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At 9:00PM in the Pepsi Center
Starting for the Nuggets
At Point Guard #7 Chauncey Billups
At Shooting Guard #30 Dahntay Jones
At Small Forward #15 Carmelo Anthony
At Power Forward #4 Kenyon Martin
At Center #31 Nene
Key bench players for the Nuggets
#11 Chris Andersen (PF-C)
#1 JR Smith (G-F)
#25 Anthony Carter (PG)
Starting for the Pacers
At Point Guard #1 Jarrett Jack
At Shooting Guard #6 Marquis Daniels
At Small Forward #33 Danny Granger
At Power Forward #3 Troy Murphy
At Center #55 Roy Hibbert
Key bench players for the Pacers
#5 TJ Ford (PG)
#25 Brandon Rush (G-F)
#10 Jeff Foster (F-C)
#8 Rasho Nesterovic (C)
Key Matchup
Two very explosive scoring forwards. Anthony is a scoring machine, and can score anywhere on the floor. If I were coaching, Granger would be guarding him. Daniels is way too thin to be guarding someone like Anthony, though Jim O'Brien won't be smart enough to notice that. Granger isn't a piece of cake to defend either, so this is a very close matchup. I expect Granger to win this matchup, though.