Bulls Disarm the Warriors
I can honestly say I’ve seen the Chicago Bulls play an almost perfect game of basketball during the 2010-11 season as they disarmed the usual high scoring Golden State Warriors 120-90 Thursday to advance past .500 with a 4-3 record.
Everything was one fluent motion from offense to defense as the Bulls ran the court from rebound to pass to bucket; it was a thing of beauty for a Bulls fan.
Early in the first quarter, the game was tied 8-8 until the Bulls went on an eight point run and the Warriors could never catch up as the Bulls led the rest of the game.
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Indiana Surprises the World
Tuesday, the Indiana Pacers went off in the third quarter against the Denver Nuggets, shooting 20-of-21 from the field and scoring 54 points. They would have broken a record with a 20-for-20 perfect quarter, but Josh McRoberts missed a three-point basket late with 40 seconds left on the clock.
The Pacers tore it up, but unfortunately, I thought the game would go the other way for the Nuggets because no one would ever think the Pacers would shoot as good as they did. Mike Dunleavy had 24 points in the third quarter alone and finished with 31 points for the night.
Lets see how the rest of the night went around the League.
Hawks lose first game
Sunday’s games led me astray because I thought they were easy picks and might have one loss because I chose to go against the Los Angeles Lakers. Of course, the Lakers win and so did two of the other teams I thought would lose, while the Atlanta Hawks who were undefeated at 6-0 lost to the Phoenix Suns.
Today’s games should go a little smoother, well, lets hope.
SUNDAY PICKS
Phoenix Suns beat Atlanta Hawks 118-114…Wrong, Joe Johnson scored 34 points and the Hawks still lost, Phoenix must have been on all cylinders.
Detroit Pistons beat Golden State Warriors 102-97…Wrong, I don’t understand how the Pistons win games.
Houston Rockets beat Minnesota Timberwolves 120-94…Right, Minnesota is garbage
Boston Celtics beat Oklahoma City Thunder 92-83…Right, OKC can not play with big physical teams.
Los Angeles Lakers beat Portland Trailblazers 121-96…Wrong, went for the upset and Pau Gasol goes off for a trippe-double.
MONDAY’S GAMES AND PICKS
Denver Nuggets at Chicago Bulls…Bulls, Denver is playing a real small lineup, the front court of the Bulls should dominate the glass, resulting in a win.
Atlanta Hawks at Orlando Magic…Hawks, although they lost yesterday, they played tough. This will be a good game.
Golden State Warriors at Toronto Raptors…Warriors, they’ve been having a tough time lately against teams who have scoring talent because they don’t have defense, but the Raptors can’t score.
San Antonio Spurs at Charlotte Bobcats…Spurs, TOO good.
Phoenix Suns at Memphis Grizzlies…Suns, Steve Nash and Jason Richardson are playing out of their minds lately.
Boston Celtics at Dallas Mavericks…Boston, they’re on a roll and are too good defensively for the Mavericks.
Knicks back court and Thunder studs go crazy
Thursday there were only two games on the NBA schedule, so usually it would be reasonable to think I could finish the day with .500 on NBA picks. Nope, not with the New York Knicks shooting 16-of-24 from the three-point line and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook scoring 28 points a piece to defeat the Portland Trailblazers in overtime.
I’m disappointed in the Bulls, favorite team, and the Blazers, one of my two bandwagon teams, couldn’t help me out. If they can’t who can, I guess Friday’s games will tell.
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Thursday Results (0-2)
New York Knicks beat Chicago Bulls 120-112…Wrong, the Knicks shot the lights out of the United Center and the Bulls defense didn’t do anything.
Oklahoma City Thunder beat Portland Trailblazers 107-106 in overtime…Wrong, Durant and Westbrook took it to them.
First sign of Perfection
It’s official, I finally had a perfect record in my NBA predictions Tuesday going a perfect 6-for-6. There was supposed to be a seventh game, but because of debris falling from the ceiling of Madison Square Garden, the New York Knick and Orlando game was canceled because of an asbestos threat.
Anyway, It is 7 p.m. and Wednesday’s games have already started. I wasn’t able to get my picks out due to a migraine headache gracing me around lunch time and sticking by my side until somewhere around 6 p.m. I’m going to make my picks without looking at what is going on now. I promise I haven’t looked, it you don’t believe me, that is your problem.
