{"id":15157,"date":"2011-04-28T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T06:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15157"},"modified":"2011-04-28T01:18:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T06:18:12","slug":"blazers-try-to-stave-off-elimination-in-game-6-versus-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/blazers-try-to-stave-off-elimination-in-game-6-versus-mavericks-15157\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers try to Stave Off Elimination in Game 6 versus Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2011 NBA Playoffs Western Conference Quarterfinals, Game #6<br \/>\n#3 Dallas Mavericks at #6 Portland Trail Blazers (DAL leads series 3-2) Best of Seven Series Format, 2-2-1-1-1<br \/>\nRose Garden, Portland, Oregon<br \/>\nThursday, April 28, 2011, 10:35 pm Eastern, TV: TNT<br \/>\nOpening Line: Blazers -4<br \/>\nCurrent Line: Blazers -4 1\/2<br \/>\nOpening Total: 182<br \/>\nCurrent Total: 182<br \/>\nMoney Line: Blazers -200 \/ Mavericks +170<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9296\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/brandon-roy-blazers-2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/brandon-roy-blazers-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/brandon-roy-blazers-2.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Portland Trail Blazers try to stave off elimination at home in game 6 against the Mavericks. Portland is a 4 1\/2 point favorite. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many people wondered how the Mavericks would respond after a disastrous\u00a0 game 4 4th quarter where the Mavericks were up by 18 and ended up losing 84-82. Many thought Portland took all the momentum and might be able to steal game 5 from a shell shocked Mavericks team. The Mavericks won game 5 in Dallas Monday night 93-82 to take a 3-2 lead in the series. Now, Dallas has a chance to close out the Blazers in Portland for game 6. However it won&#8217;t be easy as these two teams have played 9 times this season and the home team has won every game.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Miller led the Blazers in scoring in game 5 with 18 points and 7 assists. Gerald Wallace had 16 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks. LaMarcus Aldridge had 12 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks. Nicolas Batum added 12 points off the bench. After a sensational game 4 in which Brandon Roy scored 24 points, including 18 in the fourth, Roy only scored 5 points in game 5. The Blazers shot 43% from the field including 4 out of 16 from 3 point range. Portland made 14 out of 19 free throw attempts. Portland had 37 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 turnovers in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Nowitzki has been nearly unstoppable in this series especially at home, averaging 26 points a game in the playoffs. Monday night he had 25 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals. Jason Terry added 20 points off the bench. Tyson Chandler had 14 points and an impressive 20 rebounds, including 13 offensive rebounds. Shawn Marion had 14 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals, and 2 blocks. Jason Kidd only had 4 points but had 14 assists. Dallas shot 41% from the field including 3 for 17 from 3-point range. They missed 9 free throws out of 35 attempts. The Mavericks had 49 rebounds, 22 assists, and 12 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 2006 Finals where Dallas won the first 2 games before Miami won 4 straight to win the title, the Mavericks are 2-18 straight up in road playoff games. Dallas is 18-46 all time in Portland, including 1-8 in the playoffs. Portland has never\u00a0 overcome a 3-2 series deficit in their history. Dallas is 9-7 in the last 3 years straight up versus Portland, but 10-6 ATS in those games. Portland is 91-69 as a favorite the last 3 seasons. Dallas is 49-36 ATS in all games this season, including 27-16 on the road, 16-6 after a win of 10 or more points, and 29-16 against teams with winning records this season.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas forward Caron Butler, and guards Rodrique Beaubois &amp; Dominque Jones are all out indefinitely with injuries. Portland guard Elliott Williams and Greg Oden are both out for the season but haven&#8217;t played at all this season.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason Portland lost game 5 was because of the rebounding differential especially on the offensive glass. Dallas didn&#8217;t shoot very well but got so many second chance opportunities that they were able to overcome that. Tyson Chandler got 13 offensive rebounds by himself. That can&#8217;t happen if Portland wants to force a game 7. Dallas has not won in Portland this year. I think the Blazers force a game 7 Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Our NBA handicappers are red hot in the playoffs. Check out our NBA odds page for the best odds on this game and every other playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 NBA Playoffs Western Conference Quarterfinals, Game #6 #3 Dallas Mavericks at #6 Portland Trail Blazers (DAL leads series 3-2) Best of Seven Series Format, 2-2-1-1-1 Rose Garden, Portland, Oregon Thursday, April 28, 2011, 10:35 pm Eastern, TV: TNT Opening Line: Blazers -4 Current Line: Blazers -4 1\/2 Opening Total: 182 Current Total: 182 Money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40249,"featured_media":9296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1635,4794,1828,2166,4802,2189,83,4795,4796,3913,4870],"class_list":["post-15157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-game-6","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-betting","tag-nba-handicapping-2","tag-nba-hoops","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-pro-basketball","tag-pro-hoops","tag-tnt","tag-western-conference-quarterfinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15160,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions\/15160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}