{"id":6423,"date":"2009-11-17T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/nba-handicapping-raptors-vs-nuggets\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T13:39:00","slug":"nba-handicapping-raptors-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/nba-handicapping-raptors-vs-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Handicapping: Raptors vs Nuggets"},"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 Toronto Raptors and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Pepsi<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?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\">Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 8-point favorites versus the Raptors, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Raptors lost to <st1:City><st1:place>Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 101-100 as a 7.5-point underdog on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (232). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Chris Bosh led <st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> with 25 points and 10 rebounds, while Hedo Turkoglu had 20 points. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Nuggets held the Lakers to 23 points in the second half of a 105-79 victory on Friday. The Nuggets covered the 4-point spread, and the 184 points went UNDER the posted total of 212. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Carmelo Anthony tossed in 25 points and J.R. Smith added 209 in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 5-5 SU, 6-4 ATS <br \/>Denver: 7-3 SU, 5-5 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Toronto most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Utah are 3-7<br \/>After playing Phoenix are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Denver most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing LA Clippers are 7-3<br \/>After playing LA Lakers are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Toronto&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Denver<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Toronto&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Denver<br \/>Toronto is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto&#8217;s last 6 games <br \/>Denver is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Toronto<br \/>Denver is 20-2 SU in its last 22 games at home<br \/>Denver is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing Toronto<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Denver&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Toronto<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:State><st1:place>Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, November 18<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at LA Clippers, Friday, November 20<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 Toronto Raptors and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Pepsi Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 8-point favorites versus the Raptors, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Raptors lost to Phoenix 101-100 as a 7.5-point underdog on Sunday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/nba-handicapping-raptors-vs-nuggets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NBA Handicapping: Raptors vs Nuggets<\/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-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423","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=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}