{"id":6504,"date":"2009-04-28T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rockets-trail-blazers-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-28T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:29:00","slug":"rockets-trail-blazers-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rockets-trail-blazers-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets-Trail Blazers Lines Preview"},"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 Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>Rose<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Garden<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series. <?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 Rockets defeated <st2:City><st2:place>Portland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> 89-88 as a 5-point favorite in Game 4 on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (182). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Yao Ming scored 21 points and had 12 rebounds for <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, while <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Luis<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Scola<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> chipped in with 17 points and eight rebounds in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Brandon<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Roy<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Trail Blazers with 31 points and <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>LaMarcus<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Aldridge<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had 19 points and 10 rebounds. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 53-29 SU, 40-41-1 ATS <br \/>Portland: 54-28 SU, 46-36 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Houston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>After playing Portland are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Portland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>After playing Houston 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 \/>Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Portland<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston&#8217;s last 6 games when playing on the road against Portland<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>Houston is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games <br \/>Portland is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Portland&#8217;s last 6 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Portland&#8217;s last 6 games when playing at home against Houston<br \/>Portland is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/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 Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Rose Garden in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series. Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. The Rockets defeated Portland 89-88 as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rockets-trail-blazers-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockets-Trail Blazers Lines Preview<\/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-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","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=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}