Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 633. (Read 914745 times)

A big chance for the Nuggets to finally reached the finals and maybe got their first title.

If I remember it right, it was the era of Carmelo Anthony when they almost reached the finals but they lost against Kobe's Lakers
and during the Bubble they again knock their ways to finals but it was a complete full squad of LeBron and Davis lead Lakers, I think
they will not waste these opportunities and if they can put a dot now, it can be sweep for the Lakers at home.

Oh WOW, Denver!
3:0 versus the Lakers with yet another dominating performance!
They didn't even need Jokic to have a monster game, just a normal one was enough tp win in LK.

Not sure if you guys know, Denver has not only never won the championship before, they never played in the finals as well!
The way this is going they can plan for the finals. I also think they will win the whole thing.
With Boston having their back on the wall, these finals can come faster than expected. There might be a chance to see a double sweep in the conference finals this year, not sure if this ever happened.

Looking forward to the Miami game today/tomorrow. If Miami can defend their home court both series stand at 3:0, who would have thought.

I definitely agree. The always favorite Boston is helpless in the face of the Heat. The Celtics are even the favorite in this year's championship but it seems they cannot even think of a way to stop Butler. Heat is pretty much walking in the park right now. Even if Boston is able to steal one game in Miami, they're over. The series is indeed decided the moment Heat won both games away from home.

Lakers is still alive though. 2-0 is a bad start but it's their court advantage now. And although they're still trailing by 8 at this moment, they can still turn this game around.

Closing games. They are not good at it, especially Jayson Tatum. He is the one expected to step up his game in the last 12 minutes of the game and yet the same as in Game 1 he didn't make any field goal. They must change that if they want to steal at least 1 win in Miami. Then, someone on their bench must step up his game, and feel the energy of the Conference Finals because compared to the Heat roster, they are way better than them on both ends of the floor and they are showing how it's done even if they are undermanned.

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Jamal Murray starts hot today. 30 points in the first half and he will definitely add more in the 2nd half.
Nikola Jokic on the other hand is not that much aggressive yet. He must be preserving his energy and will show it later in the 2nd half, we will see.
Despite the big start of Jamal, the Lakers are only down by 3.

With the Los Angeles Lakers vs Denver Nuggets game about to start, I think the analysts pretty much nailed it. I’m expecting a lower scoring game with Jokic scoring most of the Nuggets points. DeAngelo Russell will probably get less minutes with Rui picking up his time on the floor. I think this sort of game favors the Lakers, so we’ll see if Jamal Murray can break the defense and have another big night.

As per their odds in Stake, the Boston Celtics are still the favorite for Game 3 of their Conference Finals against the Miami Heat. I am also not sure about going for the Celtics on their game 3 but I will risk some for the team. I do not think the players are lacking to defeat the Miami Heat. I think it is the coaching that needs improvement in this series. Joe Mazzulla is outcoached by a more veteran Erik Spoelstra in game 2. That should improve since the players rely very much on their coaching, especially in the late game of each match. The Celtics are on the road but it does not mean they cannot win against the Heat. A lot of teams have recovered from a 2-0 deficit before. What they do not want is falling into a 3-0 or 3-1 hole. If they do, it is pretty much a Miami series.




That is bad for the Lakers if that is their history going on a 0-2 deficit. Some could argue that they do not have Lebron James when those happened, but Lebron James is having a bad performance as well. He could not take over in the deciding minutes of the game. Both in game 1 and game 2, he missed clutch shots that could have turned the tables against the Nuggets. I do not know if his feet are bothering him, but he really is having the worst performance right now. It is not shown in the stat sheets but if you lose the ball in the dying minutes or missed layups and open shots that should be clutch, then all your points, assist, and rebounds in the early part of the game is meaningless. All those stats are nothing is you do not perform when it matters.

Celtics being Celtis of century XXI, poor cowardly, i dont know why a big and historic team like Celtics become this bad.

Everytime they are called to be champion they dont ahve the guts to make it happen, i know its early and they can come back, but always they fail in the BIG matches.

They are playing at home, so at least they have a good chance to win, at least they just needed 1 game to just bring back the confidence of the team. They need all the help they can get from the players that bring them to this series. D'Lo will have to step up and Dennis Schröder is the key here. But as far as numbers goes?


Celtics is a different story, they have the homecourt advantage in this series, they are the second best them in the East agains the number 8 seed in the Heat. But they've lost both games at Boston Celtics and now they will have to travel to a hostile crowd just to get a win and then comeback to tie the series. It's going to be very difficult for them to make back to back wins at the road. It will take a lot, both physical and mental to bring the best, specially from Tatum and Brown to lead the team.

This series is basically over at this point, if you lose 2 times in a row at home, then there is nothing to go on. I even consider it at a high huge risk for Lakers for not getting a win on the road, and they were on the road and so close and yet they lost, but what happened already happened and if they lose even a single game in the next two games, that means series is already over, there is no 3-1 comeback anymore left in Lebron, so they either win 2 in a row or they are gone and this is home games.

Celtics lost both at home, that's wildly different, so to me this series is already over and unless they pull of a miracle and do something that hasn't been done god knows in how many years, then Heat will have an easy win without a doubt.

Or at least Davis should be healthy. If he is healthy 100% and playing at home then we should expect to have a good game from him and taking the lead from Lebron James. The problem is that we don't know if he is not feeling anything, for Lebron I think he has twisted his ankle on game 2 but I think he can go and play at home because this is a must win for him.


It's very unusual for the Celtics to lost back to back at home and Tatum cant' find his rhythm. But remember they are down 3-2 against the Sixers and won one at the road and then finished them at home. So let's see if they can steal game 3 against the Heat and then make game 4 crucial for both team.

That is a very smart bet in my opinion. I was thinking the same. Heat's shooting percentage was surprisingly great. I didn't check the statistics but I felt like they made almost every shot and very very hard shots. Even from almost all of the players, not only Jimmy Butler. I feel like it will be hard for them to do that in every game. After two wins at Boston, Heat might not be so disciplined in this next game and Celtics will be so fierce to win and not get 3-0 behind. I just feel like from experience that Celtics will cling on to this game for life and might get a win. For the 4th game though, I don't know. We will probably see Heat bounce back up play like the first 2 games.

Yes, the Lakers haven't lost at home yet during this playoff run, and it looks like home arena advantage is the deciding factor in the Lakers' case. That means there is still a chance that the Lakers will win the next two games and tie the series. Besides, the results of the previous games show that the Lakers can quite compete with the Nuggets, but they lack just a little bit, as both times they lost by no more than 6 points.

I honestly hope they win it all.  They've been knocking authentic door for awhile and I don't want to see any of the other 3 winning lol.  To be honest I can't see either of the east teams stopping Denver, they are just too strong.  Who on either team would stop jokic, bam, Robert Williams? Philly is just too weak but they can neutralize jokic with embid that would have been a good matchup to watch even know the rest of Philly is meh.

Is all or nothing for Lakers tonight because if they don't win and they go down 3-0 ...the series is over, but if somehow they manage to put a victory and make this 2-1 , I have confidence that Lakers can win the series or at least push it to game 7.

I also think that Boston can push their series up to 7th game but I do see Heat reaching the finals.

I think the Lakers win at home long as Davis comes to play. It would make for a very interesting narrative if the Lakers went down 3 games in the series and came back to tie it and go to a game 7 though. Ratings would go through the roof for game 7.

As far as Boston and the Heat goes though, Boston blew it and that series is over. You can't lose 2 at home and hope to win 2 on the road deflated. Tatum has to take control and he's just not been doing that.

Jimmy Butler is the real deal! Absolutely clutch and who would have thought the Heat, 8th seed will win both the away games against the high flying Celtics. From what is visible to me, the Celtics seems to lack leadership like Butler, in crunch time. Celtics is filled with Star caliber players like Brown, Taytum, Horford but they seem be to not able to rise under pressure. They look amazing when the things go their way . But when it doesn't, they look like a headless chicken.

Miami Heat is currently playing really well. I am quite confident that they are going to win the next match against the Celtics. I mean they are already leading by 2-0. Butler, Adebayo most of the players are in form and also contributing to the scoreboard a lot. With this type of team performance, it is going to be hard for any other team to actually stop the Miami Heat.

Yeah, ESPN is one of them and they just don't like Heat thus, they've made those predictions that Heat only has a little chance to make it to the playoffs and even in the finals.

Well, good for the Heat that they've proven it for the last 2 games that they're wrong and this conference has to end on their terms to prove them wrong.

It's not that Heat wants that advantage, Heat is just proving it. Just like what Butler has said, they should avoid a finals Butler together with his team.

Butler and the rest of the team doing great this game also in fourth quarter they run a points by a three points. In terms of Boston Celtic's there are many opportunity that Tatum makes a shot and also willam but they can't make that fight maybe in the next game they have or they can make an adjustment so that they can win against The miaami which ahead of 2 and that's leads is big enough to be a champion.

This NBA playoff bonanza really is special.

Miami stomping all the higher seed, who would have thought. Now they can take care of business at home. Boston is not dead but it surely looks bad right now.

Denver vs Boston, doesn't sound so bad. If Denver is winning it would be their first chip and 100% well deserved.

Jokic couldn't care less about the lost MVP if he manages to crown yet another awesome season with the first title for this franchise. This would make him a legend already in the city.

Rooting for these guys, they surely deserve it big time!!!