(40-16) <div align="center">At</div> (29-26) Where: Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI When: 8:00 EST TV: Milwaukee and WI: Fox Sports Net North Minnesota: Fox Sports Net North Probable Starters: Center: MN: Ervin Johnson MIL: Brian Skinner Power Foward: MN: Kevin Garnett MIL: Joe Smith Small Foward: MN: Latrell Sprewell MIL: Desmond Mason Shooting Guard: MIN: Trenton Hassell MIL: Michael Redd Point Guard: MIN: Sam Cassell MIL: TJ Ford Head Coach: MIN: Flip Saunders MIL: Terry Porter Sixth Men: MIN: Wally Szczerbiak MIL: Keith Van Horn Matchup to Watch: vs. This should be a fun matchup to watch. TJ is explosive passer, Sammy is the sure shot scoring PG. Bucks old PG vs Bucks New PG. Injuries: Bucks: NONE Timberwolves: Ndudi Ebi: Pattella Tendonitis OUT Season Series: Game 1 of Season TWolves Won 95-89 in Minnesota Last Games: MIN: Lost vs San Antonio 96-94 MIL: Beat Washington 113-85 My Input and Prediction: Bucks won impressivly Sunday, Wolves lost a heartbreaker to a Conf rival. Bucks have the best home record in the Eastern Conference and have beat San Antonio, Indiana, Detroit, and New Jersey at home. The Wolves have never seen PG TJ Ford since he sat out game one with an ankle sprain. For the Bucks to win Joe Smith and the rest of the big men must contain Kevin Garnett, no one can stop him, just don't let him get 40 and 20, you can pencil him in for 20 and 10. Redd must be shooting well as well. Cassell and EJ will get a warm welcome in there return to Milwaukee. Spree's homecoming as well, grew up in Milwaukee I will be there and the Bradley Center will be rocking, I predict a close game..... Wolves by 4 (I hope not :mrgreen: )
Should certainly be a good game, Bucks are one of the best home teams in the NBA, they feed off the home crowd and have beaten some very good teams including the San Antonio Spurs. Bucks certainly can't afford to have Sprewell going off or they will be in trouble. Bucks will need to run at every possible chance.
With Olowokandi back at full strength, and considering the Timberwolves are the best road team in the NBA, I say the Wolves take this one by 8.
Should be a good game to watch. However, I just can't see Bucks winning this game, even though they are a very good team at home. As you said in your preview, Kevin Garnett can't be stopped. Should still be close and fun to watch though. Timberwolves by 5.
My two favorite teams going at, gotta love it. The Bucks are a great home team, as mentioned, but the Wolves are just better all around. I expect Olowokandi to be a big factor in this game, because the Bucks don't have that great of a center. Sprewell vs. Redd should be fun to watch, and I expect Sprewell to come back with a vengence after the Spurs game. Will be a good game, in my opinion, but I will say Wolves by 3.
Skinner is averaging more PPG and RPG than Kandi Man, and they both missed time with injuries and have played similar amounts of games, so Bucks do have a C like Kandi, if not better
Have you seen Kandi play defense? Skinner will be lucky to get 2 points off of him. And if we are going by points per game, then Ben Wallace must suck. And most of the stats by Skinner is from the Eastern Conference "centers".
Since the Bucks are one of the best home teams, this game should be closer than expected. The Bucks must get off to a fast start and run at all times. Otherwise, KG and Co. will take over the game. They are too strong for the Bucks to go at it for 48 minutes.
The Bucks might put up a challange, but the Wolves should have this game if they can keep it together. The Wolves should have won the last few games, and came out short in the fourth. Well see how they do tonight. Wolves by 7.
Poor TJ Hope the guy's ok Class act as expected this was a good game to watch. Terry Porter's rotation personally cost the Bucks the game. Leaving Van Horn on the bench most of the 3rd quarter after lighting the Wolves up in the 2nd quarter was a mistake, leaving Redd on the bench too long was also a huge mistake when making that 4th quarter run. Bucks were due for their run and they clearly claimed a huge comeback. Van Horn played so well, couldn't miss most of the night. He should be starting straight away.
AllNet that is exactly what I was thinking at the game, Redd was on fire in the 1st, 15 pts, then Porter sat him down almost the whole 2nd quarter, when KVH took over
