{"id":4462,"date":"2009-05-22T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-cavaliers-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T12:06:00","slug":"magic-cavaliers-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-cavaliers-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Cavaliers Odds 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 Friday when they battle at Quicken Loans Arena in the second 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 erased a 16-point deficit and upset the Cavaliers 107-106 in Game 1 of the series on Wednesday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Magic won that game as a 8.5-point underdog, while the combined 213 points sailed OVER the posted total of 184.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dwight<\/st1:GivenName> Howard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Magic with 30 points and 13 rebounds for a double-double. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
LeBron<\/st1:GivenName> James<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led all scorers with 49 points, six rebounds, and eight assists for the Cavaliers. <\/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 Friday are 6-4
Before playing Cleveland are 5-5
After playing Cleveland are 6-4
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Orlando are 5-5
After playing Orlando are 7-3
After a loss are 8-2<\/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
Orlando is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Orlando’s last 5 games
Cleveland is 20-2 SU in its last 22 games at home
Cleveland is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
Cleveland is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games at home
Cleveland is 11-2 ATS in its last 13 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> home to Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Sunday, May 24
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Sunday, May 24<\/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 Friday when they battle at Quicken Loans Arena in the second 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 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-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","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=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}