2023-04-24 07:01:38
DThey say, and it seems true at first glance, that the NBA Playoffs change the whole world. They are even, crazy, they defend themselves and it is a higher quality basketball. The champion favorites continue to be, but the first round of those of 2023 shows that to win you have to fight. Only a 4-0, that of the Philadelphia 76ers to the Brooklyn Nets. And the big names who showed up ‘at the starting line’ still have to fight to guarantee their ticket to the conference semifinals. There are no big boasts.
There are favorites that ‘lower their price’. It happens to the Milwaukee Bucks, who will have to put on their work overalls once morest some epic Miami Heat. The Jimmy Butler series is sensational (more than 25 points in each of the three games played), the absence of Giannis Antetokounmpo is added and a change of pace in the Bucks that only appeared in the second game.
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It also happens to the great name, to the Golden State Warriors. In his defense, it seems obvious, is that the great first round series is played once morest the Sacramento Kings. All the games are close, the game between Stephen Curry and De’Aaron Fox is epic, Draymond Green resurfaced with a magnificent defensive game in the fourth… It’s basketball at the highest level. But those dominant Warriors from before are no more. They even make changes, like Green jumping off the bench. “We won. I’m a true believer that if something ain’t broken, you don’t have to change it. I won’t get to the point of getting mad or upset regarding anything. I want the best for the team to happen,” he recounted.
I will not be angry for being a substitute
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Other favorites remain. it happens to Boston Celtics, who saved in Trae Young’s epic game for 2-1, they command with a firm step before the Hawks. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown went up to 62 combined in the third win, and the ‘7’ was the answer when Boston’s imagination light went out. They win and continue to convince. The Denver Nuggets are also in that line, to which only the genius of Anthony Edwards prevents a first-round trip once morest the Timberwolves.
And are there favorites that go up?
In that sum of sensations and you go up and down, there are also other teams that were favorites and that raise their price in the post-season. Like the Los Angeles Lakers, who, although they are not in the first row of favorites, show that they have the most differential factor. Anthony Davis crushes boards wherever he goes and his command of scoring plus rebounding is impeccable. The Memphis Grizzlies, an energetic but suffering team once morest the Lakers, cannot find a reading to stop him. With energy and success they took ‘Game 2’, but if everything is even… Gold and purple rules.
Playoffs NBA. Resumen Lakers 111-101 Grizzlies
And there is the question with the Phoenix Suns. Numerically, his series cannot go better. Even games, only one defeat following a defensive genius from Russell Westbrook and the stars of him punishing. So far, everything is true. But it seems like it’s also being shown how to hurt them. Focused on bad starts to the game, too much load of minutes on the starters and receiving a lot of non-stellar players. Yes, they win. And a lot. With which… they show that perhaps the path is not to destroy.
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