{"id":4339,"date":"2009-05-04T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rockets-lakers-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T11:05:00","slug":"rockets-lakers-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rockets-lakers-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets-Lakers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at STAPLES<\/st2:PlaceName> Center<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place> in the opening game of their second-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rockets advanced to the conference semifinals with a 92-74 victory over the Trail Blazers in Game 6 of the first round last time out. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rockets covered the 5.5-point spread, while the 166 points fell UNDER the posted total of 179. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ron<\/st1:GivenName> Artest<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> netted a game-high 27 points for the Rockets, and Yao Ming added 17 in that win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kobe Bryant dropped 31 points to lead the Lakers past the Jazz 106-97 to win their conference quarterfinal series 4-1 last time out. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Los Angeles<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> couldn’t cover as 12.5-point home favorites as the teams played UNDER the 211-point total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 53-29 SU, 40-41-1 ATS
Los Angeles: 65-17 SU, 42-39-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing LA Lakers are 7-3
After playing Portland are 8-2
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Monday are 8-2
Before playing Houston are 4-6
After playing Utah are 9-1
After a win are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games
Houston is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Houston’s last 15 games on the road
LA Lakers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games at home
LA Lakers are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games
LA Lakers are 6-1 ATS in their last 7 games when playing Houston
LA Lakers are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing Houston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at LA Lakers, Wednesday, May 6
LA Lakers home to Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Wednesday, May 6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at STAPLES Center in the opening game of their second-round playoff series. Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Rockets advanced to … Continue reading Rockets-Lakers 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-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","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=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}