{"id":4390,"date":"2009-05-09T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cavaliers-hawks-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:17:00","slug":"cavaliers-hawks-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cavaliers-hawks-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers-Hawks Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Hawks will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Philips Arena. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 9-point favorites versus the Hawks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
LeBron<\/st1:GivenName> James<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored a game-high 27 points to give the Cavaliers a 105-85 victory over the Hawks in Game 2 on Thursday, and now lead the best-of-seven semifinal 2-0. The Cavaliers covered the 13-point spread, and the 190 points made it OVER the posted total of 182. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Wally<\/st1:GivenName> Szczerbiak<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> netted 17 points for the Cavaliers, and Mo Williams collected 15 in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Maurice<\/st1:GivenName> Evans<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> tossed in 16 points and dished out four assists in a losing effort for the Hawks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 66-16 SU, 49-33 ATS
Atlanta: 47-35 SU, 43-37-2 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 8-2
Before playing Atlanta are 7-3
After playing Atlanta are 9-1
After a win are 9-1<\/p>\n

Atlanta most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Cleveland are 6-4
After playing Cleveland are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Atlanta
Cleveland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Atlanta is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Atlanta’s last 11 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta’s last 7 games when playing Cleveland
Atlanta is 14-6-1 ATS in its last 21 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Atlanta<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Monday, May 11
Atlanta<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Monday, May 11<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Hawks will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Philips Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 9-point favorites versus the Hawks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. LeBron James scored a game-high 27 points to give the Cavaliers a … Continue reading Cavaliers-Hawks 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-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","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=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}