2024 NBA Season

[Beparanf]

Experience shows. Warriors won in a good amount of lead. Early garbage time.
But there are still a lot of errors that need fixing. Their ball rotation is different from when they are champions. 15 turnovers and most of them are from an off-target pass.
Wiggins on the other hand covered that with his great defense and did not show exhaustion helping in their offense too. Just like Steph said, "This is his time."

Many turnovers is not new on Warriors if you are watching them since the beginning of the playoffs. There ball rotation is very quick due to many fast breaks and lose balls balls is one of the cons when team is playing on this kind of tempo. They are just compensating on this error through there accuracy and consistent making play. Watching Warriors ball movement is like watching a roller coaster ride but in the end, It always work that way because they are good on 3 point shooting. They have worst number of turnovers during there fight against Grizzlies. 

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[OgNasty]

Experience shows. Warriors won in a good amount of lead. Early garbage time.
But there are still a lot of errors that need fixing. Their ball rotation is different from when they are champions. 15 turnovers and most of them are from an off-target pass.
Wiggins on the other hand covered that with his great defense and did not show exhaustion helping in their offense too. Just like Steph said, "This is his time."

 The Warriors defense definitely kept the Mavericks in check all night. Luka’s made shots weren’t easy ones and they held him to 6-18 from the field. If they can keep that up, it will be a breeze to the Finals for them. I’m glad their core team is healthy again for the first time in years to remind everyone just how great they are. Wiggins and Poole being nice additions. I just wish Wiseman was out there too. He seemed like he could really take them to the next level with his size.

[rhomelmabini]

Experience shows. Warriors won in a good amount of lead. Early garbage time.
But there are still a lot of errors that need fixing. Their ball rotation is different from when they are champions. 15 turnovers and most of them are from an off-target pass.
Wiggins on the other hand covered that with his great defense and did not show exhaustion helping in their offense too. Just like Steph said, "This is his time."

They need to show this kind of aggressiveness in order to win this Western Conference Finals since we know what's the Dallas is capable of even with the 2-0 deficit from the favorite team in the West to make it to the Finals (Suns). I hope my hunch isn't that great but what if we see another Heat vs. Mavs in the NBA Finals? Who knows? It's just a guess though.

[Russlenat]

Miami Heat have already got 1-0 ahead in their series against Boston Celtics. And truthfully, this was a thing that I was expecting to see. I knew that Celtics were incredibly good in the last games against Bucks. But this is a brand new series and Heat are also a very strong opponent for them. I expected Heat to show their quality and threaten Celtics at the same time. And they did this very well. Butler was amazing by 41 pts. And I feel like Heat will be winning the second game also but let's see.

Yup, Miami Heat did well on their 1st game and they succeed. Actually, I also expected that the first games of both conference will be dominated by Miami Heat and GSW, so it did happen. They may have a good start on the whole series but they should not lower their guard because these opposing teams are capable to eat them if they let it happen, both teams are watching for these mistakes so that they could turn it into their advantage.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Experience shows. Warriors won in a good amount of lead. Early garbage time.
But there are still a lot of errors that need fixing. Their ball rotation is different from when they are champions. 15 turnovers and most of them are from an off-target pass.
Wiggins on the other hand covered that with his great defense and did not show exhaustion helping in their offense too. Just like Steph said, "This is his time."

 The Warriors defense definitely kept the Mavericks in check all night. Luka’s made shots weren’t easy ones and they held him to 6-18 from the field. If they can keep that up, it will be a breeze to the Finals for them. I’m glad their core team is healthy again for the first time in years to remind everyone just how great they are. Wiggins and Poole being nice additions. I just wish Wiseman was out there too. He seemed like he could really take them to the next level with his size.

Yes, actually the Warriors didn't lost their title, they just become unhealthy, and then moving forward, Durant is no longer with them, but the core remain and then some good additions in Poole and Wiggins. Wiggs become a all star too with GSW so now he is proving it in this series as he is the main man to check Luka and he did great.

[püsür]

Wow what happened to Jayson Tatum last night after the second half. 22 points in the first half then essentially disappearing after that.

He probably got tired from doing almost everything from defending to scoring in the first half. They do not have Smart and Horford so he'll have to put extra effort. It's hard to keep such pace and aggressiveness for the whole game. His turnovers in the third quarter probably disrupted his rhythmn too.

Third quarter was crazy considering how Jimmy Butler scored more than the whole Celtics team. He was not only scoring greatly but also defended Tatum intensely. That 3rd quarter for Celtics was very unexpected for them but also kinda understandable since Harford and Smart were not there.

Miami Heat have already got 1-0 ahead in their series against Boston Celtics. And truthfully, this was a thing that I was expecting to see. I knew that Celtics were incredibly good in the last games against Bucks. But this is a brand new series and Heat are also a very strong opponent for them. I expected Heat to show their quality and threaten Celtics at the same time. And they did this very well. Butler was amazing by 41 pts. And I feel like Heat will be winning the second game also but let's see.

The thing is Celtics played an amazing game 6 and 7 against Bucks but they also got quite tired and in the meantime Heat were resting. And when there are key players like Smart and Halford missing, this first game win was no brainer. I also think Heat will win game second in Miami but Celtics will have to perform good again and if they will not miss any players like game 1, they might hold on to the series. But if they are missing anyone, I think Heat will win the series in 5 games or 4 probably.

[stadus]

Did Kobe also trained Jayson Tatum before? Wow! I didn't know that, what I know was is that Durant also used to train the Celtics superstar before when I think Tatum was still a high school student or somewhere in his younger years.

Yes he did. He workout with him. God, how I miss Kobe.

Anyway, Tatum and the rest of Celtics roster did a good job on defeating and eliminating two heavy teams in the league this season. Maybe I'm wrong but I think it will be the Boston Celtics vs Dallas Mavericks who will play on the Finals.

Neither wrong, nor right. All the teams that's left keeps on surprising us and might as well say it will be an unpredictable Finals and this is what most NBA fans love. No super teams, just relying on the basics to play the game with high energy on both ends of the floor.
Miami Heat may have won at the 1st game but we saw how the 20 point lead was cut easily by the Celtics. That will mean a lot to them, a chance, especially when Horford and Smart comes back.

Yes, now I know where did Jayson Tatum get that little fadeaway. If Kobe was alive until today, I'm sure he could've helped more aspiring NBA athletes and certainly he's proud of what Jayson Tatum had become. Sadly we cannot see Kobe anymore watching some games or teaching aspirants, ofcourse, who won't miss Kobe Bryant.

I found some article about Kobe and Tatum, here:
https://985thesportshub.com/2021/07/02/jayson-tatum-reveals-the-greatest-lesson-he-learned-from-kobe-bryant/

[dimonstration]

Experience shows. Warriors won in a good amount of lead. Early garbage time.
But there are still a lot of errors that need fixing. Their ball rotation is different from when they are champions. 15 turnovers and most of them are from an off-target pass.
Wiggins on the other hand covered that with his great defense and did not show exhaustion helping in their offense too. Just like Steph said, "This is his time."

 The Warriors defense definitely kept the Mavericks in check all night. Luka’s made shots weren’t easy ones and they held him to 6-18 from the field. If they can keep that up, it will be a breeze to the Finals for them. I’m glad their core team is healthy again for the first time in years to remind everyone just how great they are. Wiggins and Poole being nice additions. I just wish Wiseman was out there too. He seemed like he could really take them to the next level with his size.

This is the ultimate weakness of Mavericks, The rest of the team is not performing well if Luka can't lead them to get te momentum. Dinwiddie & Brunson game is always relying to Luka leadership as we notice many times during there fight against Suns. Luka just don't have good guard when they are fighting gainst Suns and also Doncic seems so tired on the 2nd half since he is not making anymore. Unlike GSW that has Poole and Klay to cover in 2nd half whenever Curry is already slow down on scoring.

Klay Thompson is now improved. He is now driving often times whenever he knows that his shooting accuracy is bad just like what Curry doing. This is very dangerous because all the 3 main scorer of GSW is now capable to do an inside attack flawlessly.

[Oasisman]

Miami Heat have already got 1-0 ahead in their series against Boston Celtics. And truthfully, this was a thing that I was expecting to see. I knew that Celtics were incredibly good in the last games against Bucks. But this is a brand new series and Heat are also a very strong opponent for them. I expected Heat to show their quality and threaten Celtics at the same time. And they did this very well. Butler was amazing by 41 pts. And I feel like Heat will be winning the second game also but let's see.

I'm kinda rooting for the Celtics to win the series though the Heat are a finals bound type of team since they showed their potential during the bubble. However, I have always been looking forward for this young Celtics to reach the Finals. They always have the heart to win and we have seen it when they fought hard against the Bucks in a full 7 game series.
That game 1 loss doesn't define the whole outcome, If they could even up the series in game 2, then I can say they'll have a better chances.

[Bttzed03]

What's your prediction for the next match (Heat remains a huge favorite @1.60)? Marcus Smart will probably return for game 2 against the Heat while Horford is listed as doubtful. I expect Jimmy to have a difficult night because of Marcus but he has teammates like Herro that could step up. I also anticipate a low scoring game (under 205).

[Hypnosis00]

Experience shows. Warriors won in a good amount of lead. Early garbage time.
But there are still a lot of errors that need fixing. Their ball rotation is different from when they are champions. 15 turnovers and most of them are from an off-target pass.
Wiggins on the other hand covered that with his great defense and did not show exhaustion helping in their offense too. Just like Steph said, "This is his time."

 The Warriors defense definitely kept the Mavericks in check all night. Luka’s made shots weren’t easy ones and they held him to 6-18 from the field. If they can keep that up, it will be a breeze to the Finals for them. I’m glad their core team is healthy again for the first time in years to remind everyone just how great they are. Wiggins and Poole being nice additions. I just wish Wiseman was out there too. He seemed like he could really take them to the next level with his size.

Yes, actually the Warriors didn't lost their title, they just become unhealthy, and then moving forward, Durant is no longer with them, but the core remain and then some good additions in Poole and Wiggins. Wiggs become a all star too with GSW so now he is proving it in this series as he is the main man to check Luka and he did great.

They don't need Durant, they are more exciting to watch with the original big 3 (KT, Curry, and Green), they started the Warriors and now they are close to be in the NBA Finals once again. Mavericks has to make the right adjustment to at least compete well with the Warriors because game 1 was a total one sided game only.

[Botnake]

Experience shows. Warriors won in a good amount of lead. Early garbage time.
But there are still a lot of errors that need fixing. Their ball rotation is different from when they are champions. 15 turnovers and most of them are from an off-target pass.
Wiggins on the other hand covered that with his great defense and did not show exhaustion helping in their offense too. Just like Steph said, "This is his time."

 The Warriors defense definitely kept the Mavericks in check all night. Luka’s made shots weren’t easy ones and they held him to 6-18 from the field. If they can keep that up, it will be a breeze to the Finals for them. I’m glad their core team is healthy again for the first time in years to remind everyone just how great they are. Wiggins and Poole being nice additions. I just wish Wiseman was out there too. He seemed like he could really take them to the next level with his size.

Yes, actually the Warriors didn't lost their title, they just become unhealthy, and then moving forward, Durant is no longer with them, but the core remain and then some good additions in Poole and Wiggins. Wiggs become a all star too with GSW so now he is proving it in this series as he is the main man to check Luka and he did great.

They don't need Durant, they are more exciting to watch with the original big 3 (KT, Curry, and Green), they started the Warriors and now they are close to be in the NBA Finals once again. Mavericks has to make the right adjustment to at least compete well with the Warriors because game 1 was a total one sided game only.

They are almost unbeatable with Durant playing with them, now, they are not that kind of team but they are still exciting to watch. I would be happy to see if the Warriors will win in the Finals as that's the statement that they really don't need Durant to win.

this ; https://nba.nbcsports.com/2018/11/16/draymond-green-reportedly-told-kevin-durant-we-dont-need-you-we-won-without-you-leave/

Draymond Green reportedly told Kevin Durant: ‘We don’t need you. We won without you. Leave’

[Yaunfitda]

What's your prediction for the next match (Heat remains a huge favorite @1.60)? Marcus Smart will probably return for game 2 against the Heat while Horford is listed as doubtful. I expect Jimmy to have a difficult night because of Marcus but he has teammates like Herro that could step up. I also anticipate a low scoring game (under 205).

We will see how Butler with adjust if Smart jumps on him. They throw a 3 man rotation on him in the first game and all of them failed to limit his game. So it's time for Smart to guard and let's see how he will fair with Butler. But I doubt it though, maybe another 30 points performance for him and the Heat covering the -3.5 opening odds.

[LogitechMouse]

Experience shows. Warriors won in a good amount of lead. Early garbage time.
But there are still a lot of errors that need fixing. Their ball rotation is different from when they are champions. 15 turnovers and most of them are from an off-target pass.
Wiggins on the other hand covered that with his great defense and did not show exhaustion helping in their offense too. Just like Steph said, "This is his time."

Luka's performance right now is considered garbage but it doesn't mean that it will be the same the whole series. I believe that the Mavericks will make adjustments after this game. Its only Game 1 and anything can still happen.

I think the defense of the Warriors is too much for him that he just been held on 6/18 shooting while on the Warriors, 7 players are in double figures. This really is the time for the Warriors to redeem.

Yes, actually the Warriors didn't lost their title, they just become unhealthy, and then moving forward, Durant is no longer with them, but the core remain and then some good additions in Poole and Wiggins. Wiggs become a all star too with GSW so now he is proving it in this series as he is the main man to check Luka and he did great.

They don't need Durant, they are more exciting to watch with the original big 3 (KT, Curry, and Green), they started the Warriors and now they are close to be in the NBA Finals once again. Mavericks has to make the right adjustment to at least compete well with the Warriors because game 1 was a total one sided game only.

They won a championship without Durant and now they have Poole and Wiggins which aren't as good as Durant but still can give at least 10 points every night. I'm pretty sure that the Warriors are capable this season in getting another title but still I'm not ruling out the Mavericks who just eliminated the Suns.

[ultrloa]

What's your prediction for the next match (Heat remains a huge favorite @1.60)? Marcus Smart will probably return for game 2 against the Heat while Horford is listed as doubtful. I expect Jimmy to have a difficult night because of Marcus but he has teammates like Herro that could step up. I also anticipate a low scoring game (under 205).

We will see how Butler with adjust if Smart jumps on him. They throw a 3 man rotation on him in the first game and all of them failed to limit his game. So it's time for Smart to guard and let's see how he will fair with Butler. But I doubt it though, maybe another 30 points performance for him and the Heat covering the -3.5 opening odds.

Maybe that will be the result but I'm expect a huge changes on the game of Celtics as Smart is back on their rotation and we know how big he can contribute so maybe he is the missing piece of the Celtics to win in game 2. But this is so tough for them knowing that Heat got the momentum and been quietly done so well recently and I think Heat still has the huge chance to win on game 2.

[Kelvinid]

What's your prediction for the next match (Heat remains a huge favorite @1.60)? Marcus Smart will probably return for game 2 against the Heat while Horford is listed as doubtful. I expect Jimmy to have a difficult night because of Marcus but he has teammates like Herro that could step up. I also anticipate a low scoring game (under 205).

We will see how Butler with adjust if Smart jumps on him. They throw a 3 man rotation on him in the first game and all of them failed to limit his game. So it's time for Smart to guard and let's see how he will fair with Butler. But I doubt it though, maybe another 30 points performance for him and the Heat covering the -3.5 opening odds.

Maybe that will be the result but I'm expect a huge changes on the game of Celtics as Smart is back on their rotation and we know how big he can contribute so maybe he is the missing piece of the Celtics to win in game 2. But this is so tough for them knowing that Heat got the momentum and been quietly done so well recently and I think Heat still has the huge chance to win on game 2.

No doubt about that, Heat has a good chance of winning but Celtics has never been down 0-2 in the playoffs. I think if Celtics will lose, it will be via close game and I like to risk on the handicap which is currently +3.5.

[emrecemsan]

Miami Heat and Golden State Warriors started the conference finals in a great way. They both got solid wins in the first game of their series. Warriors had the first game last night and they won by almost 30 points. It was a humiliating lose for Mavericks I think. After seeing that great performance against Suns, I wasn't expecting them to give up on this game this easy. But I will be expecting more resistance from them in the second game. However I feel like Heat and Warriors both will bring their series to 2-0.

[Pamadar]

What's your prediction for the next match (Heat remains a huge favorite @1.60)? Marcus Smart will probably return for game 2 against the Heat while Horford is listed as doubtful. I expect Jimmy to have a difficult night because of Marcus but he has teammates like Herro that could step up. I also anticipate a low scoring game (under 205).

We will see how Butler with adjust if Smart jumps on him. They throw a 3 man rotation on him in the first game and all of them failed to limit his game. So it's time for Smart to guard and let's see how he will fair with Butler. But I doubt it though, maybe another 30 points performance for him and the Heat covering the -3.5 opening odds.

He's been consistent producing good numbers this season, he always wants to take the challenge.

It's interesting how Smart will manage to guard him and maybe limit his numbers, or Butler will continue to work more
aggressively and still their top scorer. We will see how both teams will manage and who will step up from both sides. Tatum
and Butler's leadership will be tested once again. Who will win? That's the question to answer this coming game 2.

[Sanitough]

What's your prediction for the next match (Heat remains a huge favorite @1.60)? Marcus Smart will probably return for game 2 against the Heat while Horford is listed as doubtful. I expect Jimmy to have a difficult night because of Marcus but he has teammates like Herro that could step up. I also anticipate a low scoring game (under 205).

We will see how Butler with adjust if Smart jumps on him. They throw a 3 man rotation on him in the first game and all of them failed to limit his game. So it's time for Smart to guard and let's see how he will fair with Butler. But I doubt it though, maybe another 30 points performance for him and the Heat covering the -3.5 opening odds.

He's been consistent producing good numbers this season, he always wants to take the challenge.

It's interesting how Smart will manage to guard him and maybe limit his numbers, or Butler will continue to work more
aggressively and still their top scorer. We will see how both teams will manage and who will step up from both sides. Tatum
and Butler's leadership will be tested once again. Who will win? That's the question to answer this coming game 2.

Heat has the home court advantage, if their shooter will continue to produce, that would give them a good chance of winning in game 2. I don't expect Butler to score 41 points again, maybe the defense will focus on him and he will be limited a bit, so let's see how the game would go.

[yazher]

Miami Heat and Golden State Warriors started the conference finals in a great way. They both got solid wins in the first game of their series. Warriors had the first game last night and they won by almost 30 points. It was a humiliating lose for Mavericks I think. After seeing that great performance against Suns, I wasn't expecting them to give up on this game this easy. But I will be expecting more resistance from them in the second game. However I feel like Heat and Warriors both will bring their series to 2-0.

Since both teams have enough experience climbing the NBA finals, more likely these two will gonna win against their current opponent and proceed to compete in the NBA finals. I watched the game earlier and it seems like the Mavs cannot do anything about the GSW defensive strategy and they are like playing hard while the GSW are just playing them. Unlike the Boston Celtics, the Mavs are struggling with their star players on the court, and too bad for them, Luka is not doing well because he's hurt in his shoulder.