Or at least Davis should be healthy. If he is healthy 100% and playing at home then we should expect to have a good game from him and taking the lead from Lebron James. The problem is that we don't know if he is not feeling anything, for Lebron I think he has twisted his ankle on game 2 but I think he can go and play at home because this is a must win for him.


It's very unusual for the Celtics to lost back to back at home and Tatum cant' find his rhythm. But remember they are down 3-2 against the Sixers and won one at the road and then finished them at home. So let's see if they can steal game 3 against the Heat and then make game 4 crucial for both team.

They are playing at home, so at least they have a good chance to win, at least they just needed 1 game to just bring back the confidence of the team. They need all the help they can get from the players that bring them to this series. D'Lo will have to step up and Dennis Schröder is the key here. But as far as numbers goes?


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Celtics is a different story, they have the homecourt advantage in this series, they are the second best them in the East agains the number 8 seed in the Heat. But they've lost both games at Boston Celtics and now they will have to travel to a hostile crowd just to get a win and then comeback to tie the series. It's going to be very difficult for them to make back to back wins at the road. It will take a lot, both physical and mental to bring the best, specially from Tatum and Brown to lead the team.

As per their odds in Stake, the Boston Celtics are still the favorite for Game 3 of their Conference Finals against the Miami Heat. I am also not sure about going for the Celtics on their game 3 but I will risk some for the team. I do not think the players are lacking to defeat the Miami Heat. I think it is the coaching that needs improvement in this series. Joe Mazzulla is outcoached by a more veteran Erik Spoelstra in game 2. That should improve since the players rely very much on their coaching, especially in the late game of each match. The Celtics are on the road but it does not mean they cannot win against the Heat. A lot of teams have recovered from a 2-0 deficit before. What they do not want is falling into a 3-0 or 3-1 hole. If they do, it is pretty much a Miami series.




That is bad for the Lakers if that is their history going on a 0-2 deficit. Some could argue that they do not have Lebron James when those happened, but Lebron James is having a bad performance as well. He could not take over in the deciding minutes of the game. Both in game 1 and game 2, he missed clutch shots that could have turned the tables against the Nuggets. I do not know if his feet are bothering him, but he really is having the worst performance right now. It is not shown in the stat sheets but if you lose the ball in the dying minutes or missed layups and open shots that should be clutch, then all your points, assist, and rebounds in the early part of the game is meaningless. All those stats are nothing is you do not perform when it matters.

Closing games. They are not good at it, especially Jayson Tatum. He is the one expected to step up his game in the last 12 minutes of the game and yet the same as in Game 1 he didn't make any field goal. They must change that if they want to steal at least 1 win in Miami. Then, someone on their bench must step up his game, and feel the energy of the Conference Finals because compared to the Heat roster, they are way better than them on both ends of the floor and they are showing how it's done even if they are undermanned.

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Jamal Murray starts hot today. 30 points in the first half and he will definitely add more in the 2nd half.
Nikola Jokic on the other hand is not that much aggressive yet. He must be preserving his energy and will show it later in the 2nd half, we will see.
Despite the big start of Jamal, the Lakers are only down by 3.

Oh WOW, Denver!
3:0 versus the Lakers with yet another dominating performance!
They didn't even need Jokic to have a monster game, just a normal one was enough tp win in LK.

Not sure if you guys know, Denver has not only never won the championship before, they never played in the finals as well!
The way this is going they can plan for the finals. I also think they will win the whole thing.
With Boston having their back on the wall, these finals can come faster than expected. There might be a chance to see a double sweep in the conference finals this year, not sure if this ever happened.

Looking forward to the Miami game today/tomorrow. If Miami can defend their home court both series stand at 3:0, who would have thought.

It's too early to say about getting their first title.


Yeah, it was Carmelo Anthony's time during the Nuggets, prime Anthony and Kenyon Martin and Billups vs Kobe and Paul Gasol. I guess Nuggets or Jokic has learn a lot from that series against the Lakers in the bubble. It's now a prime Jokic and Jamal Murray. Lakers and Lebron and Davis looks very tired at this point and now down 3-0 and might be a sweep or at least Lakers can still win 1 game and make it 4-1.

Boston vs Miami series is not done yet since Boston could bounce back after their two defeats with Miami but its so hard for them to do this knowing that Miami gain so much confidence for getting that big wins against this supposed to be title contender team. If Miami continue to dominate Celtics tomorrows match up then maybe we can see Miami vs Denver in finals. This would be a great match up knowing that they have championship drought for long years especially with Denver which didn't win a championship yet and maybe this will be their first championship this year.

I think everyone is starting to accept that the Lakers are over in this series now. It's a miracle the Lakers made it to the finals after losing 3 games, I don't think they can do that.
Again, Murray played very well and had a huge impact on the win. We can say that the first team in the final was the Denver Nuggets.
I think we're going to watch a finale between Jokic and Butler

Both teams, Nuggets and Heat have no loss, maybe this is already the future sight that we're seeing on who's going to face each other in the finals.

I also don't think that they'll be able to beat the Nuggets with a straight 4 games. That's highly unlikely and let's just say that it is impossible, if there's a team that has done that, I can't forget if there's a team that managed to sweep their opponent like that in a conference finals match.

It may be hard to accept for LBJ and Lakers fans but that's the reality and that is Nuggets are just the stronger team these days. And they might even get this season's ring.

unfortunately even though the math still holds some hope for the lakers, on paper it is obvious that the lakers have no chance of reversing the current scenario, it is impossible to imagine the lakers winning 4 games in a row, so the maximum that the lakers can do at this point and try to win at least 1 or 2 games to preserve lakers honor, that's all. in terms of performance, the nuggets are much better than the lakers, I have no doubts about that, just see that in the 3 games in which the nuggtes won, they at least won with at least a difference of 5 points and in the game today was worse, there were 11 points of difference

when the game started in the first period the lakers lost by 12 points of difference, it was already an announcement that a big black cloud would be over the lakers, but fortunately in the second period the lakers managed to win by a difference of 9 points and it was a good indicator that they could win the game, and in the third period the lakers managed to win by a difference of only 1 point, but unfortunately in the fourth period the dark cloud returned to the lakers who lost by a difference of 9 points making them lose all games, clearly that everything is already lost. but at least the lakers need to work hard to win at least 1 game