{"id":6534,"date":"2009-04-29T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/hornets-nuggets-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T11:32:00","slug":"hornets-nuggets-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/hornets-nuggets-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets-Nuggets Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New Orleans Hornets and the Denver Nuggets will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Pepsi<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 11-point favorites versus the Hornets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carmelo<\/st2:GivenName> Anthony<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 26 points, seven assists, and six rebounds, as the Nuggets slammed the Hornets 121-63 to take a 3-1 lead in the series on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as 3-point road underdogs as the game played under the 193-point total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chauncey<\/st2:GivenName> Billups<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went for 17 points and eight assists for the Nuggets, who got 14 points off the bench from Linas<\/st2:GivenName> Kleiza<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in the blowout. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David<\/st2:GivenName> West<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> dropped 14 points for New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while reserve James<\/st2:GivenName> Posey<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added 12 points and seven boards for the Hornets. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 49-33 SU, 35-45-2 ATS
Denver: 54-28 SU, 45-36-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New Orleans most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 8-2
After playing Denver are 3-7
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Denver most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 3-7
After playing New Orleans are 7-3
After a win are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of New Orleans’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Denver
The total has gone UNDER in 16 of New Orleans’s last 23 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of New Orleans’s last 6 games when playing Denver
New Orleans is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Denver is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Denver is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing New Orleans
Denver is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home
Denver is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New Orleans Hornets and the Denver Nuggets will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Pepsi Center in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series. Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 11-point favorites versus the Hornets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Carmelo … Continue reading Hornets-Nuggets Odds 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-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","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=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}