The Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers will face off in the second game of the new 2023-23 NBA regular season.
Tournament – NBA;
Date – 19.10.2022;
Kick-Off – 03:00 UK;
Venue – Chase Center (18.064);
City – San Francisco, California, USA.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #1 – Handicap (-4.5) for Warriors – 1.75.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #2 – Total Points Over 219.5 – 1.52.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #3 – James Rebounds Over 7.5 – 2.16.
The Lakers have had a poor start to the new season lately. As a rule, they lose their opening games. This meeting will probably be no exception. Compared to last season, there hasn’t been much change in the Lakers’ roster. We doubt that Ham’s side will pull out a win from San Francisco.
More recently, the teams scored 245 in a head-to-head encounter. It’s likely that history will repeat itself. The Lakers aren’t exactly at their best defensively, though.
James is averaging 8.2 rebounds in the regular season.
The reigning NBA champions begin the new season. The Golden State Warriors managed to outscore the Boston Celtics (4-2) in last season’s final.
The Warriors crossed three more play-off stages before reaching the final and winning overall. The Mavericks (4-1), Memphis (4-2) and Nuggets (4-1) were beaten at various stages from the 1/8 to the semi-finals. The Warriors finished 3rd in the regular season with 53 wins and 29 losses.
In preseason games, the Warriors had two wins over the Trail Blazers (131-98) and Wizards (96-87). They also lost to the Lakers (121-124) and Nuggets (112-119).
The Warriors had 4.5 blocks on average last season.
The Warriors won all four head-to-head meetings last season.
The Lakers failed last year’s NBA championship. The team failed to make the association playoffs. Not only that, but the Los Angeles Lakers did not even make the play-ins.
In the regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers finished 11th. In 82 games, they had 34 wins and 48 losses.
Six preseason games were played before the start of the regular season. The Lakers lost most of them. They lost to Sacramento Kings (75-35), Phoenix Suns (115-139) and Minnesota Timberwolves (99-114), (113-118). The only victory was over the Warriors (124 121).
The Lakers had 5.2 blocks on average last season.
In our opinion, the teams will take to the field with the following line-ups:
Golden State Warriors: Stephen Curry – Klay Thompson – Andrew Wiggins – Draymond Green – Kevon Looney.
Los Angeles Lakers: Patrick Beverley – Austin Reaves – Damian Jones – LeBron James – Anthony Davis.
Andre Iguodala (Out), Moses Moody (Day-to-day) and Patrick Baldwin Jr. (Day-to-day) are listed as injured for the Golden State Warriors.
Troy Brown Jr. (Out), Dennis Schroder (Out), Thomas Bryant (Out) and Russell Westbrook (Day-to-day) are listed as injured for the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Warriors have not scored more than 115 points in 3 of their last 5 games. We offer to bet on “Warriors Points Under 115.5” with odds of 1.90.
The fixture will be played at Chase Center (18.064), San Francisco, California, USA.
This starting whistle will sound on the 19th of October, 2022, at 03:00 UK Time.
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