Matt Rivers
Matt Rivers
2ND 500,000* OF THE ENTIRE SEASON!
Your winner here is on the Nuggets!
I just do not see this thing being close at all. I'm talking about a total double digit burial! Are the Lakers even good? Seriously. They were atrocious in those last two road games against a decimated with injuries and fairly talentless Rockets squad and lost one of the two games in Utah against the eighth seeded Jazz.
Obviously Kobe Bryant is phenomenal and can take over a game and will his team to a victory almost at anytime. But this Denver team was the better team at Staples in the first two games and easily could have won them both. Now back home in the rarifed air I just do not see anything but a total domination. George Karl's team is as confident as can be. They obliterated two quality squad in New Orleans and Dallas and were phenomenal in pretty much the second half of the season and almost unbeatable at home as always. Embarassing Chris Paul and Dirk Nowitzki is not easy and that's pretty much what happened in the previous rounds.
Carmelo Anthony is a blossoming superstar that can score with the best of them, Chauncey Billups is the leader of all leaders and shoving it straight up Joe Dumars and the Pistons asses for trading him, JR Smith can shoot from anywhere, Nene has really become a quality player and on and on and on.
This Denver team right now is way more talented than Kobe and what is almost crap. Sure Pau Gasol is very good and Lamar Odom can be good at times and Trevor Ariza has improved but all in all I'm not too sure anymore who on this LA team will show up and especially on the road in a very hostile environment which the Pepsi Center certainly is. Plus Derek Fisher seems to be regressing by the game and is just not good at all and in fact seems very old and slow.
Phil Jackson's boys looked the inferior team in front of their home crowd and were lucky to basically steal that game one. Now on the highway like this they are extremely close to being a dead man walking!
A score such as 112-91 would not surprise me in the slightest!
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GOOD LUCK