{"id":21549,"date":"2012-02-06T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21549"},"modified":"2012-02-06T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:04:46","slug":"thunder-vs-blazers-oklahoma-city-seeks-revenge-inside-the-rose-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/thunder-vs-blazers-oklahoma-city-seeks-revenge-inside-the-rose-garden-21549\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder vs. Blazers: Oklahoma City Seeks Revenge Inside the Rose Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers
\nMonday, 2\/6\/12, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBATV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 198
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are tremendous following a loss since the start of the 2010-11 season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City will be seeking revenge in Monday\u2019s contest against the Portland Trail Blazers, dropping a 103-93 decision in the first meeting this year as 4.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Thunder will be playing their second game of a five-game trip, falling 107-96 to the San Antonio Spurs as 2.5-point road underdogs on Saturday.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s all about stopping the basketball and we didn\u2019t do a good job of that,\u201d stated Thunder head coach Scott Brooks.\u00a0 The team may want to focus on defending the perimeter, allowing opponents to hit 41 of 95 three-point shots in the last five road games.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 4-2 ATS as a road favorite of three points or less this season.<\/p>\n

The Thunder enter the Rose Garden with an NBA-best 9-4 road record, which makes them one of only three Western Conference teams with a winning record away from home.\u00a0 Dating back to the start of the 2010-11 campaign, Oklahoma City is a solid 23-7 when playing off a straight-up loss.\u00a0 Star forward Kevin Durant will need to perform better against Portland in order to pull off the win tonight, shooting just 32.4 percent in his last three games in this series.<\/p>\n

Portland knows it will be in a dog fight tonight due to handing Oklahoma City its only home loss of the season thus far, while all four meetings were decided by fewer than 10 points during the 2010-11 series.\u00a0 The Blazers have alternated wins and losses over their last seven games, coming off a dominating 117-97 win over the Denver Nuggets as 6.5-point home favorites, while going \u201cover\u201d the total for the first time in five contests.\u00a0 Portland is 10-2 ATS at home this season, but just 1-4 ATS as an underdog in all contests.<\/p>\n

The Blazers\u2019 11-1 record inside tonight\u2019s venue is the franchise\u2019s best start at home since the 1997-98 season.\u00a0 Portland is being led by power forward LaMarcus Aldridge, who ranks sixth in the NBA in averaging 23.1 points per game.\u00a0 The team is one of only two in the Western Conference and three teams in the NBA to have six players averaging double-figures in scoring.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Thunder due to their 8-3 ATS mark as a road favorite of 4.5 points or less, while the Blazers are 1-6 ATS following a spread win.<\/p>\n

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Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers Monday, 2\/6\/12, 10:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBATV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 198 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City will be seeking revenge in Monday\u2019s contest against the Portland Trail Blazers, dropping a 103-93 decision in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1193,3303,18,399,830,3914],"class_list":["post-21549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-kevin-durant","tag-lamarcus-aldridge","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-rose-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21550,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549\/revisions\/21550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}