The New York Knicks will open up the season against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday, November 2nd. The first thought would be: How do the Knicks contain such a dominant force in Lebron James? The Knicks have always been good at guarding Lebron James. Last year, Quentin Richardson got under his skin and forced him to shoot outside jumpshots–something he had trouble doing all year. Quentin Richardson is the Knicks best perimeter defender and controversially their best overall defender. The answer to this question is let him shoot: Basically there is no answer. Lebron James can shoot all he wants but he can’t single handedly beat the Knicks. For that reason, I am picking the Knicks to win this, 94-87. The Cavs are coming off a blowout defeat to the Dallas Mavericks at home during the season opener, 92-74. Lebron James was held to 10 points. If the Knicks can focus on the other four nobodys on that team, they can come away with a victory at start off the season 1-0 BABY.
Other scores around the Atlantic:
The Nets beat the Bulls 112-103.
The Raptors beat the Sixers 106-97.
The Knicks beat the Cavs 143-89….Oh, my bad, I was just predicting the inevitable.
The Matchup is as follows:
PG: Daniel Gibson v. Stephon Marbury mhmm….domination
SG: Larry Hughes v. Jamal Crawford
F: Drew Gooden v. Quentin Richardson
F: Lebron James v. Zach Randolph
C: Z. Ilgauskas v. Eddy Curry
