Blazers seek fifth straight win with matchup vs. Wizards

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03/19/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Portland Trail Blazers continue their push to the postseason Friday when they welcome the woeful Washington Wizards to the Rose Garden.

The Blazers won their fourth straight game last Sunday against Toronto when Nicolas Batum made 5-of-6 from three-point land, en route to 22 points, leading Portland to a 109-98 win over the Raptors.

LaMarcus Aldridge also provided 22 points to go with 12 rebounds and Brandon Roy scored 20 for the Trail Blazers, who have won seven of eight overall and are 3-0 on their current four-game homestand.

Andre Miller had another solid all-around game with 13 points, seven rebounds and five assists for the victors.

"I think we're just finding our rhythm," Aldridge said. "We've had the same guys in the lineup for a few games. Now we're getting used to having guys in the lineup."

Portland currently holds the eighth and final playoff spot in the jumbled Western Conference but is a comfortable 4 1/2 games ahead of ninth-place Houston and just 1 1/2 behind No. 5 Oklahoma City.

The Wizards, meanwhile, lost their ninth straight game and fell to 0-2 on a four-game road trip Tuesday in Denver when Carmelo Anthony scored 29 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, as the Nuggets battled back to upend Washington, 97-87.

Despite spraining his left ankle, Andray Blatche paced Washington with 23 points and eight boards for the Wizards, who are a miserable 9-23 on the road.

Al Thornton scored 16 points, but fouled out in defeat, while Alonzo Gee added career highs of 13 points and 10 boards for the struggling Wizards.

"We have to stay positive and try to get the next win," Blatche said.

Blatche, who is averaging 24.4 points in 16 games since becoming the focus of the team after Antawn Jamison was traded to Cleveland, will be a game-time decision tonight.

The Blazers have won four straight over Washington at the Rose Garden, but came up on the short end of a 97-92 score against the Wizards in the nation's capital back in January. However, both Roy and Batum missed that game with injuries.

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Two playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count.

New England rolled off twelve unanswered points to give it a chance at securing the victory, but it never threatened to cover the 3.5-point spread. NFL bettors saw this one coming, as they bet the Ravens down from +6 to +3.5 as the week progressed. QB Tom Brady didn’t take part in the Patriots first preseason clash, but could see action this weekend.

His three replacements all put up embarrassing numbers. They went a combined 17 for 33, and threw three interceptions and no touchdowns. The New England defense was encouraging, as they held the Ravens to 2/12 third down conversions and surrendered just ten first downs. That ‘D’ should be bolstered with the addition of former Bucs and Denver Broncos betting safety John Lynch, who could make his Patriots debut on Sunday against his former mates.

HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game.

The logjam at the quarterback position didn’t get any easier to separate for Gruden, as all four of his QBs had positive experiences in the first exhibition of 2008. The four combined to complete 28 of their 40 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, and that was without starting QB Jeff Garcia in the lineup.

RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day.

First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08.

The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition.

These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years.

New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5.

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