04-04-2024, 03:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2024, 03:57 AM by HoosierDaddyKid.)
(04-04-2024, 02:49 AM)Knutsen Wrote: I‘m with you on most of your points, but I would add the Bucks before the Clippers and the Mavs. They need to stay healthy of course, but they have the championship experience in their core and a hungry and clutch killer in Lillard. Wouldn’t surprise me if they are able to knock out the Celtics in a playoff series.
I also fear that we are overrating our Mavs a little bit - but hope to be wrong - because we‘re lacking good two way players. Our guys are either great on offense or great on defense and I hope that won‘t get exposed in a playoff series. PJ has the potential to be good on both sides, Green does as well and Lively maybe in a year or two, but nobody proved it consistently this year.
The Bucks? They just lost to the Wizards on the road, and Memphis just beat them on the road, for the season sweep. They allowed 76 pts in the paint to the undermanned Grizzlies, the most in the NBA this season. The Bucks could get bounced in the 1st round. The Mavs role players have to shoot well every game to beat the good teams in a 7 game series. We know what we're getting from Luka and Kyrie.