NBA Playoffs 2018

[KRIT]

It's just the classic line adaptation based on which team is more "desperate".

It's literally depressing to watch the Bucks, Wiz and Thunder play. How those 3 coaches are still employed is beyond me.

Bucks coach is a joke. Brooks is okay, I just don't think Wiz are that great when Wall isn't fully healthy. That team only goes as far as he takes them. They also need to move on from Gortat, guy is an aging center. OKC coach clearly sucks if he can't get past Utah with two top ten players.

[Richard Clock]

All good points.. but when blazers clogged the paint so ad doesnt get the lob it opens up everything..he doesnt have to score on every possession to be effective.. I will probably play blazers but those are just some concerns that I have.. and there is no really streaky shooters if they are wide open over and over again while DL and CJ keep forcing shots after first pick and roll.. Blazers have to play all around better ball. I dont trust Gentry either lol..

I should point out that I can easily be very wrong. Just trying to provide some justification as to why this line has value.

As for the shooting discrepancy, I didn't watch how open each Pelicans player was on every 3P shot last game, but I am less concerned with the quality of shots and more concerned with 3P % over a career sample size. Rondo, Mirotic and company have traditionally been inconsistent, and in some cases downright bad, 3P shooters. Lillard and CJ have a career sample size of being able to make tough threes. Gotta at least give part of the credit to Holliday, but there is certainly a bit of randomness at play here.

[t-wizzle]

Not betting the Sixers/Heat game. Simply watching as a fan. I don’t love the spot for the Sixers but I do think they will find a way to win a close game.

Leaning Spurs in the late game. Undecided on Portland/New Orleans.

[meyer0416]

Just decide.

Heat +3

Blazers +3.5

Not sure with the spurs and the heart they can play with at times but if I bet it it’d have to be GS -3.5

[t-wizzle]

Spurs +3.5 -110 (2x); ML +150 (0.8x)

[KRIT]

I like spurs as well, no pop no problem.

[t-wizzle]

Spurs -4.5 +240 (0.5x)

[t-wizzle]

I like spurs as well, no pop no problem.

Emotional win. Warriors know series is theirs.

[KRIT]

Yeah GS will win game 4 and then finish them off at home.

[KRIT]

Goat how did Wade do in todays game?

[t-wizzle]

Goat how did Wade do in todays game?

Got his shit pushed in.

[ChiLLx]

So the warriors just going to cover every game like last year? What a joke this league is now

[Seto]

Bucks coach is a joke. Brooks is okay, I just don't think Wiz are that great when Wall isn't fully healthy. That team only goes as far as he takes them. They also need to move on from Gortat, guy is an aging center. OKC coach clearly sucks if he can't get past Utah with two top ten players.

Presti has to be the most overrated GM of all time. He's lucked into a few great players and had hired Scott Brooks and Billy Donovan. If he had hired someone like Carlisle they would have 2 rings.

All 3 of those teams just play retarded on offense. They have no idea how to play basketball in 2018. Their ball movement is terrible, and really that's on the coach. There was one possession in the Wizards game the other day that just about sums it up, Oubre caught the ball on the wing after the defense collapsed and one man had to guard both him and Scott in the corner, and he fakes, dribbles it and shoots a 20-foot two pointer. It just shows those teams have the wrong habits and don't look for the right shots nor to make the extra pass.

Watch OKC down the stretch of any game... Contested Russ 18-footer... Contested PG 20-footer... It would help if Melo could make an open three every now and then to keep the defense honest and Corey fukking Brewer certainly wasn't the answer to fill in their starting 5, but they still have enough to get better shots or at least try to get better shots. The only time they really get good shots is in transition.

I hate to fall into the whole analytics thing and I feel like a lot of these guys who base all their arguments on stats miss the bigger picture you get by watching and "feeling" games but you can't discount the simple reality that long 2's aren't good shots, unless you have maybe Aldridge or put Dirk Nowitzki in a time machine.

All that being said, you can't discount talent so it's possible the Bucks and Thunder end up pulling through but it's pretty sad to think of all the talent that's being wasted there. With a proper coach OKC could beat the Rockets, basically no shot they will with Donovan.

[Seto]

So the warriors just going to cover every game like last year? What a joke this league is now

They just got a perfect matchup. Spurs can only win by out-executing and you can't out-execute the Warriors. The Pelicans will be an interesting series if Curry isn't 100%.

[2daBank]

Presti has to be the most overrated GM of all time. He's lucked into a few great players and had hired Scott Brooks and Billy Donovan. If he had hired someone like Carlisle they would have 2 rings.

All 3 of those teams just play retarded on offense. They have no idea how to play basketball in 2018. Their ball movement is terrible, and really that's on the coach. There was one possession in the Wizards game the other day that just about sums it up, Oubre caught the ball on the wing after the defense collapsed and one man had to guard both him and Scott in the corner, and he fakes, dribbles it and shoots a 20-foot two pointer. It just shows those teams have the wrong habits and don't look for the right shots nor to make the extra pass.

Watch OKC down the stretch of any game... Contested Russ 18-footer... Contested PG 20-footer... It would help if Melo could make an open three every now and then to keep the defense honest and Corey fukking Brewer certainly wasn't the answer to fill in their starting 5, but they still have enough to get better shots or at least try to get better shots. The only time they really get good shots is in transition.

I hate to fall into the whole analytics thing and I feel like a lot of these guys who base all their arguments on stats miss the bigger picture you get by watching and "feeling" games but you can't discount the simple reality that long 2's aren't good shots, unless you have maybe Aldridge or put Dirk Nowitzki in a time machine.

All that being said, you can't discount talent so it's possible the Bucks and Thunder end up pulling through but it's pretty sad to think of all the talent that's being wasted there. With a proper coach OKC could beat the Rockets, basically no shot they will with Donovan.

Donavan might be a retard but rockets coach has never once out coached anyone in a playoff series I can recall.

[t-wizzle]

Raptors ML +110 (4x)

The Raptors are getting their payback for being swept by the Wizards back in 2015. Washington is dysfunctional right now. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the Wizards race out to a lead but I don’t believe in their ability to sustain it for 48 minutes. Toronto is the better team and that will show over the course of a full game. If by some chance the Wizards to win a game, it’s a martingale situation in Game 4. Raptors are not going to let this series drag out.

Bucks -5.5 -110 (3x)

I still believe Boston wins this series but this appears to be shaping up as a blowout spot for the Bucks. They will go balls out for one night and then lose in Game 4.

[t-wizzle]

Pacers ML -110 (4x)

[t-wizzle]

Pacers ML -110 (4x)

Adding:

Pacers ML -120 (1x)
Pacers -7.5 +240 (0.6x)

[t-wizzle]

Let’s go Pacers!!!!

[ChiLLx]

Adding:

Pacers ML -120 (1x)
Pacers -7.5 +240 (0.6x)

Nice

[t-wizzle]

Game 3:

Thunder +4.5 -110 (3x); ML +165 (1.2x)

[t-wizzle]

Celtics +5.5 -105 (2x); ML +200 (1x)

Pacers ML -105 (4x)

[ikid2groove415]

Another wizard blow out!! Toronto is no juggernaut

[YoungGambler]

took celtics even though liked Bucks originally

[t-wizzle]

Adding:

Celtics +6 -105 (2x); ML +210 (0.5x)

[t-wizzle]

All the line movement suggests that Milwaukee evens the series but I’m trusting my original instincts here. I just think Boston will hang around and make the plays necessary to get it done. I believe the $ on the Bucks is an overreaction to the blowout in Game 3. Everyone sees the talent differential and thinks the Bucks should win big again but I don’t see it today. I could be wrong but I’m willing to make this gamble.

[t-wizzle]

Raptors -1.5 -110 (5x)

[t-wizzle]

Adding:

Pacers ML +110 (2x)

[DOM-Ganador]

Adding:

Pacers ML +110 (2x)

Wiz, how is the thread going?
Been getting killed on my larger bets, winning my small bets until last night.
Drunk parlay on Cleve -2/ under 204.5 ( bad #) to go up a bit overall.
The under was so lucky.

[t-wizzle]

Wiz, how is the thread going?
Been getting killed on my larger bets, winning my small bets until last night.
Drunk parlay on Cleve -2/ under 204.5 ( bad #) to go up a bit overall.
The under was so lucky.

Need to do an update. Got hurt yesterday on Indy and Toronto.

[t-wizzle]

Thunder +5 -110 (4x); ML +200 (2x)

[TimTheLandlord]

Thunder +5 -110 (4x); ML +200 (2x)

Good luck

[t-wizzle]

Game 5:

76ers -9.5 -110 (3x)

[t-wizzle]

Good luck

Thanks you too.

[coach 40/40]

Totally disagree with your ok pick . That team will not win anything especially with Carmelo and Westbrook on the same team . Take a look at Utah they were picked to be a bad team but they turned out to be a very good team . They play for each other not for themselves.There’s no i in team .