NBA Finals

The Chuck exercised some control and decided to take a hiatus from wagering. However, with the advent of the NBA finals tonight, I am back and better than ever. My last play was horrendous and I deserved to lose the 770 units I laid on Denver. With that loss, my new total stands at 6,535 units. I've had many days to ponder this matchup and I will play this game heavily.

When I was contemplating this series, I was looking at the matchups between the two teams and trying to identify any particular one that might pose a mismatch too difficult for one team to handle. Well, I have identified two. First, who the fuck is going to check Kobe? Pietrus? Not the best of the options but it will have to do. As egregious of a mismatch as that is, let me you ask you this. Who the fuck is going to check Dwight Howard? Andrew Bynum? Yeah, tell me how that one works out. This might be even more comical than Pietrus checking Kobe. Look, either matchup poses serious problems for the other team. As dominating as Kobe can be and maybe he can impose his will on this series but my money is going to be Dwight Howard in this game. This guy is monster and quite frankly, LA has no answers for this man. They can try to foul him like that genius Mike Brown attempted to do. By the way, how the hell does he still have his fucking job? I mean, I knowing stopping Howard is not easy but you sure as hell can come up with a better plan than fouling the man. But I digress. Phil is too smart to attempt any asinine approach that has already failed. He will deploy many bodies on Howard and try to wear him down. If the Magic can get outstanding perimeter support, I see them winning this game. As for Kobe, he's going to get his. What they have to do is stop Trevor Ariza and Gasol. Odom is a non factor and Fisher is nice point guard but what the Magic have to do is contain Kobe to 30 and stop Ariza. My gut feeling is that series goes six and the Magic will prevail. I look for Orlando to steal one of the first two games in LA. It can be game one or two, but with the number posted at 6, I doubt that it will matter. The Magic covers this number. The Chuck in his infinite wisdom has bet accordingly and put a princely sum of 1,000 units on the Orlando Magic +6. We'll see how that works out. Peace.