{"id":4446,"date":"2009-05-20T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-cavaliers-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T11:55:00","slug":"magic-cavaliers-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-cavaliers-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Cavaliers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Quicken Loans Arena in the opening game of the Eastern Conference Finals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 9-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Magic defeated Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> 101-82 as a 3-point underdog in Game 7 of their second-round series on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (187). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hedo<\/st1:GivenName> Turkoglu<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored 25 points and dished out 12 assists for Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, while Dwight<\/st1:GivenName> Howard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had 12 points and 16 rebounds. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
LeBron<\/st1:GivenName> James<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had 27 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists to lead the Cavaliers past the Hawks 84-74 to sweep their second-round series 4-0 last time out. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> covered as 9.5-point road favorites as the game played under the 180-point total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 59-23 SU, 49-32-1 ATS
Cleveland: 66-16 SU, 49-33 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Orlando most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 5-5
Before playing Cleveland are 4-6
After playing Boston are 5-5
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Orlando are 5-5
After playing Atlanta are 9-1
After a win are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland
Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Orlando’s last 5 games
Orlando is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland
Cleveland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 20-1 SU in its last 21 games at home
Cleveland is 11-1 ATS in its last 12 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, May 22
Cleveland<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, May 22<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Quicken Loans Arena in the opening game of the Eastern Conference Finals. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 9-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. … Continue reading Magic-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-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","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=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}