CRAIG TRAPP
Portland Trail Blazers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (NBA)
Apr 3, 2009 9:05 PM EDT

Play: Point Spread: -5.5 Portland Trail Blazers

Portland needs to finish this season strong if they are going to get a first round home court advantage. Currently they are only a 1/2 game behind for the 4th playoff spot. The Blazers have won three games in a row at home and now are starting a road trip at OKC. OKC is coming off a very good win over SA on WED!! Lets look at records and trends in this match up:

Records

Portland: 47-27 SU, 40-34 ATS
Oklahoma City: 21-53 SU, 42-31-1 ATS

Trends:

-Trail Blazers are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 road games.
-Trail Blazers are 7-1 ATS in their last 8 games overall.
-Thunder are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games playing on 2 days rest.
-Thunder are 17-6-1 ATS in their last 24 home games.

At this point of the season love playing teams that have motivation for the playoffs and also love playing the teams that are hot. OKC has not given up but don't think they have the motivation that PORTLAND has. Lets take Portland and Brandon Roy to extend there win streak to 4 games and win easy.

SCORE POR 101 - OKC 92

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