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20-9 in last 29
BUT
0-2 in the NBA!
No excuses for that. Short and sweet: I like this play.
A couple general capping rules are in effect for this one:
1. Look to back a team off a embarrassing loss.
These NBA guys lay down night after night. We know this.
It doesn't get much worse than last night giving up a whopping 142 to the often times, hapless Kings.
That is their worst drubbing since 1990 when they gave up 150 to the Jordan led Bulls. Now that's embarrassing folks (and at a minimum, the latter was against an all-world team with the league's greatest player).
Players have pride though and it is in full effect when they play an awful team off a bad loss (a low hanging apple to restore it).
2. Play a game with no line or get points
No spread here: Suns at -1. That's effectively a ML. Can't ask for more than that against the atrocious Lakers
3. Is the team you are playing fully motivated?
No.
We don't know when the Lakers will win or lose, but they will lose far more often then they win.
They beat the Celtics in Kobe's last game in Boston (that's a lot of motivation).
They beat the Sixers last game (the Sixers beat them earlier in the year. This was about as meaningful a revenge game could be for the Lakers given the indignity of losing two straight to a team that started out with the worst record over 31 games in the history of modern North American sports 1-30).
Finally, the Lakers MUST not fall to 3 in the draft (or they will almost certainly get leapfrogged), and they are approaching the 10 win Nets, or they will lose their pick to the Sixers. YES the lakers are tanking this year. THEY definitely want this pick. Byron just has to make the right maneuvers to ensure they lock in the two (or even 1 spot).
Three wins in a row will not make upper management happy. Call that all conjecture if you want but I've watched the NBA my entire life: teams intentionally tank through the coaches and management.
That's enough for a bet. Suns have enough offensively for a bounceback against one of the NBA's worst, despite their recent struggles and injuries.
The pick:
Suns -1 over Lakers
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...i think you got the right side just based on the fact that its almost unconscionable to think the lakers cud win 3 in a short burst,hehe.....altho kobe has been on the improve of late,i think it wud help your play to have him go...unfortunately i see he is ruled out....im sure you have noticed that his teams play xtra hard and inspired when he sits as sort of an "we'll show you" attitude as he just aint well liked and his over-bearing personality stifles and suffocates players of limited talent and confidence whenever he is on court.
...fair players but not the guys you want to try and help you beat kobe and shaq in their prime.
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