Great game between the 2 big surprises of the year so far!

New Orleans lead the Southwest Division before Dallas and San Antonio! and when you see them playing you can understand why,their last home wins were very impressive,killing their opponent at defense and working their great offense,C.Paul become one of NBA Finest PG and when Peja is shooting well its become very very hard to stop this team,inside West and Chandler are doing great work and they even improve their home Record to 13-7,winning 8 out of their last 10 home games.

The other huge surprise is Portland which leads the Northwest Division aboce Denver and Utah! ,leading by the great 2nd year player B.Roy which is also doing everything on court,but the big addition is LaMarcus Aldridge which his AVG rise to 17.3 PPG at this season.

With a huge boost from their 13 wins in araw,Portland continue to play great basketball,winning 7 of 11 games,includes 3out of 6 straight away games,this will be their last away games before going back home to play 6 straight home games.

The teams met 3 time so far,NO won at home while Portland won in the last 2 games,at Portland.

I rank New Orleans as the better team here,with more offensive options,and better defense team,another advantage should be in the paint with Chandler and West,in the last game Peja was out,and in the game before he shot 2-13,at home he will be the biggest approvment in NO,such as will lead them to an easy win.

pick: Orleans -6