Paul Bovi
NBA Playoffs Game Of The Year
Denver at Dallas
Play: Dallas -2
Under normal circumstances I would not opt in on a team down 0-3. But I'll make the exception here as you have a very angry Mavericks team, a possibly sympathetic group of officials who will likely favor a few calls to the side of Dallas, and a Nuggets team that may be feeling a wee bit satisfied in knowing that they will still have two home games to wrap up the series even if they were to go down to defeat here. Under normal circumstances, you would have Maverick suspensions for their failure to leave the court in a timely and orderly manner. The Mavericks were stalwarts at home this year in having lost only twice in AA Arena since February 12th, which was a 99- 92 setback to the Celtics. Those two losses were yesterdays's debacle and a 103 -101 nailbiter in which the Mavs shot 56% from the field versus the Mavericks 35% but Denver still managed to prevail due to a 37 to 18 free throw attempt disparity in favor of Dallas. Josh Howard did not play for the Mavs which hurt as Antoine Wright picked up some slack at SF and managed to brick all 7 of his shots in 30 minutes of play.I don't suspect a blow out here but the Mavs will get the victory by 6 points in my NBA Playoffs Game Of The Year!!
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NBA Playoffs Game Of The Year
Denver at Dallas
Play: Dallas -2
Under normal circumstances I would not opt in on a team down 0-3. But I'll make the exception here as you have a very angry Mavericks team, a possibly sympathetic group of officials who will likely favor a few calls to the side of Dallas, and a Nuggets team that may be feeling a wee bit satisfied in knowing that they will still have two home games to wrap up the series even if they were to go down to defeat here. Under normal circumstances, you would have Maverick suspensions for their failure to leave the court in a timely and orderly manner. The Mavericks were stalwarts at home this year in having lost only twice in AA Arena since February 12th, which was a 99- 92 setback to the Celtics. Those two losses were yesterdays's debacle and a 103 -101 nailbiter in which the Mavs shot 56% from the field versus the Mavericks 35% but Denver still managed to prevail due to a 37 to 18 free throw attempt disparity in favor of Dallas. Josh Howard did not play for the Mavs which hurt as Antoine Wright picked up some slack at SF and managed to brick all 7 of his shots in 30 minutes of play.I don't suspect a blow out here but the Mavs will get the victory by 6 points in my NBA Playoffs Game Of The Year!!
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