The set-up: The season ended just a couple of months ago, and now the 2020/21 campaign gets underway. Strange times for sure. Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant and the Nets get ready to welcome Stephen Curry and the Warriors to Brooklyn. The Nets lost in five games to the Raptors in the Bubble, while the Warriors went just 15-50 last year. Golden State still has Curry on the team and it's loaded with talent, but this is not the same Warriors team which shot the lights out every single night and ran up the score. There's going to be a transition period here for Golden State once again this season, especially when Curry is on the bench. The Nets have plenty of talent as well, but chemistry in the early going will be an issue as well in my opinion. Especially for Brooklyn's bench players and under in a new system in Steve Nash.

The pick: I'll point out as well that Golden State has seen the total dip under the number in eight of its last 11 non-conference road games when the total in the contest is set at 230 points or higher. This number is a little high in my opinion.

This is a 10* TOTAL BLOOD-BATH on the UNDER Warriors/Nets.