in the first of today's Christmas showdowns we have the Orlando Magic, the Number two team in the EAST vs The Boston Celtics.. the game is being played in Orlando, one of my favorite places to catch a game and I believe the celtics are in some trouble.
The celtics have a hard enough time beating orlando with their whole team in tact, now their best player, and team captain, paul pierce is out for at least two weeks, I believe this team will struggle a lot without him . As I have always said, the type of 3 (Small Forward) a team has defines the type of team you have. Paul pierce is the epitome of the Celtics scheme, a well rounded, hard nosed, coachable player, which is the Motif the Celtics have built their last few years' successes on.
Tonight, Tony "no knee" allen is going to be guarding either Pietrus, or Vince Carter, both of which are going to be too physically big for him to hold. The celtics are also very weary in their bench's frontcourt, and will have a hard time with Brandon bass and Gortat coming off the bench. I look at this game as a blowout, but since its xmas lets just say
Orlando -5 V Boston ***
Today, The Kobes vs The Lebrons.
I think this game is going to be an exciting one, both teams at pretty much full strength, Kobe's team on a streak, Lebron's team finding themselves after a slow start, winning a couple big ones in a row.
Today will be a game of matchups. The lakers have 3, maybe even four individuals who can do a decent job on lebron. Lamar Odom, Ron Artest, Kobe, and perhaps even Sheldon Brown, are all around the right size and quickness to stay with the king (although primarily we will see artest.)
On the Flip side of the coin, the cavs have no answer for kobe other than lebron guarding him, which will keep the king at bay more that he had hoped for such a high profile game.
Look for the Lebrons to lose by 8 in this one.
LAL -5.5 V Cleveland **
NFL
Tonight there is a very big game in the NFL, the chargers vs Titans.
Vince Young has an opportunity to show how great of a player he really is tonight. Young having gone 7-1 since becoming the starter again, has only fallen to Payton Manning and the Undefeatable colts.
I am very impressed by San diego's ability to pull out wins, however, I am not convinced by the margin they are winning by. Last week they pulled out the win in a very close game with cin....
what scares me about that for the SD fans is that CIN is not a very explosive offensive team and tends to be more conservative. Tonight we are going to see a titans offense with 2 of the most athletic players in all of football, and a Coach that is itching to get back to the big game where he made his name known
Tonight Take TENNESSEE -3 ** (they have much more to gain from a win and much more to lose from a loss)
OVERALL RECORD
1-3 ****
47-36***
74-69**
2-7*
No comments:
Post a Comment