Nuggets/Lakers

The Lakers can go ahead and notch up another win.  This Denver team was no match for the Lakers last year being swept in the playoffs.  The addition of Bynum and the subtraction of Camby for the Nuggets spells doom.  The fact that Denver will likely be playing without Melo on the second game of a back to back coming from playing the Clippers doesn't help.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, Camby is a solid role player and plays good defense.  The knock on the Nuggets last year was the fact that they didn't play defense.  Well, that was directed at everyone but Camby.  So what does Denver do?  They give Camby to the Clippers for basically nothing.  This will be a good test of the Laker interior defense.  Iverson is cutting and slashing guard.  It's been proven time after time that he can't win games by himself, and if he gets shut down, then what?  The Nuggets will play small ball starting two power forwards.  Nene and K-Mart aren't exactly the most aggressive rebounders and pair that with that fact that are matching up with Gasol and Bynum, and you have a miss match on both ends of the court.  But....the turnover prone Lakers will have to take care of the ball because Denver can work well in the open court.  Denver managed to rack up 12 steals against the Jazz in their opener.  If they can manage 20+ they may have a chance.  

Prediction:  Lakers by 20+ in another blowout.