The Official ScottsPicks.com Blog - A Sports Handicappers Blog » Kobe Bryant http://www.scottspicks.com/blog ScottsPicks.com owner, Scott Endsley blogs about sports Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:54:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The 2009 NBA Finals – A Sports Handicappers Look http://www.scottspicks.com/blog/the-2009-nba-finals-a-sports-handicappers-look http://www.scottspicks.com/blog/the-2009-nba-finals-a-sports-handicappers-look#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:23:07 +0000 Scott http://www.scottspicks.com/blog/?p=57 Well we didn’t get the Lakers v Cavs final many wanted and final I predicted. But I do believe that from a sports handicappers perspective we have some advantages. First, the Lakers are a very popular team and will get a lot of action from “fans” as much as gamblers. This tends to push the line just a bit to favor the Magic as the sportsbooks look to balance this tendency a bit. Adding to this factor is that the Magic remain an under rated team. A lot has been talked about and written about how Orlando was perfect (and maybe only) team to be Cleveland but they aren’t that good. Seems to me if that’s true they are a tough match up for LA as well. So I see value with Orlando plus the points, at least early on in the series. We’ll continue to make our picks looking for this added value with the Magic who few are giving a chance to win the series. We look for the Lakers to simply have too much in the end and win this series in 6 games but no game will likely be easy.

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]]> http://www.scottspicks.com/blog/the-2009-nba-finals-a-sports-handicappers-look/feed 0 Cavs on the Brink http://www.scottspicks.com/blog/cavs-on-the-brink http://www.scottspicks.com/blog/cavs-on-the-brink#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 15:48:07 +0000 Scott http://www.scottspicks.com/blog/?p=55 The dream match up of LeBron vs Kobe in the NBA Finals is going take a miracle now. The Cavs go down 3 games to 1 last night in Orlando. In another game that game down to the final seconds and this time LeBron didn’t hit the shot – it was a very tough shot but a decent look. Although tested it appears the Lakers are the superior team and will prevail in the West but it hasn’t been easy. For Cleveland the Magic were just the exact wrong match up and it’s going to cost us the James vs Bryant final we all wanted – not ALL of us I guess, but you know what I mean.

Maybe I’m selling the Cavs short. Maybe they can be the rare breed of team that comes back from down 3 games to 1. They do have home court for 2 of the 3 must win games. The problem is – the games have just been too close to believe the Cavs can find 3 straight wins. I’ll continue to root for the Cavs v Lakers finals (only partially because it’s what I predicted several weeks ago) and enjoy watching Kobe v LeBron.

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