{"id":6501,"date":"2009-04-28T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/bulls-celtics-lines-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-04-28T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:23:00","slug":"bulls-celtics-lines-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/bulls-celtics-lines-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls-Celtics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago Bulls and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bulls edged Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> 121-118 as a 3-point home favorite on Sunday and tied up the first-round series. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (202.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Derrick<\/st1:GivenName> Rose<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored 23 points to go along with 11 rebounds and nine assists for Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, while Ben<\/st1:GivenName> Gordon<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> added 22 points in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Paul<\/st1:GivenName> Pierce<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Celtics with 29 points and Rajon Rondo had a triple-double with 25 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 41-41 SU, 42-39-1 ATS
Boston: 62-20 SU, 43-39 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 8-2
Before playing Boston are 7-3
After playing Boston are 6-4
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 8-2
Before playing Chicago are 7-3
After playing Chicago are 8-2
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago’s last 6 games when playing Boston
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Boston
Chicago is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Chicago is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston’s last 5 games at home
Boston is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston’s last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston’s last 6 games when playing Chicago<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chicago<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Thursday, April<\/st1:GivenName> 30
Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Thursday, April 30<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Chicago Bulls and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8-point favorites versus the Bulls, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The … Continue reading Bulls-Celtics 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-6501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501","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=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}