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T13:48:00","slug":"bulls-celtics-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/bulls-celtics-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls-Celtics Odds 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 Monday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden in the second game of their first-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Derrick<\/st1:GivenName> Rose<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored 36 points in his first-ever playoff game to lead Chicago<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> to a 105-103 overtime win over Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> on Saturday afternoon. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bulls pulled off the upset as 8.5-point underdogs, while the final score played OVER the day’s posted total of 199. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rajon Rondo scored 29 points to lead the Celtics and Paul<\/st1:GivenName> Pierce<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> finished with 23. <\/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 Monday are 3-7
Before playing Boston are 9-1
After playing Boston are 8-2
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Chicago are 7-3
After playing Chicago are 7-3
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Chicago is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Boston
Chicago is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago’s last 7 games when playing Boston
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston’s last 5 games at home
Boston is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Boston’s last 8 games
Boston is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chicago<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Thursday, April<\/st1:GivenName> 23
Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Thursday, April 23<\/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 Monday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden in the second game of their first-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. … Continue reading Bulls-Celtics 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-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","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=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}