@ <font color="Orange"><font size="2">New York Knicks (26-34)</font></font> @ <font color="MediumTurquoise"><font size="2"> Denver Nuggets (32-28)</font></font> Previous Games Knicks 94 @ Clippers 96 Nuggets 92 @ Spurs 117 Streaks <font color="Orange">Knicks</font>: Lost 5 <font color="MediumTurquoise">Nuggets</font>: Lost 5 Standings <font color="Orange">Knicks</font> 26-34 (.433) 6th East 17.5 GB <font color="MediumTurquoise">Nuggets</font> 32-28 (.533) 8th West, 11.5 GB Probable Starting Lineups Stephon Marbury vs. Andre Miller Shandon Anderson vs. Voshon Lenard Tim Thomas vs. Carmelo Anthony Othella Harrington vs. Nene Kurt Thomas vs. Marcus Camby Sixth Men Earl Boykins vs. Penny Hardaway Injuries <font color="MediumTurquoise">Nuggets</font> -Francisco Elson (IL) -Jeff Trepagnier (IL) -Mark Pope (IL) <font color="Orange">Knicks</font> -Allan Houston (IL) -Cezary Trybanski (IL) Players To Watch Carmelo Anthony: 20.2 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 2.7 APG, 1.23 SPG Stephon Marbury: 20.9 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 8.7 APG, 1.68 SPG Keys To The Game <u>Nuggets</u> -Continue to give the ball to Carmelo. He is on fire. -Make Marbury have a bad game, and make the other Knicks score. -Limit the turnovers. Too many during this losing streak. -Andre and Voshon have to have big game's. Carmelo has been doing most of the scoring. <u>Knicks</u> -Find a way to stop Carmelo. -Get out to an early lead, the Nuggets are tired. -Limit the turnovers. -Marbury has to push the ball, and get that Nugget team tired on defence. cArMeLo's take The Nuggets are playing the worst basketball of the season, and the Knicks are slumping also. However, the Nuggets are tired after facing the Spurs yesterday. The Knicks are going to have to take advantage. And right now, I have such little faith in the Nuggets, I'll say the Knicks by 8.
Great Preview. But I take the Nuggets by 3. Melo is on fire as you say and IMO he will just be too much for the knicks.
Nuggets have more firepower than the injured Knicks and that will play an important part in the game tonight. Look for Nene to dominate Othella Harrington down low. Nuggets by 7.
Well, I think Tim Thomas to slow to keep up with Carmelo. Melo should have another big game, but Vo, or Dre have to have 15-20 point games, because Melo's doing most of the scoring right now.
Nuggets up 31-21 after one. Voshon has 8, 1, 1 Carmelo has 7, 1, 2 Nuggets shooting 62% Kurt Thomas has 6 and 5 Allan Houston (Didn't even know he was going to play) has 6, 1, 1 Knicks shooting 41% ---------------------------------- Nuggets up 52-43 at half Carmelo has 16, 2, 2 Voshon has 8, 2, 2 Nuggets shooting 50% Kurt Thomas has 12, 7, 1 Allan Houston has 8, 3, 1 Knicks shooting 44%
nice man, we needed this win... like melo said, five straight losses are tough to take... hopefully we can regain some winning momentum here and win games... we gottta play people harder because when we do we're a hard team to beat...
Francisco Elson was activated right before the game and started in place of the injured Camby. In 28 minutes of play he had 12 points (5-9 FG and 2-2 FT) and 8 rebounds. That's a really nice contribution from the rookie! In games where Elson started the Nuggets are 8-3.
I say Nuggets by 5, the Knicks are good, but Houston is just returning and will be a little slowed. I say Marbury and Melo duke it out in the scoring battle, and Kurt Thomas has a big game. Andre Miller in double digit assists for this one too
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting cArMeLo15:</div><div class="quote_post">Dude, this game was on Sunday. Lol, talk about clueless.</div> LOL I wasn't even paying attention, I didn't check the schedule so I though it was an upcoming game since the title said preview The Nuggets section isn't updated often is it, and it doesn't seem to get too much crowd
