Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 19. (Read 885757 times)

$10 gone for me. $5 on the Over total score, gone too. I thought it would be a high-scoring game because both teams are offensive teams. My mistake, I didn't expect the Celtics to play hard defense and blow out the game.

But this will be a good fuel for the Mavericks team. They now know their opponent is really strong so I bet they will be pushing their limits and use that loss to be more competitive in Game 2.

Later, Game 2 of the Finals.
I think I am still betting for the Mavericks despite their bad loss in game 1. Adjustments will happen and Coach Kidd is good at that. Their last two series are the living proof of that.
Do remember guys, they also lost against the Clippers in Game 1 and also lost against the Thunder in Game 1.

That's definitely true, we overreact after the game one as if we haven't seen an unpredictable series in the past. Just remember the Nuggets vs Timberwolves series, that was the most unpredictable series as Nuggets loss two home games but they come back by winning two road games to even the series. Here, it's the celtics home court, so it's not so hard to believe that they will dominate, just like if Dallas will also dominate the Celtics on their home court. Let's see the game 2 first, I'm sure Dallas are not gonna loss that big if they'll loss again.

If they made it to the finals I would've been rooting and betting for the Nuggets by now instead of Boston. I can accept that Denver lost to Minnesota but I cannot simply believe Dallas just completely dominated the series and nearly shut the Wolves at 4-0.

Damn, I lost my series bet because I thought the young OKC can pull it up against a more experienced Dallas team. I favored Denver over Boston because of the championship experience and the core players are already playing together for years. But I always thought before that only Denver is capable of beating Boston this time. Earlier I expect Boston to win by 4-1 or 4-2 but I guess 4-0 is very possible.

For this instance, that can also be the case. As you have said, it's true that there were games before that they've got the first game and dominated half of the series but still ended up losing. There's no need to be careful with this, we're just fans and bettors here. But I guess you're giving a warning about those bettors that are putting everything at stake with this finals. If that is so, yeah they have to be careful with everything or else they're gonna lose in an unexpected manner. Anyway, what's not to expect on this series? everything is still unpredictable.

I thought it would be closer as well. The Mavericks showed a little strength to start the 3rd quarter but that was quickly crushed. They just don’t match up well against the Celtics due to the length of the Celtics and the lack of athletic ability of the Mavericks. The Timberwolves on the other hand would have smoked the Celtics.

Damn that was a tough game for the Mavs to open up the championship.  I had a few bucks on them, despite feeling that the Celtics probably had the upper hand in game 1, especially being that they were at home, which always has a nice advantage.  I personally feel like this series is going to go the distance, and likely to end up at either 6 or 7 games, or at leas that is what I am hoping for.  Really looking forward to the game tomorrow.

Yeah it's definitely not a lock.  Anytime the other team is putting Luka on the floor anything can happen.  The key for Dallas is guarding Krista's porzingas.  Let's see if Jason kidd can come back with the defensive adjustments.  A lot will be found out about this series in game 2.  Anyone e can win one in a blowout it's a game of adjustments.  Can't wait to watch.

Celtics do look like they got the game lock, but that doesn't mean every game will be like that. We have seen many series where one team had one game where they dominated, but they lost the series and this could be something like that, we should be quite careful about it if you ask me.

I believe that the best thing to do right now would be just making sure that we are not really dealing with anything that's getting crazier, it's obvious that we are going to just assume that things will not be all that simple, so the best way to go with this would be just be careful. If you keep betting on Boston, and if they win then things are great, but if you do that and Dallas makes a come back in the series and win then that will hurt you.

First of all, they were so comfortable in this match because the Boston Celtics played very well in the first quarter, everyone who watched the match will say this. In such matches, the venue in which the match is played is of great importance. There was no serious difference between the teams at the beginning of the match, but with the influence of the fans in the TD Garden , a serious difference emerged in the last 3-4 minutes of the first quarter. But it would not be right to say that Dallas was out of the game, the point difference was down to 9 in the 3rd quarter. They could have caught Celtics, but it didn't happen.

Porzingis' contribution to the team was huge, but Dallas could not take adequate precautions regarding it. I'm sure we will see a different defense in the second match. If Dallas wins the next game, we can start talking about different things in the final series. That's why we should be aware that we have only left the first match behind. It would not be right to say that Boston Celtics is the favorite team and think that the matches are over

And credit also with the good defense of Boston Luka can't find that opening so instead of passing the ball he mostly take the shots, both him and Kyrie needs to create that space and make their teammates move for the rotations, if they manage to adjsut with how they really playing the game it will be an interesting next game for both teams, Boston needs to secure their home court advantage while Mavs will attempt again to snatch a game and switch that edge to their favor in terms of home court advantage.

I don't see a sweep. Mavs have the firepower but maybe they are surprised with what the Boston Celtics can do. They have too many offensive players and Derrick White had been shooting lights out too.
The problem that I saw was the lack of lob pass on the inside. If the two popular guards of the Mavs can somehow make Lively and Gafford join the offensive aggression then maybe they will have more options and that is where the Celtics will get confused about what is about to happen next. Luka Doncic had 1 assist only on Game 1 which means he had not been passing the ball.
I think that's the aftershock of dominating Game 5 against the Timberwolves. He certainly did most of the damage on that game but it's time to go back to being the Luka that will kick the ball out or find the big man to lob the ball.

The question is, how will they upset the Celtics?
Luka's heavily guarded by not only Holiday, but all of Celtics' players, and at the same time, Porzingis is what I'm considering as the X-factor on this series because his presence inside the court has an impact towards the whole team. He's very efficient on offense, and a very reliable defender inside the paint as well, and at the same time, he's way faster than both Lively and Gafford.

+7.5 for me is something that I will not take if I'm betting (IMO) because I don't see any way for the Mavericks to upset the Celtics on their own home, but who knows. I mean the Celtics have a curse of losing their Game 2 in their first 2 series.

TBH, the NBA Finals would be better if the Nuggets and the Celtics are the ones that faced.

Kidding aside, I agree with what you said that the Celtics are happy to face them, and it will be harder for them if they will face the Nuggets because they're like equally matched. As for OKC being eliminated, it's not surprising for me considering that they are inexperienced in the playoffs (both the players and the coach). I predicted that the Mavericks will win on this one in 7 games, but looking at how the Celtics demolished them in Game 1, I'm already thinking that my prediction might be wrong.

By looking at game one performance made by Boston it really make sense that Mavs doesn't have any proper match up for the current rotation what Boston have. They struggle so much when Boston tighten up their defence against them and if they can't do anything like if we don't see any huge adjustment will be made on game two then provably we could see a 0-2 in favor on Boston will happen. If Mavs would ever let Boston will take again on game two then maybe we will see a sweep in finals and that is a huge shame for their team so hopefully they fight back and don't let this to happen.

I also wonder what will happen if Wolves is the one who proceed to finals maybe Boston we might see that Boston will see more close match up between them and Kat and Gobert would provably have some answer on defensive pressure given by Boston.

I think the players of Boston Celtics will be so glad to be playing against Dallas Mavericks in the NBA finals. Dallas Mavericks did surprised me by eliminating Oklahoma City Thunder and Minnesota Timberwolves in order to reach the NBA finals but it seems they are just doing Boston Celtics a great favor. I guess Boston Celtics will be able to beat Dallas Mavericks again in their upcoming match and lead the series by 2-0.

Take that or regret missing the opportunity to bet on them as heavy underdogs. If Dallas upsets the Celtics in Game 2, we won't see that handicap in the succeeding games, especially if Dallas wins the two games on their home court. There are still a lot of doubts about Dallas in Game 2 because they were completely outplayed in Game 1, but as the fans are saying, that's just Game 1. This is the finals and a long series.

The odds for the Mavs was interesting and that's why I think many have bet for them.

I'm sure that they're going to adjust big by game 2.

Sure they will not allow to have a 2 straight loss on a finals game. But that can change, the pulse of most of us are going to change if ever they win by game 2.

It was the 3 point shooting and the attack in the paint where the Mavericks can't adjust since it's easy for them to kick out the ball and since they are 3 point shooters, they can easily score. However, if the defense will be tighter in game 2, I think Celtics shooting will struggle a bit, but let's see what Dallas will make for their adjustment.

After seeing game 1, I'm now backing Dallas to win game 2, or maybe at least to cover the handicap.

+7.5... That's very tempting if you'll ask me.

Well I have the Celtics winning though, but I think the sentimental favorites is Mavs here because they wanted to have an upset and Luka has a lot of fans here.


It's really more on the high shooting percentage by the Celtics, and then KP was back contributed big 20 points and then they have a good defensive plan against Luka and they check Kyrie too. No lob pass, almost no assists from Luka and Kyrie has a bad night. And again, it just takes just one quarter to know who's going to win although they mounted a great comeback to cut the lead down to 8. But when the Celtics called a time-out, it was very different again in the 3rd quarter.

In the series, yes, but in game 1, I think most of us think the Celtics will win as they are the heavy favorite to win.
Usually, odds are based on the perception of the bettors, that's why I said most of us believe the Celtics will win, however, it's different from the betting points handicap as Dallas had more bettors on that.


It's not that they are in bad shape, it's about the strategy of the game where the Celtics had a better one, but comes game 2, expect a big adjustment as Dallas will now allow they'll loss via blowout again.

Most of us thought that they're going to win against the Celtics but no.

When players are in a bad shape and didn't have a great performance especially their main players, this would end up badly for the team.

I think most teams should really develop each and everyone from the bench, those that they can rely on. Not mostly to the rookies but there are exceptional ones.

They really need some help out there.