1. Boston +4
At the beginning of this series I stated this would be a very good chess match between both coaches, their coaching staffs and the players... It's lived up to that... I believe Kerr and his coaching staff don't have anymore adjustments... We'll see what Udoka has tonight...
Game 4 was called The Steph Curry Adjustment... Whatever Boston threw at him, drop coverage, blitz, didn't matter Steph figured it out and made the right basketball play almost every time, he had an amazing performance... His basketball IQ is extremely High... I know there are a lot of people that are saying oh Boston could have done this or that defensively... in my opinion they played excellent defense on him...
If you want to see the high basketball IQ that was being played by Boston's defense and Steph Curry you definitely want to check out Heat Check on YouTube it has 579,000 subscribers...The Creator of heat check has a short video where he's showing the different looks that Boston was giving Steph and him figuring it out throughout the entire. game...
Boston is 8-3 SU and 8-2-1 Ats on the road in these playoffs but if you remove Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals (No Al Horford and no Marcus Smart) they are 8-2 SU and 8-1-1 Ats on the road.
Boston is also 7-0 SU and Ats off a loss in these playoffs. 4 of those Bounceback wins were on the road...In those Road games they're averaging 113ppg and holding their opponents to 100ppg... Even if you want to remove the outlier game which was Game 2 against the Miami Heat, they're still holding their opponents to 100ppg and scoring 108ppg.
My only concerns are:
1. Golden State plays excellent at home... Golden State is 10-1 SU and 8-3 Ats at home in these playoffs. Avg...116 ppg and holding their opponents to 104ppg.
2. All 4 of those bounce back wins on the road were all desperation situations for Boston...and this one's tied 2-2
Game 4 against the Bucks they were down 1-2... They didn't want to go down 1-3...
Game 6 against the Bucks they were down 2-3... That was a win or go home scenario...
Game 2 against Miami they were down 0-1... They really did not want to go down 0-2
Game 7 against Miami was win or go home.
I believe this will be a very exciting and interesting game tonight... I truly believe Boston wants to close this out at home in Game 6... Don't be surprised if this game goes into overtime...106-10or 109-109... I believe Boston will do just enough to get the victory tonight...Final score 109-106!!!
Let's have a winning evening everybody!!!