{"id":23097,"date":"2012-05-18T11:26:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=23097"},"modified":"2012-05-18T11:26:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:26:54","slug":"nba-playoffs-2012-boston-celtics-vs-philadelphia-76ers-game-4-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoffs-2012-boston-celtics-vs-philadelphia-76ers-game-4-odds-23097\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoffs 2012: Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers, Game 4 Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics at Philadelphia 76ers
\nFriday, 5\/18\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 172.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 174
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Boston Celtics have a 2-1 series lead over the Philadelphia 76ers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston regained control of this best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series, capturing a 107-91 win over the Philadelphia 76ers as two-point road underdogs in Game 3.\u00a0 \u201cWe ran into a Celtic team that has a real sense of purpose about them tonight,\u201d commented 76ers head coach Doug Collins.\u00a0 The Celtics have three players averaging in double figures during the 2012 NBA playoffs, with center Kevin Garnett leading the way in scoring 20.3 points and grabbing 11.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Boston is 17-12 ATS as an underdog and the \u201cunder\u201d is 17-12 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Celtics out-rebounded the 76ers by a 44-37 margin, while also outscoring them in the paint by seven points on Wednesday night.\u00a0 Boston controlled the tempo on the floor with Rajon Rondo piloting the offense, finishing with 23 points and 14 assists.\u00a0 His main target was Garnett, who hit 12 of 17 shots and finished with 27 points.\u00a0 There\u2019s no doubt that the experienced roster holds a major edge over its youthful opponent the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has landed in a must-win situation in Game 4, as it needs to even the series at 2-2 before heading back to Boston.\u00a0 \u201cIt was a little embarrassing because you don\u2019t want to put on a showing like that,\u201d stated 76ers point guard Jrue Holiday about the 16-point defeat at home.\u00a0 He leads the team in averaging 16.7 points during the playoffs, shooting 44 percent from beyond the arc, while the rest of the roster is making just 25 percent of its shots from the 3-point area.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 7-10 ATS as a home favorite of three or fewer points over the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The 76ers are getting very little production out of forward Elton Brand, who has not played more than 18 minutes in any of the three games in this series.\u00a0 He is averaging 4.4 points on 30.2 percent shooting over his last seven contests.\u00a0 All-Star Andre Iguodala needs to continue attacking the rim, averaging 15.5 points per game over his last five contests, which is much better than the 10.4 points he was scoring in the first five contests.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Celtics due to their 9-2-1 ATS mark as an underdog of 4.5 or fewer points, while the 76ers are 2-7 ATS as a home favorite in the same point range.<\/p>\n

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Boston Celtics at Philadelphia 76ers Friday, 5\/18\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 172.5 Current Total:\u00a0 174 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Boston regained control of this best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series, capturing a 107-91 win over the Philadelphia 76ers as two-point road underdogs in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6680,3181,120,943,764,832,197],"class_list":["post-23097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-2012-nba-playoffs","tag-andre-iguodala","tag-boston-celtics","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-kevin-garnett","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-rajon-rondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097","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=23097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23098,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions\/23098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}