It's the first time Santos have been relegated to Serie B.
It's incredible how badly the team has played this season, of course it's bad for the team in general, but it's an opportunity for the team to reorganize itself, have a good Serie B and come back in 2025 with full power. It's happened to other big teams and they've all recovered

The work of the Portuguese coach - Abel Ferreira, has been incredible.
Do you think he will continue for another season?

Isso é para fechar acordos, acomodar todos os partidos dentro do governo, dar uma fatia para cada um e todos poderem levar um pouco....

Você sabe quantos tempo no Brasil?

Temos incríveis 38 ministérios.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minist%C3%A9rios_do_Brasil

Two matches today, and again, pretty hard to predict

To add more emotion to this end, Palmeiras could lose the next match and Botafogo, Atlético and Gremio win their matches, so they all be at first place with 66 points, it would be awesome 

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It's a battle of number 3 (OKC) and number 4 (Dallas) in the West. This should be a great match, but unfortunately, we might not be able to witness a full strenght Dallas in this game as there are players who are listed as questionable to play, such as Hardaway Jr. and their main star Luka Doncic who missed the last game.

They are on a mission this season, they failed on the last season but they have a good chance of making it to the playoffs as they are a more improve team with Chet playing his first regular season with the NBA. Looking at the production of Chet, we can easily say that he's been one of the biggest reason why OKC has become a very consistent now, and with SGA's consistent contribution as well, it's almost certain they'll make it, the question now is how far they can go once already in the playoffs.

Oklahoma City Thunder performed really well. In the second quarter, they performed better than anyone expected. I never thought that they were going to make such a big difference in one quarter that it will be really hard for their opponent to overcome. But that happened. They performed so well in the second quarter that it was almost impossible for the Lakers to make a comeback. But it was a good performance from Oklahoma, and they deserve credit for that.

Well, it ended not being a surprise after all, because since before this championship started Palmeiras has been the favorite one to win the next title, due to their awesome previous campaign last year. We are just seeing things going back to the normal which was expected.

It would have been a big surprise if Botafogo had kept its position, winning Brasileirão 2023, against all the initial predictions we had at the beginning of the year.

Palmeiras winning is also a victory of gamblers who go for the favorites, instead of underdogs.

See?
Almost impossible to predict, Flamengo playing at home, needing to win at any cost, lost to Atlético MG and 3x0 
I would have lost money on that bet
Lucky for those who believed and got the odds of 5.20

It would be but really the Warriors beat themselves.  Sacramento shot 20 free throws in the third quarter AND they had 20 turnovers in the game.  On the road and they still only lost bull a last minute bucket.  Not taking anything away from Sacramento but they shoukd have blown out the Warriors last night.  In the playoffs that's not gonna fly.

Yes, it's harder, some teams are nervous, anxious and the results become more difficulty to predict, this is the reason I wont bet in this match, I'll only watch and observe
The odds are totally for Flamengo win, paying 1.74 while Atletico MG win pays 5.20

Palmeiras will almost sure win the match against America (poor America, the last team in the table), but only pays 1.24
Botafogo win is paying 1.75

Not really embarrassing. The Kings have been playing great basketball since last year and they continue to prove it this year, and the Warriors on the other hand really kinda suck early this season, especially Klay who seems to have lost his impact to his team.
Let's see if they could turn the table around and improve eventually.
It's also good to see for both of this team face in the playoffs again.

I also agree with both of you. Palmeiras is now the favorite team (again) to win the title, not only because of the number of points, but because the next games are theoretically easier
It doesn't mean it's already won, but I think Palmeiras have a better chance than Flamengo and Botafogo

It may not seem like it, but Botafogo still have a chance, it's incredible, simply incredible how in 5 games the team hasn't won a single game, they've only scored 3 points out of 15
It's hard to believe that a team that started so well has blown its best chance of winning a title in years

The Flamengo vs Atletico MG game tomorrow is going to be exciting, it's that game that's worth six points 

Pretty hard to make good bets in the next rounds

Looking at Flamengo's next games:

Flamengo - Atletico

This will be a very difficult game for Flamengo to win, Atletico has been a team with an excellent performance this season, they have not had any defeat in the last 5 games, and this same season when they played against Palmeiras they won 2 - 0, They didn't concede a goal and scored 2 goals, this same season when they played against Botafogo, they also managed to win and won without conceding a goal, but when they played against Flamengo they lost and conceded 2 goals, but managed to score 1 goal. In other words, this season Atletico only lost to Flamengo when it comes to clashes with the current top teams, if Flamengo manages to beat Atletico again, they will still have more difficult games left to play.

Flamengo - Cuiaba

This will also be another difficult game for Flamengo, their opponent Cuiaba hasn't lost in 4 games, they have a bad defense in which they have already conceded many goals but they can get a draw in the game against Flamengo, that's why in my opinion we have Seeing how Cuiaba will do in the next game against the international, if they lose they could have low morale and if Flamengo wins they will go into this game with more optimism.

Sao Paulo - Flamengo

This in my opinion will be the only less difficult game of the last games of this round, so if Flamengo wins the next 2 games, then in this game Flamengo would be more comfortable because they would face an opponent who probably won't have anything to motivate them to make an effort a lot, for that São Paulo only needs to win in one of the next 2 games to guarantee their stay in the Brasileirao and if that happens, in the last game against Flamengo they won't have any reason to make an effort

Now the case of palmeiras is something very good for them, they will only have 1 game against a strong team and 2 games against weak teams, I clearly see a greater chance of palmeiras becoming champions. Palmeiras is close to losing in the game against Fortaleza because one of the Palmeiras players got a red card in the 59th minute, I think that if that hadn't happened, Palmeiras would have been able to win the game.

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They're two teams that surprised me positively, and both will probably play in the Sudamerican Cup next year, which will help them gain a lot more experience
I also hope that one day these teams can be champions
Fortaleza came very close, they came second in the Sudamericana this year, they almost won the biggest title in their history, but that's the way it is, one day the title happens
They are doing a great championship this year, better than Corinthians, Vasco, Cruzeiro, Santos and other bigger teams