And I think, with Josh Howard, the Mavs are much more talented and deeper than Cleveland, it’s just that Cleveland has that guy on the team. I can’t remember his name. If you switch Dirk and LeBron, they’d be favourites for the Championship.

I can’t see Dampier playing a lot of minutes. I figure they’ll go small most of the time, because he can’t really guard either front court player. I’m guessing he’ll start off on Bosh, but then move to the bench fairly quickly.

I think the Raptors have a chance to win, but I just think they’ll have a much tougher time tonight.

1) First and foremost, how well our back-court will do against JJ Barea, Jason Terry, and Rody Beaubois. These guys are either fast or ridiculously fast. We need to contain them.

2) How well Bosh & Bargs exploit mismatches. Bargs is too fast and too good a shooter for Dampier, and should be able to post up the much smaller Marion. If Bargs tries to play an outside game against Marion, this game will be Turnover-ville. If Bosh might have a tough time trying to muscle his way around with Dampier on the floor, so we need him to draw as many fouls as possible.

If we can do a solid job on #1, and a good-to-great job on #2, we can win this game.