Alright,
We are officially through 2 games in each series and I don't think anyone could have predicted where we are going into the weekend!
The West is somewhat normal, albeit we have some injury issues in one series.
Let's start there -- I think Ant's ankle will worsen after the meds/adrenaline wear off. I hope not, but we'll see. He seemed to get some rhythm in the 4th quarter and finished with 13 points in the 2h.
Curry status is still up in the air till next week.
This series still has plenty of ebbs n flows coming. Minnesota needs to lean on their defense on the road and stay aggressive going to the basket on offense.
Lemme tangent real quick and tell you my two leans right now for Friday...
Cleveland TT over
Oklahoma City TT over
I said before the series that I would target okc tt's a lot in different aspects. The bottom line is this --Denver defense is NOT good and we saw that the other night. I expect excellent pace in Denver as well.
Cleveland in a must win game. They have scored well in both games, but especially the other night until complacency set in. They have to stave off a wild crowd and a Pacers team that's riding high. I don't know if they win, but I know they will fight to the bitter end. I simply don't see them winning a low scoring affair.
119/116 are the current #s there.
I lean OKC game and think the game at Indy is a coin flip. We'll revisit that after morning injury news comes in.
Saturday at MSG will be just an incredible scene. I don't care for a 330 start but that is life. That line has went up to 5.5 with a total of 205. I can't believe we're sitting here with Bostons season on the line. But, here we are.
My prediction for the two games at MSG is this -- one blowout and one final possession game.
Do we see an over? Perhaps with a venue change and the fact that these teams are due to shoot better. Credit the defense, both ways, but shots will drop a bit better as well.
Still thinking about angles for tomorrow night but those are my initial two leans.
Capping props while I finish this 3rd period in Vegas.