Yeah, the numbers in the regular season is nothing in the playoffs as they are back to 0-0 and this is going to be a series. It's a healthy Warriors now, with a few upgrades from their last championship run, but the team remain the same with Curry, Green and Thompson and Iggy and Looney. And now they built a solid team with Wiggins, Poole, Payton, Lee, and Kuminga.

Prediction was spot on. 
There was a time the Timberwolves surprised me at how good their defense is but that faded away on the 4th quarter. It's Ja Morant who dominated the game with his acrobatic moves and there's Jones despite finishing with just 10 points those are all crucial shots especially the couple of three pointers that was a lead changer.
Warriors next, both playing small ball and relying on speed and transition plays. It will be fun.

Miami Heat will have an easy journey in the 2nd round as Embiid of 76ers is reportedly out due to injury.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/joel-embiid-injury-update-76ers-big-man-out-indefinitely-with-orbital-fracture-concussion-per-report/

That means, the Heat will be in the ECF and will just be waiting for the winner of the Bucks and Celtics.

There's a huge part of defensive and offensive ends will lost on Sixers in absence of Embiid but we can still say that this team has a good shot to throw up knowing that they have strong roosters. Lets just see if Harden will click up and give quality performance to lift this team since if they could win without Embiid we can say that they level up already and able to compete with other much stronger team.

We have all the matchups in hand right now. Heat - 76ers would be a really tough one and I think that it can end after seven games are played. And I think 76ers would win the series. Bucks are a very strong opponent for Celtics and I don't think that Celtics can get past them. This series can end by a 4-1 victory for Bucks I think. And Suns can get past Mavericks by the same result also. Grizzlies - Warriors might be a little more competitive I think and Warriors would be the winner by 4-2.

I'm also curious how far could the Memphis Grizzlies go against the Warriors this time, surely they don't have enough experience in the playoffs compared to the Warriors who became a back-to-back champion few years ago. This could be an advantage of the young players of Grizzlies so that they can learn against the heavy teams but looking in the current line-up, I know the Warriors will be the one to move up this round.

I'm also thinking that Memphis Grizzlies won't give up against Warriors that easy. Warriors are not like the old times I think. They are still strong of course but they are not like the season they dominated the regular season and won the championship later on too. Denver Nuggets were a piece-of-cake for them Because only Jokic was playing strongly for Nuggets in that series. And as a result, Warriors won the series by 4-1. But here, I believe Grizzlies can make this series end after seven games. Warriors would still become the winner maybe but at least we would watch a great series.

Considering Warriors beat Nuggets in 5 games and Memphis beat Wolves in 6, I am guessing that it will be easy matchup for Warriors to beat Memphis on this series. Suns had a little bit of a problem because of Bookers injury but he is back and playing well without any issues, I am guessing Mavs will take 1 or 2 games but Suns will beat them as well, Heat could be looking great in the regular season but Harden joined late so I feel like Sixers is better right now as well.

Only game that I have absolutely no idea about is the Celtics vs Bucks. That series looks equally matched and I believe a 7 game series is not out of the question for that one.

The horrible part about the Embiid injury is that the series was basically over. Pascal seemingly threw that elbow with a little frustration that his season was coming to an end. Embiid probably shouldn’t have been in the game at that point and I hope the league looks into this more. I haven’t known Pascal to be a dirty player, but the timing on this one and the seriousness of the injury just doesn’t sit right with me. The Sixers just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to post season play. Pascal might be the new Kawhi.

Yeah, just 3 minutes left in the game and they already have huge lead, maybe Doc Rivers is still afraid that the Raptors might make a huge comeback that's why he didn't take out Joel in the game and this unfortunate thing happen.

Boston is healthy had the best game of their season when they sweep the favorite to win the championship. So it will be hard for the Sixers to even win a game without Embiid.