Season Stats: New Jersey: PPG: 87.8 Opp PPG: 87.1 FG%: .425 Opp FG%: .429 RPG: 38.1 Opp RPG: 42.6 Milwaukee: PPG: 95.3 Opp PPG: 93.0 FG%: .437 Opp FG%: .428 RPG: 42.5 Opp RPG: 44.5 New Jersey's Concerns/ Milwaukee's Strengths: 1. New Jersey is having problems with high-scoring teams. They lost to Memphis and Sacramento among others. 2. Milwaukee is coming off a 106 point performance against Atlanta in the Hawks' home floor. 3. New Jersey can't sustain it's intensity for one whole game. It seems as if they're strong in one half and weak on the other. 4. Michael Redd's hot hands (averaging 22.2 ppg). 5. Joe Smith is averaging 3.2 offensive boards per game. Milwaukee's Concerns/ New Jersey's Strengths: 1. A rookie PG (TJ Ford) against a battle-tested Jason Kidd. 2. Tim Thomas and Toni Kukoc's injury. He averaged 17ppg in last year's playoff series against the Nets. Toni averaged 17ppg and 7apg against the Nets in last year's regular season. 3. Jason Collins is averaging 11.0ppg in the last 5 games and leads the team in FT% with 88.2%. 4. Can Joe Smith guard the athletic Kenyon Martin? 5. Richard Jefferson is coming from a 24-10 performace. Can Mason contain him? Key Match-Up Michael Redd: 22.2 ppg 6 rpg 2.8 apg Kerry Kittles: 11.3 ppg 3.6 apg 2.7 apg This is the Nets' key to a win. Michael Redd can light it up anytime in the perimeter. It will be up to Kerry to defend the perimeter against Redd. If he can shut out Redd, the game is over. Prediction: Talent-wise, New Jersey should have won their games against Memphis and Utah. It seems they're lacking heart and intensity to win the games. Compared to those two, the Bucks are not an intense team. They're being led by the hot-shooting of Michael Redd. Jason Kidd will dominate Ford at the point and he'll show signs of being a rookie. If they can contain Redd to around 20 points, they have a good chance to win the game. Key injuries will hurt the Bucks so again, I'm going with New Jersey to win this game 97-90. On a Side Note: 1. The Nets dominated the Bucks in the Swamp winning the last four games at home. 2. The Nets are looking to avoid a five game losing streak that they never had in nearly three years. NBA.com Preview
No way for Milwaukee to win this one. Hey purehoops Martin has been a beast off the boards these past few games. This came after you said that he's not doing well rebound-wise. heheeh. Say it again for goodluck
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting InNETSweTrust:</div><div class="quote_post">No way for Milwaukee to win this one. Hey purehoops Martin has been a beast off the boards these past few games. This came after you said that he's not doing well rebound-wise. heheeh. Say it again for goodluck</div> Here Ill say this... Kmart will never be as good as Garnett.
