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On paper we have a typical NBA night game Houston Rockets (-7, -290) at Phoenix Suns. Both teams will be playing back to back after played on the West Coast Last night.
- The Rockets, despite a HORRIBLE shooting performance (27-74 36%) beat the Golden State Warriors by 6 as 2 point underdogs. Rockets went 15-35 42.9% from 3pt land. They where still able to take care of Golden State.
- The Suns lost in Sacramento by 9 as 7 point underdogs. These two teams (suns and kings) are in the bottom 6 of the NBA record wise.
Now what makes this play so interesting is how depleted the Suns are. The Suns center Gortat is out a couple weeks with a foot issue. He is avg 11ppg and 8.5 rebounds a game. Then his BACKUP Jermaine O'Neal is out with person issues at 8ppg and 5 rebounds per game. So now PF Scola has to move over to Center with no depth behind him. The Suns HAVE NO DEPTH. The suns best players played a lot of the game last night night. Scola played 35 minutes and Dragic played 36 minutes last night.
*Whats huge is the lack of a real center here. Cousins was able to put up 22 points on 9-13 shooting with with 14 rebounds because the Suns do not have a true center right now. Cousins has been struggling as of late and has lost a LOT of playing time, but he played 35 minutes last night because Sac knew the guy to the game was in the post.
The Rockets will pound the ball down to Omar Asik tonight, the 7ft Center to just handle Scola. I havent even mentioned Harden yet? I don't need too.....he could probably sit this game out.
Rockets roll HUGE
Prediction:
Rockets 115 over the Suns 98
Rockets -7 HUGE
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Originally Posted by PAULYPOKER
