{"id":4407,"date":"2009-05-12T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-celtics-lines-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:25:00","slug":"magic-celtics-lines-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-celtics-lines-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Celtics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at TD Banknorth Garden will be treated to a game between the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics when they take their seats on Tuesday for the fifth game of this second-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics defeated Orlando 95-94 as a 5.5-point underdog on Sunday night behind Glen<\/st1:GivenName> Davis’ jumper at the buzzer. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics were a 5.5-point road underdog in the game. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (194.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Paul<\/st1:GivenName> Pierce<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Celtics with 27 points, while Rajon Rondo added 21 points and 14 rebounds. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dwight<\/st1:GivenName> Howard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had 23 points and 17 rebounds to lead the Magic and Rashard<\/st1:GivenName> Lewis<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> delivered 22 points in the loss. <\/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 Tuesday are 3-7
Before playing Boston are 7-3
After playing Boston are 6-4
After a loss are 8-2<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 8-2
Before playing Orlando are 8-2
After playing Orlando are 8-2
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Orlando is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Orlando’s last 7 games when playing Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Orlando’s last 17 games
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Orlando’s last 13 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 10 of Boston’s last 11 games at home
Boston is 13-2 SU in its last 15 games at home
Boston is 18-5 ATS in its last 23 games when playing at home against Orlando
Boston is 18-5 SU in its last 23 games when playing at home against Orlando<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> home to Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Thursday, May 14
Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Thursday, May 14<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at TD Banknorth Garden will be treated to a game between the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics when they take their seats on Tuesday for the fifth game of this second-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game’s total has not yet … 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-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","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=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}