{"id":4300,"date":"2009-04-24T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/trail-blazers-rockets-odds-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T11:17:00","slug":"trail-blazers-rockets-odds-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/trail-blazers-rockets-odds-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers-Rockets Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Toyota<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rockets listed as 6-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brandon<\/st2:GivenName> Roy<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 42 points and seven rebounds to lift the Trail Blazers over the Rockets 107-103 to knot their Western Conference first round series at one game apiece on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> couldn’t cover as 6-point home favorites as the teams played over the 184-point total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
LaMarcus<\/st2:GivenName> Aldridge<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went for 27 points and 12 boards for the Trail Blazers, who got 11 points off the bench from Rudy<\/st2:GivenName> Fernandez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron<\/st2:GivenName> Brooks<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> dropped 23 points to lead Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while reserve Von Wafer<\/st2:Sn> scored 21 points for the Rockets. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 54-28 SU, 46-36 ATS
Houston: 53-29 SU, 40-41-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Portland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Houston are 3-7
After playing Houston are 5-5
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Friday are 9-1
Before playing Portland are 6-4
After playing Portland are 7-3
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 Portland’s last 5 games when playing Houston
Portland is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
Portland is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Portland’s last 6 games on the road
Houston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Houston is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston’s last 5 games when playing Portland
Houston is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games when playing at home against Portland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Sunday, April 26
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> home to Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, April 26<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Toyota Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Rockets listed as 6-point favorites versus the Trail Blazers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Brandon Roy had 42 points and seven rebounds … Continue reading Trail Blazers-Rockets 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-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","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=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}