The Bucks are back. I won with them when they throttled Charlotte in their last game. Charlotte is weak and it allowed Doc Rivers' team the opportunity to work through some of their issues and restore their confidence. The 36 point blowout victory followed by 2 days of rest was exactly that they needed.

Doc Rivers said this after the last game: "I thought we set a tone defensively. We were flying around tonight. Our energy was high." Now the Bucks will get a chance to host the defending champions. The timing couldn't be better. The Nuggets just lost their last game by 29 points. They are 7-13-1 against the spread, as road favorites.

The Nuggets beat the Bucks in Denver this season, just as they did last year. Last season, the Bucks beat them here at Milwaukee. Tonight, they will do it again.