{"id":6335,"date":"2009-11-10T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/nba-handicapping-rockets-vs-mavericks\/"},"modified":"2009-11-10T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T11:50:00","slug":"nba-handicapping-rockets-vs-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/nba-handicapping-rockets-vs-mavericks\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Handicapping: Rockets vs Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at American<\/st1:PlaceName> Airlines<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 6-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Luis Scola had a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds on Friday, leading the Rockets to a 105-94 victory over the Thunder. The Rockets covered the 6.5-point spread, and the 199 points made it OVER the posted total of 188.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Trevor Ariza and Carl Landry each had 21 points in that win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dirk Nowitzki tossed in 29 points and hauled down nine rebounds in leading the Mavericks over the Raptors 129-101 last time out. The Mavericks covered the 7.5-point spread, and the 230 points sailed OVER the posted total of 202.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason Terry added 19 points and Shawn Marion collected 18 in that victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 4-2 SU, 5-1 ATS
Dallas: 4-2 SU, 4-2 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing Memphis are 8-2
After playing Oklahoma City are 7-3
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Dallas most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 8-2
Before playing San Antonio are 6-4
After playing Toronto are 5-5
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Houston is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston’s last 5 games
Houston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 6 games when playing Dallas
Dallas is 20-3 SU in its last 23 games at home
Dallas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Dallas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
Dallas is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Houston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Memphis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, November 11
Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, November 11<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at American Airlines Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 6-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Luis Scola had a double-double with 19 points and … Continue reading NBA Handicapping: Rockets vs Mavericks<\/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-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","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=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}