You can see the worry on Melo's Face!
A lot of interesting points of views from the 3 of Yahoo’s NBA “experts”:
Yahoo Sports – “Seems counterintuitive, right? Let me put it this way: If the Lakers had played against the Rockets the same way that they played against the Jazz, even most of the wins (over Utah) would be losses (to Houston). The defense has improved dramatically; it wasn’t always 100%, but it was mostly quite good, and whenever L.A. felt the pressure they cranked it up to an unbelievable level. They’ve also stopped giving up big leads in the fourth quarter. So yes, there’s room for improvement — but don’t overlook the fact that they have already improved significantly.”
“The major challenges for the Nuggets: not having home-court for the first time this post-season, facing a team with a lot of length, and facing an attacking/low-post style team. Oh, and did I mention that Kobe Bryant (“MVP … MVP”) averaged 31 points per game against the Nuggets this season?”
“I don’t want to hear about how much the Nuggets bigs will walk all over these guys, and (this is something I’ve heard in more than one place) how much they “love contact.” They don’t. Nene wants to go around you. Kenyon Martin and Chris Anderson want to dunk over you. They don’t want to back you down, and go up with the hook. And they don’t want the rebound unless they can jump over and around you to get it.”
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