Tonight Is The Ultimate Bounce Back Spot For The Nuggets

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3:09Welcome back to Bed MGM that I had here on Westwin-1 Sports, I'm Pat Boyle. Phone number to join the show is 310-840-4910. That's 310-840-4910. We'll get you caught up on the big NBA scores in college. Upscore is going on in just a minute but I want to talk about a game that's tipping off here in 20 minutes from now and it's a big one. It's a monster one in the Rocky Mountains in Denver. The nuggets hosting the Houston Rockets and you look at the NBA standings. This game is massive. The Rockets right now are 40 and 24. They are the three seed in the West. The nuggets are 39 and 26 so they're a game and a half worse than the Rockets and yet they are the six seed in the West and they only have a game advantage up on the Phoenix Suns. If the nuggets win tonight though, they move within a half of a game of the three seed and right now the Rockets at three, the Suns at seven, only two and a

4:10half games separate those five teams. Needless to say, it's a big one tonight. The nuggets are seven point favorites right now on Bed MGM so that's a pretty decently sized favorite for the Denver Nuggets. Total is 231 and a half. The head to head this year, the nuggets are two and one but every game, just about every game has been close. They haven't played each other though in three months. Back at the end of November, the Nuggets beat them 112-109 and then in mid of December, Nuggets beat them at OT, 128-125 and then five days later, the Rockets got their revenge and beat Denver 115-101 in terms of the injury news. Not much to tell you about. Dorian Finney Smith is out for Houston and Peyton Watson's out for Denver. But all the big stars are in Kevin DeRan, Alperin, Shingoon, Jamal Murray, Nicola Yokech. The thing about Denver, I like the nuggets in this game tonight. I think they win this game. If not by double digits, I think they'll cover.

5:11I think this is a comfortable win tonight for the Denver Nuggets because they're as healthy as they've been all season and I've been saying for the last couple of weeks. This is a Nuggets team that has basically been a 500 squad for the last, I don't know, month or so. But now they're fully healthy and if you were going to get Denver, you should have gotten them in the last couple of weeks because now Aaron Gordon's back. Cam Johnson's healthy. Christian Brown is healthy and of course you got Murray and Yokech. This is their normal starting five and they've only played a handful of games together this season. Aaron Gordon missed months with an injury. Cam Johnson was our Christian Brown was her in the beginning of the season. Yokech had the knee injury that cost him a month. So this is as healthy as they've been all year. And I still think the Denver Nuggets are a dark horse to win the Western Conference. I think it's going to be the Oklahoma City Thunder. But if I had to predict in a Western Conference Finals, if the Nuggets are a three seed or a six seed, I think they'll make a run to the Conference Finals to play the Denver Nuggets. And I think they win this game tonight. Now they haven't been that good at home this year. 17 and 13, which is not normally the case.

6:13You go and play in that altitude in Denver. I don't care if you play there, you know, dozens of times. When you do it, it's different. That error is different, right? They got the five to 5280 where however many feet of mile is the mile high city. They got to paint it everywhere. It is tough to play there. And it's even tougher in the scenario that the Houston Rockets find themselves in. Is the back the back and it's a third game and four nights for Houston. They played the Spurs back on Sunday. And then last night they beat the Raptors at home. So back to back, they got to travel to Denver. And I think this is a desperate spot for the Nuggets. They lost to the neck, they got smoked by the Knicks on Friday. And then they lose at the buzzer in Oklahoma City on Monday. So now you've got the nuggets that have lost two games in a row. They've only lost three games in a row once this season. And it was a stretch where they played the Knicks, the Thunder and the Pistons. Now the last two games that play the Knicks and the Thunder. And you could argue that the Rockets are just about as good as the Pistons. So this is going to be a big test.

7:14But I just think this is a spot where Denver plays probably their A game. And they get the win in this one. So I like the nuggets here are either these teams a threat to win the West. Again, I think Denver is a dark horse. I don't think the Rockets will win more than one series in the playoffs. And even winning one series would be a big win for this team. They go through stretches, man, where it is so evident. And it is so obvious that they are missing Fred Van Vley terribly. They are missing their point card. And far too often this year, their offense goes through droughts. Where they're lacking that point card. A men Thompson has done a nice job for most of the year doing it. But in the fourth quarter, you look at some of these games. The Rockets have lost. Their offensive identity goes out the window. It's basically just to rant, please hit 15 mid-range jumpshots and save us. Or it's, hey, Shen Goon, you got to be point center. And you got to either do it yourself. Or we got to hope that guys double team you.

8:15And then somebody's open for three. And a reach shepherd has done a real nice job coming off the bench for the Rockets. He's had a couple of big games where they end up closing with him in the lineup over a men Thompson. If reach shepherd has a night where he's shooting the ball well. But again, this is a starting five where you swap Cam Johnson from Michael Porter. This is a starting five for the Denver Nuggets that won an NBA title. And I think Aaron Gordon. He's looking better and better as he's come back from that long injury layoff. And, you know, I think Yokech is going to be a handful tonight. I think that he more than neutralizes Alperen Shen Goon. I mean, Yokech is the best player on the planet. So they have the advantage there. And I mean, look, I just, I think Kevin Durant, who's been playing really damn well since the all-star break. If there was a night where Kevin Durant maybe doesn't have it. Maybe it's, you know, Kevin Durant starts to feel like he's in his late 30s and those legs feel a little tired. It's on a night like tonight. Back to back third game and four nights playing at altitude, playing in Denver. So I like the nuggets to win this one. I wouldn't be surprised if they win this by 15 points or more.

9:18All right, let's get your caught up on the other games going on right now in the NBA. We had a big one in the Eastern Conference tonight between the Magic and the Caves. There's under six minutes left to go in the game. And Orlando is going on a big run right now. They've pulled ahead by double digits. The Magic League, the Cavaliers, one 10 to 99. And in this game, Donovan Mitchell's got 22 points. James Hardin's got 24 points. But for Orlando, Palo Boncaro's got 25, 8, and 7. Floating with a triple double. But at Desmond Bain, they made the big trade for in the offseason. And for so much of this season, Desmond Bains played well. But the Magic, they have taken a big step back. Remember, they tested the Celtics pretty damn good in the first round of the playoffs last year. The Magic were a team that was supposed to be along with the pistons. You know, these young guns that we're going to finish in the top four. Orlando with a win tonight, they basically get, they're right on the edge of top six in the East. So this is a massive game for the Magic if they can finish this thing off.

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