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.
Kings ruin perfect Saturday
The teams I hate such as the Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns haven’t let me down this season but the Chicago Bulls and my band wagon teams Portland Trailblazers and the Sacramento Kings have.
Saturday was another show of proof I should just not be a fan of any team, well, I’m going to anyway.
The Sacramento Kings were the only team I picked to win on Saturday to lose as they fell to the Memphis Grizzlies. Hmmm…what team’s band wagon should I jump on after I hop off of Sacramento’s wagon.
The almost perfect Saturday Results (8-1)
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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.
Knicks come to Chicago
The Chicago Bulls host the New York Knicks 7 p.m. Thursday in a battle of the big men.
The only way I want to look at this game is Amare Stoudemire verse Joakim Noah in a battle of one of the best scoring big men in the league against one of the best defensive big men in the league. This is a match up I’ve been waiting to see all season because unlike last year Noah is completely healthy and Stoudemire has something to prove. Taj Gibson might be assigned to Stoudemire, but I have faith in Noah taking a couple possessions against him.
Stoudemire wanted out of Phoenix so he could be the man and prove to the world he is one of the best players in the NBA. He has his opportunity, but has looked unimpressive because he has no one around him who can play basketball except forward Wilson Chandler.
Chicago should dominate the Knicks much like they did the Portland Trailblazers Monday. I don’t know if Luol Deng will show up and have another 40-point game, but Derrick Rose will be golden with 25-to-30 points and Noah will have his fourth consecutive double-double, especially as the flu symptoms are well behind him.
With this said, lets get to the picks.
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.
