Handicapper: Nite Owl Sports
Sport: NBA Basketball
Game: Denver Nuggets @ Dallas Mavericks - Monday May 11, 2009 9:35 pm
Pick: 3 units MONEYLINE: Dallas Mavericks -120
It's hard handicapping a game 4 like this, where one of the teams is up 3-0, and it's also hard to back the team that just went down 0-3 with a devastating, controversial last second loss, like Mavs did. But in game 3 we saw a denver team that did not even 'show up" until midway through the 2Q, missing 16 of their first 19 shots and looking awful on offense (of course, it does not speak well of Mavs that they could not takle advantage of Denver's poor 1Q play, having to settle for a 20-20 tie after one quarter of the ugliest ball we have seen in NBA TY since the last time we suffered thru a Clippers game, with "comped" tickets).
And Denver has shown TY, with a number of losses as road faves to teams they should have handled easily, that when they are not "ready to play," they can be pretty bad. So we don't expect a high energy, focused effort at all by Denver, which we expect/hope the Mavs can take advantage of this time.