{"id":4408,"date":"2009-05-12T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rockets-lakers-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:27:00","slug":"rockets-lakers-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rockets-lakers-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets-Lakers Odds 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 Tuesday when they battle at STAPLES<\/st2:PlaceName> Center<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place> in the fifth game of their second-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 12\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rockets upset the Lakers 99-87 as an 8-point underdog in Game 4 on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (197.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron<\/st1:GivenName> Brooks<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored a game-high 34 points for Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> and Shane<\/st1:GivenName> Battier<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> added 23 points. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pau Gasol led the Lakers with 30 points and nine rebounds, while Kobe Bryant scored 15 points on 7-of-17 shooting. <\/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 Tuesday are 6-4
Before playing LA Lakers are 6-4
After playing LA Lakers are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing Houston are 6-4
After playing Houston are 8-2
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Houston’s last 8 games
Houston is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 6 games when playing LA Lakers
Houston is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
LA Lakers are 10-1 SU in their last 11 games at home
LA Lakers are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games when playing at home against Houston
LA Lakers are 13-4 SU in their last 17 games
LA Lakers are 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games when playing Houston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to LA Lakers, Thursday, May 14
LA Lakers at Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Thursday, May 14<\/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 Tuesday when they battle at STAPLES Center in the fifth game of their second-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 12\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. … Continue reading Rockets-Lakers Odds 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-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","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=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}