Will be a good game to watch
Both of these teams will be there at the end this year, at least conference finals is a good guess.
OKC has two things tonight they'll be working on
1.) They continue to get better without Westbrook. With Westbrook they're a much better team, but they know he's one slice, cut or knee bump away from being out all year. So I know for a fact, this is a big game for them. This will be a "game within the game" type of game. Brooks will use tonight to test different lineups, see what works but they want to win. They need to know they can hang with Miami without Westbrook. i expect Jackson to have a good game tonight.
2.) Matchups. Brooks has some length this time he didn't have last time. I expect them to keep Durant off of LBJ to keep him out of foul trouble and we will likely see Roberson and PJ3 on Lebron and try to give him distance, make him shoot jumpers and then contest. They'll put Adams and Perk on Bosh and then likely on the offensive end, Battier and LBJ will switch on KD. I expect Perk to not play as much tonight. The local media has been hounding Brooks at every press conference about why Perk is amnestied
or why Perk plays so much against Miami. Hopefully Adams gets 6-8 more minutes tonight in place of Perk. Perk does not matchup well against Miami and the whole team suffers for it.
I'm pretty excited about tonight because I think tonight will go a long ways towards telling us whether this OKC team can matchup against this Heat team. These aren't anywhere near the same teams that met up in the finals. The superstars are the same but now OKC has PJ3, Adams, Roberson, Jackson is getting a lot of playing time,etc.... And Miami is missing Mike Miller, which is big for them, he spread the floor and killed OKC from 3. Dwade has declined. Bosh I think has gotten better and of course LBJ seems to get better every year as does KD.
Good Luck tonight no matter what you bet
But more than anything, enjoy a good game
Both of these teams will be there at the end this year, at least conference finals is a good guess.
OKC has two things tonight they'll be working on
1.) They continue to get better without Westbrook. With Westbrook they're a much better team, but they know he's one slice, cut or knee bump away from being out all year. So I know for a fact, this is a big game for them. This will be a "game within the game" type of game. Brooks will use tonight to test different lineups, see what works but they want to win. They need to know they can hang with Miami without Westbrook. i expect Jackson to have a good game tonight.
2.) Matchups. Brooks has some length this time he didn't have last time. I expect them to keep Durant off of LBJ to keep him out of foul trouble and we will likely see Roberson and PJ3 on Lebron and try to give him distance, make him shoot jumpers and then contest. They'll put Adams and Perk on Bosh and then likely on the offensive end, Battier and LBJ will switch on KD. I expect Perk to not play as much tonight. The local media has been hounding Brooks at every press conference about why Perk is amnestied
or why Perk plays so much against Miami. Hopefully Adams gets 6-8 more minutes tonight in place of Perk. Perk does not matchup well against Miami and the whole team suffers for it.I'm pretty excited about tonight because I think tonight will go a long ways towards telling us whether this OKC team can matchup against this Heat team. These aren't anywhere near the same teams that met up in the finals. The superstars are the same but now OKC has PJ3, Adams, Roberson, Jackson is getting a lot of playing time,etc.... And Miami is missing Mike Miller, which is big for them, he spread the floor and killed OKC from 3. Dwade has declined. Bosh I think has gotten better and of course LBJ seems to get better every year as does KD.
Good Luck tonight no matter what you bet
But more than anything, enjoy a good game
and is STILL a -13 in the +/- column