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Playoff series: what you (think you) see may be deceiving - F Gump - 04-24-2024
1. MOMENTUM!!
The sound bite is inevitable, in a 7-games series. Sooner or later we will hear "Team X won this game, and now they have the momentum!!"
But it's nonsense.
Instead, while every win seems to have created a direction for the rest of the series, it doesn't -- that next game is a start over which will have its own player battles which can turn out any number of ways this time. Every next game ends up as a war unto itself.
And ultimately that next game will create a new narrative that will be based on the way THAT game ends, not on what came before.
Old mo' always looks like it's owned by the last team that won a game. "Team X has it figured out now!!" Don't believe it.
2. GAME 3
We will also see a strange thing happen as each series goes to game 3. All of a sudden, weirdly it may seem, the underdogs who flailed in games 1-2 might play way better. That change of location - and home court - is a funny thing in how it can make a playoff series look different.
Be ready.
RE: Playoff series: what you (think you) see may be deceiving - The Jom - 04-24-2024
Home court advantage in the NBA mostly just means home cooking from the referees. Should mean Gafford can contribute. Doesn’t mean Harden will miss 3’s.
RE: Playoff series: what you (think you) see may be deceiving - HoosierDaddyKidd - 04-24-2024
(04-24-2024, 02:08 AM)The Jom Wrote: Home court advantage in the NBA mostly just means home cooking from the referees. Should mean Gafford can contribute. Doesn’t mean Harden will miss 3’s.
Mavs finished 25-16 at home and on the road. Every game is different. What worked last game, may not the next one.
RE: Playoff series: what you (think you) see may be deceiving - MrGoat - 04-24-2024
I'm just hoping home court helps Daniel Gafford even become an entity again. If the real Daniel Gafford shows back up that's going to be a wrap for the Clippers. Winning a game where he got banged up early and did nothing again was huge. There's a cap on what this team can do in the playoffs if we have to overly rely on Maxi, that's a well established precedent
RE: Playoff series: what you (think you) see may be deceiving - KillerLeft - 04-24-2024
(04-24-2024, 05:28 PM)MrGoat Wrote: I'm just hoping home court helps Daniel Gafford even become an entity again. If the real Daniel Gafford shows back up that's going to be a wrap for the Clippers. Winning a game where he got banged up early and did nothing again was huge. There's a cap on what this team can do in the playoffs if we have to overly rely on Maxi, that's a well established precedent
But why does it have to be Gafford? To me, Lively has seemed much more up to it than Gafford.