Let's give a round of applause to Payton Pritchard for winning the sixthman of the year. Congratulations to him, I think that he's deserved it for bringing up huge numbers to the Celtics and it seems that there is not that much talk about the team here because we know that they'll beat the Orlando Magic easy.

What can you say about this? The video of Anthony Edwards' comments he made in game 1 to a random fan was all around, and some people just took this for fun.
But for NBA, it's fine for Anthony Edwards.

I think that it helped every time he makes those shots, that's noticeable because he creates some impact on it. But if they're just the normal early contributions they won't be noticed. Either way, he's a good 6th man for this season and the team itself is also a contender and likely trying to take their back to back championships.

They will overcome that and he just needs some rest if they are able to get over with this series against the Magic.

The refs aren't calling on him when he thinks that they should have called. But he has to be careful with that when it gets too much for the ref and he might get a technical, last 6 minutes and yeah still a chance for the Timberwolves to get over this game and maybe a point or two of lead just to win.

LOL, Randle did literally slapped LeBron in his face. 

Little funny thing on the site. Did anybody see the new Jordan/Luka commercial in youtube?? It's a whopping 7 minutes long and it's awesome. Some creative guy deserves a raise for this I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzvat8VBlo8

That's how you make advertisements. Almost 2 million views in 15h says it at, for a commercial.

Well, Lebron and Luka played as usual with those big numbers with each have double-double. Luka almost had triple double though as he is 1 assist shy away from having one. But, the is not actually the story of the game and how they achieve the game 2 W. It was actually the Lakers tight defense. Reid and McDaniels were being totally shut down by the Lakers defense, with how good they played in game 1, it was completely the opposite in game 2. Randle was their main man, but all those scores he made wasn't an easy buckets. He was actually struggling to get most of those shots. Edwards on the other hand has refused to step up when Randle's offense wasn't enough to catch up to the game, especially that he picked up his 5th foul in the 4th.
This series is just getting interesting. I expect the Wolves are going to retaliate in the next 2 games at home. This series will become more and more physical as the series progress for sure.

If we will also look at how the Lakers played, for most of the game, they're playing small ball with DFS as their 6th guy. Hayes played only 9 minutes more or less, but Finney-Smith played around 30 minutes. The small ball of the Lakers works especially if they have 3 guys that might be smaller, but their body is way bigger than most as well. Well, it's a must for the Lakers to win on their home after that disappointing Game 1 loss a few days ago.

Doncic led his team with an almost triple-double performance as well. James and Reaves combined for 37 points on this low-scoring game. On the other hand, as expected, ANT and Randle carried their team with a combined 52 points, but aside from that, no other players scored in double-digits already. Now the Wolves need to defend their home court after stealing one on the road.

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Speaking of stealing one on the road, we've seen many away teams winning on their opponent's home court in the first 2 games.

Clippers winning in Game 2, Warriors winning in Game 1, Wolves in Game 1, Pistons winning in Game 2.

I guess it's safe to say now that homecourt advantage is slowly decreasing already because despite having a homecourt advantage, away teams can still get a win. Correct me, but I haven't seen this much away wins in the first 2 games of the playoffs. 4 might be low, but it's higher than last season, or 2 seasons ago.

Gobert is inconsistent and that's huge liability for their team. If they just trade him and retain KAT before then provably that Wolves would became more scary. But they choose him and now they suffer defensively and that shows on todays game.

But somehow its amazing display of performance shown by Luka since we could see how dominant he is on early quarter of this game. Seeing how the flow of the game we could see that Lakers have the best shot to advance in next round if Wolves cannot solve their lapses and other inconsistent performances.

Also got amazed with work ethics of LBJ since we could see that he prepares for this game for coming early and that pays off for talking the win on game 2.

With him taking the advantage inside he may create space for their scorers, it more on the coach side if how they'll be able to maximize the use of him, they need to maximize he's full potential he needs to help as he got the advantage Lakers don't have that big to match him up ANT and Randle can drop the ball in him inside and take that easy dunk.

More on adjusting to a system that may allow them to rotate and not for their superstars to keep on attacking and producing offense but to play as a team and find that open man to take high percentage attempts.

Luka Doncic showed why the Mavs made a big mistake. 31 points, 12 rebounds, and 9 assists. 1 assist shy of a triple-double. It's a low-scoring game, and it was focused more on defense, which is my kind of game. The three-point shooting percentage on both sides is very low, and I think the key to winning that match was ball rotation. Good thing the Lakers have Luka now, who is really great at finding open men.

Anyway, the playoffs had always been a battle of adjustments. The Timberwolves still have the upper hand after stealing one game from the Lakers' home.

The Lakers have responded, although Edwards try to do his best as he had that one crazy dunk against Hayes, it's not enough for them to overcome the big lead that Luka and the Lakers have put early. And then one of the player that help them secure that big win in the first game had foul trouble, Naz Reid.

So Anthony Edwards is quiet in this game, can't do anything or taunt Luka or trash talk the whole Lakers because they've lost. On the contrary if was Luka who are taunting the whole Wolves them.