{"id":33323,"date":"2014-03-06T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33323"},"modified":"2014-03-06T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T21:48:12","slug":"nba-predictions-indiana-pacers-vs-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-indiana-pacers-vs-houston-rockets-33323\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Indiana Pacers vs. Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Pacers vs. Houston Rockets
\nFriday, 3\/7\/14, 9:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 202
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 202
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Pacers are led offensively by forward Paul George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana has dropped back-to-back games, including a 109-87 defeat to the Charlotte Bobcats as 4.5-point road favorites Wednesday, while going OVER the betting total of 190.\u00a0 The Pacers have all five probable starters averaging double figures, with forward Paul George leading the way at 22.3 points per contest, which is important to consider when making your NBA predictions.\u00a0 The team is 17-11 SU on the road, including a 7-5 mark when taking on Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Indiana is 8-2 SU and 5-4-1 ATS off a upset loss as a favorite.<\/p>\n

The Pacers picked up the largest margin of victory in the history of this series in the last meeting, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Indiana has recorded 16 come-from-behind wins after trailing at halftime during the 2013-14 campaign, while it has ended up with a victory after leading after three quarters in 40 of 43 opportunities.\u00a0 Defensively, the franchise is allowing just 35.1 points per game in the paint\u2014a number that leads the league.<\/p>\n

Houston has won five of its last six games, including a 101-89 victory over the Orlando Magic as eight-point road favorites Wednesday, while going UNDER the betting total of 204.5.\u00a0 The Rockets are led offensively by the play of guard James Harden, who entered the last game averaging 24.4 points per game.\u00a0 The squad is 24-7 SU at home, including a 13-0 mark when taking on Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Houston is 14-11 SU and 11-13 ATS when revenging a loss this season.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are an NBA-best 21-6 since the calendar rolled into 2014\u2014having not lost a game when reaching the century mark offensively.\u00a0 Houston came into its last affair ranked third in the NBA in averaging 106.4 points per game, which is up slightly from its 106.0 mark of a season ago.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Rockets due to their 4-1 ATS mark at home versus teams with a winning road record.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indiana Pacers vs. Houston Rockets Friday, 3\/7\/14, 9:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 202 Current Total:\u00a0 202 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana has dropped back-to-back games, including a 109-87 defeat to the Charlotte Bobcats as 4.5-point road favorites Wednesday, while going OVER the betting total of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3622,831,565,3595,18,1918,3693],"class_list":["post-33323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-eastern-conference","tag-houston-rockets","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-james-harden","tag-nba","tag-paul-george","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33323","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=33323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33325,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33323\/revisions\/33325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}