{"id":33766,"date":"2014-04-05T17:32:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T22:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33766"},"modified":"2014-04-05T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T22:32:24","slug":"sunday-nba-toronto-raptors-at-milwaukee-bucks-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-nba-toronto-raptors-at-milwaukee-bucks-betting-preview-33766\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday NBA:  Toronto Raptors at Milwaukee Bucks- Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DeMar-DeRozan-raptors-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15719\" alt=\"DeMar-DeRozan-raptors-10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DeMar-DeRozan-raptors-10.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DeMar-DeRozan-raptors-10.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DeMar-DeRozan-raptors-10-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a>Toronto at Milwaukee<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Time: 8:30 PM ET, Apr 5, 2014<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Spread: TOR -7<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Total: 196<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Betting odds courtesy of 5dimes<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Raptors hold the third spot in the East due to a tiebreaker with the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors are 44-32 on the season and will be seven point favorites in Milwaukee as it faces the worst team in the East., according to NBA oddsmakers at 5dimes.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors pulled a big win over an Eastern foe when it dispatched the Pacers 102-94 on Friday (Apr 4) night. Terrence Ross scored 24 and Jonas Valanciunas destroyed Roy Hibbert. Valanciunas had 24 points and nine rebounds while the East\u2019s All-Star center Hibbert had just 12 points on 5-of-13 shooting and a pathetic two rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors made a statement with the win; the Pacers struggle notwithstanding, and the team has a well-rounded unit that could surprise in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee has essentially been the laughingstock of the league. Former DPOY candidate Larry Sanders just failed a drug test for marijuana, and the Bucks really have nothing going for them other than the potential of Greek rookie Giannis Antetokounmpo, and he\u2019s years away from reaching his potential.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Knight and O.J. Mayo have paled as a backcourt in comparison to Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis, and even that pairing was not exactly the kind of efficiency which promoted a high winning percentage. Mayo has looked remarkably apathetic this season, and is seeing just under 26 minutes a game, after having a breakout campaign in Dallas last season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOR Trends: 6-1 ATS in last 7 Saturday games; OVER 5-1 in last 6 following ATS win; OVER 7-2 in last 9 on 0 days rest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MIL Trends: UNDER 4-0 in last 4 home games; UNDER 4-0 in last 4 after allowing 100 points or more in previous game; OVER 13-3 in last 16 following ATS loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:\u00a0 UNDER 5-1 in last 6 meetings in Milwaukee; Raptors 4-11 ATS in last 15 meetings.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto at Milwaukee Time: 8:30 PM ET, Apr 5, 2014 Spread: TOR -7 Total: 196 Betting odds courtesy of 5dimes The Toronto Raptors hold the third spot in the East due to a tiebreaker with the Chicago Bulls. The Raptors are 44-32 on the season and will be seven point favorites in Milwaukee as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[663,4209,7900,2189,7129,6624,693],"class_list":["post-33766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba-league-pass","tag-nba-live-lines","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-oddsmakers","tag-nba-picks-and-predictions","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33766","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33767,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33766\/revisions\/33767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}