{"id":6528,"date":"2009-05-14T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/lakers-rockets-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T11:55:00","slug":"lakers-rockets-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/lakers-rockets-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers-Rockets Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Toyota<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in the sixth game of their second-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kobe Bryant dropped 26 points as the Lakers pounded the Rockets 118-78 to take a 3-2 lead in the series on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> covered as 12-point home favorites as the game played UNDER the 197-point total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pau Gasol added 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Lakers, who got 14 points and six boards from Andrew<\/st2:GivenName> Bynum<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron<\/st2:GivenName> Brooks<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> scored 14 points to lead Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Von Wafer<\/st2:Sn> drained 13 points off the bench for the Rockets. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 65-17 SU, 42-39-1 ATS
Houston: 53-29 SU, 40-41-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
After playing Houston are 8-2
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
After playing LA Lakers are 5-5
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
LA Lakers are 14-4 SU in their last 18 games
LA Lakers are 7-2 ATS in their last 9 games when playing Houston
LA Lakers are 7-2 SU in their last 9 games when playing Houston
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of the LA Lakers last 8 games
Houston is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Houston’s last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Houston’s last 9 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Houston’s last 7 games when playing LA Lakers<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Toyota Center in the sixth game of their second-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rockets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Kobe Bryant … Continue reading Lakers-Rockets Lines Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528","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=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}