Same to Lakers, a huge deficit will definitely give them a huge opportunity to win the series and reach the WCF once again. If they aren't arguing over some silly mistake then that shouldn't have been this way, Philly should work out more on that defensive side, or else they'll lose once again this time.

I also believe this series is a chess match between these great coaches. This series will go back and forth, and adjustments will be made to counter the other team. Instead of just pointing fingers or blaming a single player, fans should also look on the adjustments that each team are making to counter the opposing team. In this game, the Lakers made good adjustments and was able to win the game. I expect the Warriors to make adjustments next game and force a tie on the road. They have home advantage in this series, so if they will be able to tie the series in game 4, they are still on to win this series.


I do not know if the Lakers or the Warriors are potential champions, but I know whoever wins this series will have a hard time whoever win in the series between Suns and Nuggets. Especially if the Nuggets win their series, Laker or Warriors will have a hard time to deal against a healthy Nuggets. Now that Jamal and Jokic are both healthy and on the floor, I think it is their time to win the Conference and finally get a chance for an NBA championship. They are consistent and have a really strong supporting cast. But I am getting ahead of myself.

Sure, if the Warriors can make the proper adjustment and force a win on the road in game 4, I expect this series to go all the way to game 7. But if they fail to win game 4, there is no going out on a 3-1 hole for them.


I bet the odds will be very tempting so I will bet for the Warriors. They were able to pull the stop to win on the road against the Kings in their first round series, so it will not be too hard for them to pull a road win on this series as well. Hopefully, Steve Kerr will be able to devise a plan to counter the offense of the Hachimura and Reaves while limiting Lebron and Davis. They just need 1 road win and win all their home games to win the series. I am sure they will put all the stops to win the next game.

^^ Sixers escape with a big win, in OT, Harden's 3 at the corner was enough to give them a 1 point lead with 15 seconds to go and the Celtics not calling any timeout. It was iso on Tatum but he has to give up the ball to Smart who drain the 3 but there was not enough time in the clock.

And this is what we come for, although everyone is interested on the match up in the West, but I think the Sixers vs Boston is a good series as well and maybe  the winner here could eventually become the NBA champion, just my speculation.

Expect nothing less when two rivals clash in the playoffs. That was some nice end-to-end action to close out game 4 hehe. I really thought Celtics would take it after leading by five in the final two minutes. Good job to both teams for an entertaining series so far.

There's always that possibility. Celtics is the more likely team to take it all if they win against the Sixers.

It's hard to argue with that. Jokic putting up monster numbers while KD and Booker not letting him take all the glory.

It is what it is. We can only enjoy as fans and bet of course.

AD may have something to say if they manage finish of the Warriors.

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Suns finally get some breathing space but there's still plenty of time.
Damn Shamet doing some serious damage in the 4th hehehe. Didn't see that one coming.

That Suns game was crazy. Jokic put up 53 points on 66% shooting from the field and they lost! Booker’s efficient night on 14-18 shooting along with Durant making a ton of free throws gave them the tiniest edge to tie up the series. Gives me hope that I might see a LeBron vs Durant series in the next round which would be awesome.

That push by Jokic going to get him suspended?

I still cannot believe that Lakers got such an easy win but the really nice thing about the game is that Lebron had no field goal attempts at all at first quarter and he still ended up with 20+ points (8 rebounds and 8 assists to go with) to show that Lakers is good even without him scoring a bunch, dude could just play good defense and pass the ball and they can still win. It was always obvious that Warriors had absolutely no answer at all to AD and that showed once again.

This series is not over yet, it's only 2-1 and we can see some changes, I am sure Kerr is working overtime to get the win, can't say how or when or what kind of solution he would bring in, but he will make some changes to just end up leveling the playing field, otherwise Lakers would get it 4-1 easily.

Really hard to say, the West is still loaded though so we really don't know as of yet. Although Celtics is a complete team and their losses are very close so far. The thing is that t his second round, the match up is up to par and we are not going to see at least a sweep or a team winning just 1 game.

GSW is down but they can still manage to turn it if they win the next game.

Same with the Suns, they are going to play at their home court and the way the duo of Booker and Durant is playing, the Nuggets will have to play high level on both offense and defense.

I'm rooting for the 76ers to win the series because of James Harden, the guy has been playing well till today and he just can't get through to get back to the NBA finals again but this time his chance has increased because of Embiid playing well and maybe when they gonna win the next game with of course from the hard battle against the Celtics, they will gonna easily win it next series because the opponent is not that hard to beat though but they need to get through the Celtics first because they are right now facing the hardest playoff opponent in a series this year.

Agree to that, Celtics will be doing the adjustments that they need to win game 5.

It's almost a win earlier if that last shot from Smart did make the cloak, but luckily he still holding the ball and the time runs out.
These semifinals are really making fans to love and support their favorite teams and players, with how they execute the plays and how
they putting the defense, something that needs to make a good adjustment for both competing teams.