OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has an NBA odds pick on the Los Angeles Lakers (-2) at Miami.
Reasoning: I’m sure everybody and their brother is going to be on the red hot Lakers against the ice cold Heat but I just don’t see that being the losing side and I’ll therefore play the role of what I expect to be the square side here.
The game may be down in South Beach but the way things have gone recently so what? This Miami team has obviously been horrific over the past few weeks and that has included the recent four game home losing streak. I do believe that Erik Spoelstra will turn this thing around as there is just too much talent for that to not happen with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade but I’m not so sure that this is the night for it to happen.
We all know how Miami doesn’t have an inside game and Los Angeles may be the worst matchup for them with their bigs. Gasol, Odom and Bynum are a huge frontcourt and an absolute mismatch for whomever the Heat throw out there. Yes Miami did win the first meeting a few months back at Staples and I really have no definitive answer as to how they did that but I can say that they were clearly a better team back then compared to what they have become right now.
The Heat are lacking a ton of confidence and cannot make any shots late. Now they face a team that hasn’t lost since the All-Star break, literally, led by the superstar of all superstars in Kobe Bryant.
Lebron and company will right the ship at some point. They just have to as the talent level is too high. But with Chris Bosh becoming more lost by the day I will clearly give the edge to the champions who are playing much much better right now.
Tonight could potentially be rock bottom for the Heat if they haven’t hit that already as LeBron has said.
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