{"id":4346,"date":"2009-05-05T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/hawks-cavaliers-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:56:00","slug":"hawks-cavaliers-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/hawks-cavaliers-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks-Cavaliers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Atlanta Hawks and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 12-point favorites versus the Hawks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Hawks defeated Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 91-78 as a 5.5-point favorite in Game 7 on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (181). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Joe<\/st2:GivenName> Johnson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> scored 27 points for Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Josh<\/st2:GivenName> Smith<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added 21 points in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cavaliers defeated Detroit 99-78 as a 9-point favorite in Game 4 of their first-round series to sweep that set. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (179). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
LeBron<\/st2:GivenName> James<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> scored 36 points to go along with 13 rebounds and eight assists for Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> in that victory, and Mo Williams added 24 points on the day. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 47-35 SU, 43-37-2 ATS
Cleveland: 66-16 SU, 49-33 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Atlanta most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 4-6
Before playing Cleveland are 6-4
After playing Miami are 4-6
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing Atlanta are 6-4
After playing Detroit 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 Atlanta’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Atlanta’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Atlanta’s last 5 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Atlanta’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
Cleveland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 18-1 SU in its last 19 games at home
Cleveland is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games
Cleveland is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Thursday, May 7
Cleveland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, May 7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Atlanta Hawks and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 12-point favorites versus the Hawks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Hawks defeated Miami 91-78 as a 5.5-point favorite in Game … Continue reading Hawks-Cavaliers 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-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","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=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}