{"id":10244,"date":"2009-04-17T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2023-02-07T06:36:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:36:30","slug":"2009-pistons-cavaliers-playoff-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nba\/2009-pistons-cavaliers-playoff-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 NBA Playoff Betting: Pistons vs. Cavs Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Pistons vs. Cleveland Cavaliers Betting Odds + Playoff Schedule<\/h2>\n

Cleveland (1) vs. Detroit (8)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Key to series:<\/strong> \u00a0Neither team attacks the boards too hard. If Detroit can talk Rasheed Wallace into joining Antonio McDyess inside every now and then, the Pistons could make it mildly interesting in what might be the final go-around for this group of veterans before the team is blown up.<\/p>\n

Season Overall Record:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cleveland 62-16
\nDetroit 39-43<\/p>\n

Season series:<\/strong>\u00a0Cleveland 3-1<\/p>\n

Head-to-head:<\/strong>\"Sports<\/p>\n

(at) Cleveland 79, Detroit 73
\n(at) Cleveland 99, Detroit 78
\nCleveland 90, (at) Detroit 80
\n(at) Detroit 96, Cleveland 89<\/p>\n

Playoff schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Game 1 – Sat April 18 Detroit at Cleveland 3:00PM ABC
\nGame 2 – Tue April 21 Detroit at Cleveland 8:00PM TNT
\nGame 3 – Fri April 24 Cleveland at Detroit 7:00PM ESPN
\nGame 4 – Sun April 26 Cleveland at Detroit 3:30PM ABC
\nGame 5 * Wed April 29 Detroit at Cleveland TBD
\nGame 6 * Fri May 1 Cleveland at Detroit TBD
\nGame 7 * Sun May 3 Detroit at Cleveland TBD
\n*(If necessary)<\/p>\n

Playoff Gambling Trends:<\/strong>\u00a0If not now for Cleveland, when? The Cavs are healthy and happy, sitting on home-court advantage against all comers. In games they cared about, they were 40-1 in Cleveland. The Pistons have been a tired and mediocre team SU and ATS all season.<\/p>\n

How Cleveland wins:<\/strong>\u00a0Fairly simple here. LeBron James arrives at the arena in one piece, the Cavs mop up in Cleveland and they rest up for the next series.<\/p>\n

How Detroit wins:<\/strong>\u00a0The Pistons slow the game to a crawl, then shoot 45 percent from 3-point territory, 10 points higher than during the regular season. The referees decide to overturn 50 years of NBA tradition and start calling fouls on superstars and James, in foul trouble, sits out long stretches of several games.<\/p>\n

Prediction:<\/strong>\u00a0Cavaliers in 4.<\/p>\n

Props, Halftime, Quarter Line, player props and more. All the lines are at Bodog!<\/p>\n

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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel writer from Massachusetts. He is personally responsible for the election of Barack Obama and has also taught himself how to juggle? \u00a0He can be reached at newenglandhoops.net.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well the secret is out on the 2009 Detroit Pistons. This year\u2019s Pistons will be hard pressed to exit the first round, most likely it will be an end to their run of 6 conference finals appearances. Round 1 sees the Pistons vs. the Cavs, and the Lebron show wins…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41,12960,12998,1982,13067,744,1595,2381,12357,3925,13082,13083,13084,13080,13081,12965,12969],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-41","tag-2009-nba-playoff-betting","tag-detroit-pistons-vs-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-eastern-conference","tag-eastern-conference-2009-playoff-predictions","tag-nba-betting","tag-nba-gambling","tag-nba-picks","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-predictions","tag-pistons-vs-cavaliers-odds","tag-pistons-vs-cavaliers-predictions","tag-pistons-vs-cavaliers-preview","tag-pistons-vs-cavs-playoff-schedule","tag-pistons-vs-cavs-series-odds","tag-playoff-predictions","tag-round-1-matchup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103011,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions\/103011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}