Hey all,
Regular season thread was blah... once I kinda stopped posting I had a nice run for a bit but finished very uneven at the end. To be honest, the time just wasn't there consistently enough. With that being said, I think I'll have some plays here and there this postseason so I wanted go get something started and will have random takes as well..
Wednesday Play-In
LA Lakers -180 risking 2.5 units
The road will be tough moving forward for the Lakers but I still think they are a legit threat to win the West. I really do.. Obviously health is a big thing. We'll talk more about that in a bit. For this game, I would have the line more like 6.5/7. The league is wild, so I am gonna play the ML to be safe. I will look to perhaps freeroll this with a goodsize ML at some point. I mentioned +500 earlier but in reality I want to profit a unit on this game so I will need to see a 650 or so. We'll see... everything is fluid when I bet and I could potentially trade the game. Unless Chef goes for a bonkers 50 point game or something of the sort I expect the Lakers to cruise in the 2h to a comfortable win and get ready for the Suns.
1st Round Series Play
New York Knicks +100 2 units
I'll preface this by saying I am apt to change my mind at points in this series but I doubt I'll have to. I am getting even money on the team with homecourt advantage and whom I believe to be much better suited for a playoff series. I was high on Atlanta entering the year with a few of their moves but this team wasn't that impressive to me overall. Yes, you can say they finished the season strong (won 7 of last 8) but the only two that were impressive were Portland and Phoenix. The game vs the Suns was the night after the wild OT game Phoenix had in Cleveland. That was no surprise to myself. I am not a fan of the Hawks style for this series at all...
The Knicks play hard every night and have an MVP candidate that just keeps getting better and better. This team will get an extra surge from some fans at MSG who are so damn thirsty for some playoff basketball... this is going to be fun...
New York won all three games by 5,11 and 10 points in the season series.
The key matchup is obviously who guards Trae at both the beginning (to avoid a hot start) and in the 4th quarter. I trust the Knicks coaching staff much more here.
I have been wanting this matchup and it happened... Knicks in 6 and we get a fun Sixers and Knicks series in round 2.
Regular season thread was blah... once I kinda stopped posting I had a nice run for a bit but finished very uneven at the end. To be honest, the time just wasn't there consistently enough. With that being said, I think I'll have some plays here and there this postseason so I wanted go get something started and will have random takes as well..
Wednesday Play-In
LA Lakers -180 risking 2.5 units
The road will be tough moving forward for the Lakers but I still think they are a legit threat to win the West. I really do.. Obviously health is a big thing. We'll talk more about that in a bit. For this game, I would have the line more like 6.5/7. The league is wild, so I am gonna play the ML to be safe. I will look to perhaps freeroll this with a goodsize ML at some point. I mentioned +500 earlier but in reality I want to profit a unit on this game so I will need to see a 650 or so. We'll see... everything is fluid when I bet and I could potentially trade the game. Unless Chef goes for a bonkers 50 point game or something of the sort I expect the Lakers to cruise in the 2h to a comfortable win and get ready for the Suns.
1st Round Series Play
New York Knicks +100 2 units
I'll preface this by saying I am apt to change my mind at points in this series but I doubt I'll have to. I am getting even money on the team with homecourt advantage and whom I believe to be much better suited for a playoff series. I was high on Atlanta entering the year with a few of their moves but this team wasn't that impressive to me overall. Yes, you can say they finished the season strong (won 7 of last 8) but the only two that were impressive were Portland and Phoenix. The game vs the Suns was the night after the wild OT game Phoenix had in Cleveland. That was no surprise to myself. I am not a fan of the Hawks style for this series at all...
The Knicks play hard every night and have an MVP candidate that just keeps getting better and better. This team will get an extra surge from some fans at MSG who are so damn thirsty for some playoff basketball... this is going to be fun...
New York won all three games by 5,11 and 10 points in the season series.
The key matchup is obviously who guards Trae at both the beginning (to avoid a hot start) and in the 4th quarter. I trust the Knicks coaching staff much more here.
I have been wanting this matchup and it happened... Knicks in 6 and we get a fun Sixers and Knicks series in round 2.