Rockets - 1 1/2 (rio)
Rockets will play there first home game with steve francis since hes injury, while im far from the biggest fan in the world of francis there should be a lot of extra energy around the arena for this game. Thomas is also a go for tonight, and helps them in a lot of ways both scoring and rebounding. Theres lots of good things that came out of the the francis injury, they found out guys like torres, griffin, norris and brown can play add that to there core group finally being healthy (there better without rice) and its a pretty decent team talent wise.
Pistons have only one win out west this year and that was vs memphis early on in the year, theyve lost 7 in a row on the road and 8 of 9 overall. They also were beat soundly in all 3 of there back to back road games of late, by the magic with a hurt tmac, gs and sea.
Francis is expected to see well over 20 minutes this game, and play both halves. Atkins cant keep anyone out of the lane and thats been the pistons biggest problem all year. Of course its hard on the defense when you have to collapse and help but its worse for the pistons a bad rebounding team to begin with because it gets them out of postion to box out. Houston has 3 pgs that are lightning fast and will live in the lane this game. Pistons have only 1 win in there last 10 ats, and none in there last 7 ats.
Im also gonna be on dallas if finley plays, if he doesnt i may still take them but im on them for sure if he goes and the line doesnt jump too high.
50-23 ytd all sides
money lines: 1-1 +120
[This message has been edited by dnuggets (edited 01-03-2002).]
Rockets will play there first home game with steve francis since hes injury, while im far from the biggest fan in the world of francis there should be a lot of extra energy around the arena for this game. Thomas is also a go for tonight, and helps them in a lot of ways both scoring and rebounding. Theres lots of good things that came out of the the francis injury, they found out guys like torres, griffin, norris and brown can play add that to there core group finally being healthy (there better without rice) and its a pretty decent team talent wise.
Pistons have only one win out west this year and that was vs memphis early on in the year, theyve lost 7 in a row on the road and 8 of 9 overall. They also were beat soundly in all 3 of there back to back road games of late, by the magic with a hurt tmac, gs and sea.
Francis is expected to see well over 20 minutes this game, and play both halves. Atkins cant keep anyone out of the lane and thats been the pistons biggest problem all year. Of course its hard on the defense when you have to collapse and help but its worse for the pistons a bad rebounding team to begin with because it gets them out of postion to box out. Houston has 3 pgs that are lightning fast and will live in the lane this game. Pistons have only 1 win in there last 10 ats, and none in there last 7 ats.
Im also gonna be on dallas if finley plays, if he doesnt i may still take them but im on them for sure if he goes and the line doesnt jump too high.
50-23 ytd all sides
money lines: 1-1 +120
[This message has been edited by dnuggets (edited 01-03-2002).]
