Everyone has seen this coming, but actually no one can actually pinpoint if this decision is right or wrong. But i guess for most of the audience, Vogel should be out in the team in the first place as it only embarass everyone with all the injuries and turmoil the team has to suffer in the current season. And yeah, i guess Westbrook and Dwight will be traded, and right now, Lakers has been eyeing already who has the potentials to be the next Los Angeles Lakers coach.

Kyrie is definitely in beast mode right now. Durant started off with a terrible shooting streak but as soon as the fourth quarter hit they all started going crazy. The Celtics are still dominating down low and the Nets defense in the key is concerning, but it looks like they’ve got momentum on their side as they are up by 5 with 5 minutes to go. Now that Durant seems to be back into his regular routine I’m starting to feel pretty good about picking the Nets to win this one (in several different bets). Crossing fingers now as I watch how this one ends.

Such disappointing defense down the stretch for the Nets. They must have given up at least 4 uncontested layups in the last 5 minutes of the game. Their final shot was terrible and they didn’t even make an effort to get the rebound. The Celtics deserved to win this one. It’s clear they aren’t the better team, but the Nets aren’t making the kind of effort they need to in order to win playoff games. I think the Nets will still win the series but they’re going to have to bring a lot more effort going forward. Their defense down the stretch was embarrassing. Kyrie had a hell of a game though.

Playing good defense throughout the game will help any team a lot even if they're having difficulty making shots. Getting the ball by stealing and rebounding also gives that team more chances to score. This is clearly displayed in the Celtics vs. Nets game.


Bucks vs Bulls is up next. It's going to be a dominant game for Giannis.

The Bulls cut the lead at 8 from being behind 13 points after the first half. The Bucks dominated the Bulls in the 1Q but somehow the Bulls come back a bit. Seems the Bucks can maintain their dominance after the half as the Bulls are trying to find their rhythm.

Checking the live bets, those handicaps for Milwaukee Bucks are catchy, tempting, and attractive.

Still thinking if I will bet on those.

Not having too many injures matters just because of this reason. I mean we had fun watching Celtics vs Nets I am sure but we had no missing stars on Nets, they do not have Harden anymore unfortunately but they had both Irving and Durant, same goes for Celtics who had both Tatum and Brown, on top of that some other players that they really needed. So all in all I have to say that the games will be great as long as we keep this up. However, if we keep seeing some smaller injuries that makes people miss games, that will be the trouble. The only reason why I disliked the last 2 seasons playoffs were the fact that many teams had injuries and that made the "least injured good team" champions.

Kyrie played well even though he got many boo's from the crowd, Durant had a bad night shooting only 9/24 from the field and that turnaround buzzer beater by Tatum that gave them the victory. This series might end up in 7 games but still its hard to predict who will be the winner.

With Durant having a bad shooting tonight, I think that the Nets can win in this series and make an upset (not total upset though). If Kyrie played the same all throughout the series and Durant will be better in the future games, I think they can overcome the Celtics since this Game 1 is a very close game (even though the Celtics lead as high as 15). If only they stopped that last possession, the Nets might've won it but.. it is what it is. Nets will make an adjustment but for sure they know that they can beat the Celtics.

It will be very difficult though, as you can see, both of them should have a very super game in order to win. No doubt that Kyrie is superb tonight, but Durant's performance is subpar as per his standard. So it really boils down as to how both of them are going to play. They need to have 4 games to at least score 30+ points together to have a good chance to win this series.

Yeah, that was a great game. A feeling like a Game 7 but it was just Game 1. Looking forward to witnessing more of this kind. Oh, and that was some move by Tatum too, a quick spin move that totally surprised Kyrie Irving who was unable to react.
He was smoking in that last quarter. He knew there is something wrong with his teammates because they cannot make anything offensively and he stepped up. This is the CP3 we knew that made the Suns enter the championship and here he goes again. Pelicans tried different players to defend him but none was able to do so. Great win for the Suns.

Sun's role players are good enough to match with the Pelicans, sorry to say, but that's also what I have noticed here.

Putting all the stars of Suns inside and with CP3 dictating the game, Pelicans will be having more hard time
in competing with the solid defense and offense of the Suns.

Let see what adjustments Pelicans will try to do to tie this series, though it's not that bad as they, really
trying to work it out but Suns are too heavy for them.