I suppose it could be considered that the Warriors are deflated, if one wants to look at it that way. They are two different things that lead to the same result.
In this case, we are seeing both at play sticking Boston as the favorite here.
This specific case is tricky, because some might try to "read the line" and perhaps say the Celtics are too low, but this line could easily go to 2, or even lower.
It could have opoened a pick em, but tha might have gone too far in the face of public pressure. This line inlfated, basically to 4, gathering public action, steam action, etc. before coming back down under what I would consider sharper pressure.
Was buying GSW into that early pressure, and stopped at +2.5.
I was also buying the moneyline and picked up numbers on both sides of +140 today.
I think there was inflation and deflation that led to value.
Win or lose.

Should have just texted all that, lol.