{"id":4338,"date":"2009-05-04T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-celtics-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T11:02:00","slug":"magic-celtics-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-celtics-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Celtics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden in the opening game of their second-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 3-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Magic scored 60 points in the first half and went on to eliminate the 76ers from the postseason with a 114-89 victory in Game 6 in the first round last time out. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Magic won that game as 6-point underdogs, and the combined score sailed OVER the posted total of 187. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rashard<\/st1:GivenName> Lewis<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Magic with 29 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Rafer Alston added 19 points and nine rebounds in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics held the Bulls to just 11 points in the second quarter and managed to pull out a hard-fought 109-99 victory in Game 7 of their first-round playoff series last time out. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics managed to cover the 5.5-point spread, while the combined score made it OVER the posted total of 196. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ray<\/st1:GivenName> Allen<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Celtics with 20 points and seven rebounds, while Paul<\/st1:GivenName> Pierce<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had 20 points to go with nine rebounds in the series-clinching win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 59-23 SU, 49-32-1 ATS
Boston: 62-20 SU, 43-39 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Orlando most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Boston are 8-2
After playing Philadelphia are 8-2
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Monday are 6-4
Before playing Orlando are 9-1
After playing Chicago are 7-3
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Orlando’s last 5 games
Orlando is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Orlando’s last 5 games when playing Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Orlando’s last 11 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston’s last 5 games at home
Boston is 12-1 SU in its last 13 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Boston’s last 9 games
Boston is 17-4 ATS in its last 21 games when playing at home against Orlando<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Wednesday, May 6
Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Wednesday, May 6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden in the opening game of their second-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 3-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. … Continue reading Magic-Celtics 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-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","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=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}