{"id":4276,"date":"2009-04-21T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rockets-trail-blazers-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:50:00","slug":"rockets-trail-blazers-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rockets-trail-blazers-odds-preview-2\/","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 Tuesday when they battle at Rose<\/st1:GivenName> Garden<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Trail Blazers listed as 5\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rockets drew first blood in their Western Conference first-round playoff series with a dominating 108-81 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday, s 5-point underdogs. The Rockets won the game as a 5-point underdog, while the 189 points made it OVER the posted total of 182. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron<\/st1:GivenName> Brooks<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Rockets with 27 points, four rebounds and seven assists. Brandon<\/st1:GivenName> Roy<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> dropped 21 points in a losing effort. <\/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 Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing Portland are 5-5
After playing Portland are 8-2
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Portland most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 8-2
Before playing Houston are 4-6
After playing Houston are 5-5
After a loss are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston’s last 5 games when playing Portland
Houston is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing Portland
Houston is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
Houston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Portland
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Portland’s last 5 games when playing Houston
Portland is 19-3 SU in its last 22 games at home
Portland is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games at home
Portland is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Portland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Friday, April<\/st1:GivenName> 24
Portland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, April 24<\/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 Tuesday when they battle at Rose Garden. Oddsmakers currently have the Trail Blazers listed as 5\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Rockets drew first blood in their Western … 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-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","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=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}