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Watching Denver play defense is mind-boggling. When Luke Walton can drive at your big man and Marcus Camby responds by standing flatfooted and not rotating at him and putting his body out in front you know you got problems. Carmello Anthony often stands upright on defense and has his mind more on outrunning his opponent down court for fast break points than defending his man and rotating to help his teammates. I think the Nuggets definition of help defense is reaching with their arms and not moving their legs. It's disgusting to look at for purists of the game. The Nuggets are not going to beat the Lakers with their regular season gameplan of running and gunning and outrunning their opponents on the offensive end for easy hoops because the Lakers are hustling back. The Nuggets have not shown the ability to stop both Pau and Kobe and the Lakers are the play in game 3 +1. Take LA Lakers +1.