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Starters
PG Smush Parker
SG Kobe Bryant
SF Lamar Odom
PF Kwame Brown
C Chris Mihm

Bench
Aaron McKie
Devean George
Brian Cook
Andrew Bynum
Stanislav Medvedenko
Luke Walton

Coach: Phil Jackson

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Starters
PG Andre Miller
SG Voshon Lenard
SF Carmelo Anthony
PF Kenyon Martin
C Marcus Camby

Bench
Greg Buckner
Eduardo Najera
Earl Boykins
DerMarr Johnson
Francisco Elson

Injured
Nene

Coach: George Karl

The Nuggets are playing a back to back game coming off a loss to the Spurs. We also lost Nene to injury and are with out our head coach for tonights game against the Lakers. Please feel welcomed Lakers fans and Nuggets fans to make your game predictions here, and add any insight about the up coming game tonight.

I predict the Nuggets to rebound from the loss against the Spurs and win tonight in a good game.

Nuggets 101

Lakers 96

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2008 USA Men's Olympic Basketball Team
Carmelo Anthony, Carlos Boozer, Chris Bosh, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Jason Kidd, Chris Paul, Tayshaun Prince, Michael Redd, Dwyane Wade, and Deron Williams.
Head Coach: Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University
Assistant Coach: Jim Boeheim, Syracuse University
Assistant Coach: Mike D'Antoni, New York Knicks
Assistant Coach: Nate McMillan, Portland Trail Blazers

Ghiman

Good luck Denver fans, but i'm prediciting a Laker win tonight!

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nbanoitall

Its in Denver, we should control the boards so I think the lakers are going to have a hard time stopping the fast break. I assume we will likely come out early and take a decent lead. Then we will either blow you out or hit an infamous denver scoring slump (which wont happen if Lenard gets streaky like he does). If that happens Kobe will have a chance to bring LA back into the game. Odom is going to be the odd man out of this game. He wont connect on a high percentage from outside, and we have fast bigs that can stay will him if he tries to go to the basket, and even block his shot a few times.

Regardless if denver hits a slump parker or sasha is going to have a lot of fun guarding boykins. When he gets on the floor I predict better ball movement actually, yes he is going to pass and hit some open mid ranger jumpers. Hopefully Johnson can get in the act too and contribute in this one.

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Timmons

Nugs need to get the crowd involved tonight and that should not be difficult.

Early reports indicate that Linus Klieza will be activated to replace Nene, but Russell is also a canidate.

Denver needs to get out and run and try to slow Kobe down.

I'm interested to see what Phil has done thus far and if Lamar and Kwame will be effective against Camby, Najera, and KMart.

I'll steer clear from any predictions, but the Nuggets being at home should propell them to .500 (1-1)!

Also, how many will Melo put up? He looks great!

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G-Force

The Nuggets bounce back from last night's loss and win in front of the home fans, holding off a Laker charge in the final two minutes.

Nuggets 96
Lakers 91

G-Force

23AJ

News regarding Martin.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...ball&type=lgns

Doesn't sound good at all. I'm just hoping K-Marts knee will work it's self out, and he will be fine in the long run. However Kenyon saying he isn't sure he can walk or not in the morning sounds bad, and makes me think this could be bad. Tonights game will be telling if he plays, but isnt' effective. Or if he plays and is in good form, would be a great sign. However he may not even play in tonights game. If anyone finds out Martins game status before the game starts post it here.

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2008 USA Men's Olympic Basketball Team
Carmelo Anthony, Carlos Boozer, Chris Bosh, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Jason Kidd, Chris Paul, Tayshaun Prince, Michael Redd, Dwyane Wade, and Deron Williams.
Head Coach: Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University
Assistant Coach: Jim Boeheim, Syracuse University
Assistant Coach: Mike D'Antoni, New York Knicks
Assistant Coach: Nate McMillan, Portland Trail Blazers

DANNY

sorry but kobe will score 50 on your team today and WIN WIN WIN

I CAN SEE IT!!

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CDRacingZX6R

All I can say is "ouch", man you guys have the worest luck on season openers....

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Kirk20

Tough luck on the injury for the Nuggets ... But I still don't see the Lakers winning tonight, as much as I want to.

RoddneyThaRippa

Can anyone believe we lost that game? I mean, wow. Unbelievable.

G-Force

Hey, I feel for you guys. My Sonics fell apart in the fourth quarter and managed to blow an 11 point fourth quarter lead to Sam Cassel and the Clippers.

G-Force

cpawfan

Horrible execution and IMHO horrible coaching. Nuggets couldn't up the tempo in the second half like they needed to and they didn't adjust to the Lakers defense.

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RoddneyThaRippa

A few comments:

-Carmelo had a good game. He had a tough battle with George, one I thought he ended up winning. Unfortunately, he broke down on that last possession before overtime. He really panicked. But still, good game.

-Marcus Camby is one of those players who just knows how to win. He showed it last year and showed it tonight. I'm not sure if his foot is still bothering him, but he isn't doing as much in the paint - it seems like he isn't contesting as many shots. Still, he's a force even though he's probably injured.

-We really need a scorer on the team other than Carmelo. I suppose Earl could fill this role, but he's so inconsistent and takes shots in bunches. As ugly as this halfcourt offense is, it really helps when you have a player you can go to consistently that can score at any given time. Carmelo needs someone to help him out here. At times, Andre can fill this role, but he's just too inconsistent in his play. I wonder if DerMarr or Hodge can't help out here. DerMarr has already shown ability to create offense. Watching Hodge in college, I think he could do it too. Unfortunately, the way we're running the lineups, I'm not sure if either of these guys will get a chance.

-What is Kenyon contributing out there? I've been really disappointed with his play and effort so far.

-Voshon Lenard has surprised me in the first two games. He hasn't hogged the ball, like two years ago, and he's played within the flow of the offense. It's nice to have a guy who can knock down shots.

-I know it's early in the season, but we'll have to figure out something with the offense. Either you run or you don't; Phoenix committed to the run last year, period. None of this in between bull****. If we wanna run, fine. Then quit walking the damn ball up the court and run the ball. If we wanna be uptempo, fine. Then take advantage of opportunities to run the ball and figure something out in the halfcourt. Our halfcourt set is among the ugliest in the league. So much standing around, poor decisions, etc. I mean, you don't have to be highly organized like Sacramento to have a decent halfcourt offense. At the very least, we need to start calling players earlier in the shot clock and work off that. But right now, we can't get anywhere with this offense.

RoddneyThaRippa