The favorites are winning. I lost both my bets.
I feel like a fool for not trusting the New York Liberty and instead taking the handicap for the Washington Mystics which is +9.5. But they did play well in the first quarter, but after that, the Liberty dominated every quarter. Good start bad ending but I like the fighting spirit.
Mystics focused their defense on Breanna Stewart and it actually worked but they cannot leave Sabrina Ionescu open. Their strategy of focusing on Stewy has a bunch of mistakes, they must defend 3 stars of that team and yes that includes Jonquel Jones.
Atlanta Dream also lost against the Dallas Wings and it's almost the same game as the first one. Dream dominated the first quarter but that's it. Wings tied the game before the end of the first half, played the 3rd quarter right, and then used full force at the fourth.
No upsets just yet. Game 2 will be more unpredictable as teams that lost in game 1 will try their everything to tie the series.
Aw! There is really something about the favorites that the bookies really like and for not trusting it this could surely happen, but certainly, we had some intuition that sometimes was right all along but this time in the play-offs maybe the bookies knew those teams could be a different team and certainly they surely are all favorites so far have all won and maybe this could continue until the Round 2 of the playoffs begins because that will be the real deal when the teams like Liberty and Aces clash at each other, or maybe I could be wrong,
Results of my bet for games yesterday
New York Liberty (1.19) VS Washington Mystics (4.10) -
WINWell even though the Mystics defended Breanna Stewart that didn't stop the other 4 open players from making scores it was proven that strategy would not work against the New York Liberty as Betnijah Laney, Jonquel Jones, and the shooting champion Sabrina Ionescu opened and took the shots, pretty much it was a bad decision and strategy for them to focus on 1 defense, making Breanna Stewart got 10 points, Betnijah Laney got 19 points, Jonquel Jones has a double-double of 12 rebounds and 20 points, and Sabrina Ionescu got 29 points,
Dallas Wings (1.33) VS
Atlanta Dream (3.05) -
LOSTIt was a close game the Atlanta Dream got a great start for making that kind of lead in the 1st quarter I really thought that the Atlanta Dream would then finish the game and they will surely win, but the Dallas Wings managed to snatch that in the 4th quarter, but Cheyenne Parker, Allisha Gray, and Rhyne Howard got a great start for sure but then the Dallas Wings manage to stop them for Teaira McCowan has a double-double of 14 rebound and 17 points, Arike Ogunbowale got 24 points, and Satou Sabally got 32 points for this game,