NBA - Oklahoma City v Cleveland

13 December 2009

Preview By Tipster Rahul

Handicap +3.5 : -3.5

Cleveland Cavaliers need to start dominating games more especially against lower opposition and not doing so will make LeBron James further wonder what he is still doing in this Cleveland team come end of the season.

After re-inforcing the squad with players like Parker, Shaq, Powe, Moon, the team has still failed to live up to expectations from pre-season. People thought Cleveland along with a re-inforced Orland were going to be the toughest teams to contend with this season, but both teams have had some mixed results so far.

Oklahoma is turning out to be the same as Cleveland was 3-4 years ago as being the Kevin Durant show. They are slowly developing to be a much better ball club, but still depend heavily night in and night out on Durant to deliver the goods for them.

The defense among the 2 teams is going to be key. Both teams have been giving up 95 points, and it will be up to the 2 star players to shut the other one out. James has the advantage over Durant as he is a bit more physical and gets more block shots in, and should be be able to shut Durant out, things can definitely work in his favor.

Cleveland to continue and start building a winning streak.