Andrew Bynum=No Championship

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Sorry...i regurgitated the wrong info. They had beaten them 9 straight and have beaten them now 10 of 11. Great match up.

A side note. On the game they lost, there were travel issues and they didnt get to the hotel until 4 a.m and were playing their 3 game in four nights...at denver no less.

You don't get excuses in the NBA. When the Lakers beat Denver the first time this season, Iverson was still there and Billups wasn't and the Nuggets had played the night before in LA and had to travel to Denver while the Lakers were already in Denver waiting on them.

I think that from a physical standpoint, the Nuggets have a chance to match up with the Lakers only because Bynum is not playing as big as he was before. But I don't think the Nuggets have the mental makeup to beat them. I was starting to think that maybe they had discovered what they needed to do but watching those last three games against the Mavs told me otherwise. They were too easily drawn into playing the kind of game the Mavs want to play and as Karl said, they started trying to win games with their offense instead of their defense. If they try to do that against LA, they will be beaten pretty easily.