What did we watch? That was a crazy game. There was great excitement in the last part of the match, but it wasn't possible to talk about quality basketball. Wolves couldn't score for 5 minutes in the last quarter, they had serious problems on offense. Towns couldn't do anything in both offense and defense after receiving 5 fouls. Edwards played maybe his worst game ever. Conley kept them in the game, but that wasn't enough. Both teams had a record number of turnovers. They made mistake after mistake in important times. Wolves would've won this game comfortably if Edwards had played just a little bit better. We can say that Schröder was the player of the match. LeBron looks incredibly tired.
Somehow they got themselves into the play-off but Lakers have a tough job with this game against Memphis.

A LeBron vs KD matchup might not happen if LeBron gets eliminated in the first round and the Suns lose to Leonard with an improving Westbrook. We have great matchups in the first round, and this playoffs, the Grizzlies will be tested and might stop their 'dynasty' again, LOL.

Anyways, the Timberwolves still have a chance; they just need to win the game they will be hosting to get the last spot. Edwards needs to come up with a big game, as he struggled big time in this game.

The Timberwolves had a very good 3-point shooting in the 1st half, but it was lost in the 2nd half. I think the problem was KAT getting into early foul trouble. He was limited in the 2nd half, which gave the Lakers a chance to come back. A team like the Wolves, with a lack of playoff experience, will never advance to a higher level as they were pretty much exposed in this game.


Yeah, it's not surprising to me as Trae Young is really good in the playoffs. Look how he played; he was very focused and they were playing with great chemistry. Personally, I would not be surprised if they upset the Celtics in the first round.

I'm sorry for posting it here, but this picture really is something unusual for me . I mean we've seen Lillard's Dame Time gesture, but this gesture is the one I've seen for the first time, and it's just very good to see your teammates having the same gesture after hitting a game-winning shot. Unfortunately, Davis spoiled it with his foul against Conley, but he apologized in an interview.

The Lakers are 10-2 when Schroeder is scoring 10+ points, and now he got 21 to help his team retain that 7th seed and will face the Grizzlies. TBH, I'm not impressed with how the Lakers played tonight. Many expected this to be a one-sided game because of the problems that the Wolves got. No Gobert, no McDaniels, no Reid, Towns in foul trouble, Edwards not having a good night, and the Lakers are down almost the whole game, but anyway, a win is a win, and I hope that they will not play the same when they face the Grizzlies.

P.S. The Timberwolves has now 19 losses after leading by 10+ points. It's the 2nd most in the NBA this season.

I don't know what's the problem with the Heat this season. I mean they're the last in terms of scoring, and they've been having a hard time winning this whole season. In this game against the Hawks in their home, the Heat are down by as high as 21 points, and whenever the Heat will make a run, the Hawks will make their own as well. It's like they are just trading points, and can't defend at all. Anyway, they lost, and will wait for the winner of the 9th-10th match-up in the East.

Davis though, Lol, not sure why he fouled Conley on that attempt, if it just 2 point lead, then maybe they have lost the game with Conley's icing 3 free throws. But it did take a lot from the Lakers to win in this game, they should have easily won because Gobert is not there. Lebron has to dig on his bag of tricks to salvage this game for good. Yeah, turnovers from both team, but at least the Lakers won.

Also the Miami Heat losing to Trae's Atlanta, seems that age has catch up with the Heat.

I do agree that some drastic changes is needed, Pat Riley will have to decide, who's who he will trade and who stays.

Very hard to predict that OKC still has some good players that might upset the Pelicans, SGA for sure will have to elevate in this game. Although BI and CJ could be a problem for the OKC, specially BI who is really good in their last 10 games.

The initial line for the Pelicans is -5.5. Might be tempting to bet, but we will see.

Might be good to see the game first before making our bets.

Yeah, it was an exciting ending for the Wolves. They did try to win this game against the home team, but to compound efforts of all the Lakers players really work out to win the game.

With LeBron and Davis showcase their experienced it was a hard deal for KAT and Edwards lucky for the Wolves
as Conley really helps them in trying to win the game but without a good game from the two main core duo nothing
can be done to upset the Lakers.

Sorry, I realize I may have been biased in my previous message. I was happy when the game went to OT because it gave me a little hope that my team would cover the spread. When the Lakers were up by 5 points in OT, I was positive they would continue their run, but they fell short. I accept the result - it's normal to lose and I was just on the wrong side. However, I will bet on this team again in the playoffs when they are likely to be underdogs.

That's just how desperate they are to win that single game to secure their spot in the NBA playoffs because if they didn't win, surely the next game is more stressful and hard for them. As you can see they celebrate a lot when they won and if only they can play this much against Memphis, they will beat them in the 4-2 series I think. But as we know, the Grizzlies are a young team and can quickly score against them easily, they need to have a working plan on how to stop them, and when they do, their chance of going to get that championship is higher than expected this year.

Raptors though play cohesively and most of their losses are very close game, plus they still have some members, carry over from their last championship with Kahwi, so they are still a good team in my opinion.

As compare to the Bulls, who are inconsistent, there are games that you think they are a playoff bound teams. And then on the next games they are blown away by their opponents even in their homecourt.

So for me that's one factor, the experience and how the team do specially in their last 10 games or how the them losing, is it close game wherein they lost by just 5 points or less? or a complete blow out by 20 points or more.