{"id":6281,"date":"2009-11-06T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/espn-nba-handicapping-spurs-vs-trail-blazers\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:06:00","slug":"espn-nba-handicapping-spurs-vs-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/espn-nba-handicapping-spurs-vs-trail-blazers\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN NBA Handicapping: Spurs vs Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The San Antonio Spurs and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Rose Garden. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Spurs were defeated 113-99 by the Jazz last time out, as a pick&#8217;em. That game&#8217;s 212 points sailed OVER the posted total of 197. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Tim Duncan had 15 points to go with 13 rebounds for a double-double in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">LaMarcus Aldridge went for 20 points and 14 rebounds for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in its 97-91 loss to <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as 7-point road underdogs, while the teams played UNDER the 192-point total set by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 2-2 SU, 2-2 ATS <br \/>Portland: 2-3 SU, 2-3 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">San Antonio most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 9-1<br \/>Before playing Toronto are 7-3<br \/>After playing Utah are 8-2<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Portland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Minnesota are 4-6<br \/>After playing Atlanta are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>San Antonio is 20-4 SU in its last 24 games when playing Portland<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of San Antonio&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Portland<br \/>San Antonio is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games when playing on the road against Portland<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of San Antonio&#8217;s last 9 games when playing Portland<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Portland&#8217;s last 9 games <br \/>Portland is 20-5 SU in its last 25 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Portland&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>Portland is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing San Antonio<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, November 9<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, November 8<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><b><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Antonio Spurs and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Rose Garden. Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Spurs were defeated 113-99 by the Jazz last time out, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/espn-nba-handicapping-spurs-vs-trail-blazers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESPN NBA Handicapping: Spurs vs Trail Blazers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","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=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}