NBA Playoffs Weekend Review:WC
Jazz Vs. Grizzlies
Every Week (Proposedly) Of The NBA Playoff, Our Writers(Me, exclusively) Will recap The Happening Of The NBA Playoffs Series By Series, Shot By Shot As The League Inches Closer And Closer to Its Championship Culmination. This week past And the Weeks to Come, WE(I), Will Share Our, My, Insight On what To Expect Of The Games, The Teams, And The League Moving Forward.
The Other 1 Vs 8 Seed match Up, Happening Opposite End Of The NBA Geographic Landscape Expected Also To Be A Lopsided Affair, Between Two of The NBA’s More Subdued Teams, This Series Is Making a lot Of Noise, Garnerimg More Notoriety, Filled with The excitement We May Have Thought Of The Buck Heats Series. As Were Wizards, So Too Did The Young tenacious Memphis Grizzlies Fight Their Way, Through desperation To Hang Upon themselves The title Of A Playoffs team. Most had Written Them off come The Final week Of the regular Season But The 2nd Youngest team In the Prove Their placed. A Game 1 Victory Showed, Better emblazoned the point That this Grindhouse Grizz Team Not only Belong But They Can Compete. , hey tasted Blood And Now They are Determined To make Utah Earn Their Bid To Further Their Championship Aspiration. Game 2 Was The return of Donavan Mitchell, who made His series Debut Following Ankle Soreness, He Scored a team-high 25 In Jazz Win That was Overshadow But The Solar 47 Point Franchise High Record Of JA Morant. Game 3, The Youth And Fervor that Enabled The Grizz To Past The Pain of the game 2 And Enable Them Push The Jazz To, Adversely Held Them Back From Stealing Another Game Over The League Leaders Within the final moments of the game up by Two Points, The Young Grizz Surrender A 3 pointer To Donavan Mitchell. The Jazz Preceded On A 14 point scamper almost unabated, only by 2 points, To Finish the game, Reclaim Home Courts, And Quickly Seize The Series Momentum Away From Grizzlies.
‘Still learning. Still figuring it out. “ Grizzles guard Dillon Brooks, Who Had 27 Points.
Branded As The “trap Series” for this Reason The Suns And Lakers Series (So far) is Emblematic of why The Moderate NBA Fan ascribes to the school of thought, Trust not In Stats. When the regular season end So Does its record Books, its Statistic, and Head To- head Breakdowns, These Are No longer of Consequence. In May, A New season starts, Teams Broken Down To the basics of Basketball A New Light Is Shone on Each Matchup. Experience, Fortitude(toughness) And Skill Take Focus Above Else. And Through two of the three Games This Series The Lakers Have Mastered The Art Of All 3. 4 games of The Lakers Versus Suns series Are In the Rare View mirror, After game 3 the lakers Held A Commanding 2-1 Series Heading Into Los Angeles For Game Sunday. Anthony Davis, Who Missed Most Of The MAatchups With The Suns In the regular Season Due to injury, Is Proving himself to be the difference on the scoreboard. Davis is Having His Way Inside, And So Are The Lakers In General, While Also getting to The Free-throw Line profusely through three Games. After disappointing Showing In Game 1 AD Followed Up with 34 points in both games 2 and 3 leading the Lakers To wins And manufacturing 40 trips to the free-throw line. Primarily defended By Jae Crowder Or DeAndre Ayton Neither “big’ Has the Size Of Mobility to Stymie Any Of Davis Offensive Intentions. The Suns On The Other hand have Have Devin Booker Whose 34 points Help the Suns take Game 1. His 25.4 is near his Averaging Near His Season Marks for the Season But His Porous efficiency, 35 and 31 percent the past Two Games have Hurt The Suns’ Cause Of Pulling Even and Ahead of the Lakers. Chris Paul Is Ailing. The Outlines of another Chapter of His Notorious playoff history of breaking down physically in the playoffs is Is Beginning To Take form. In the End, A Groin injury That Has Anthony Davis Listed As Day-to-day Now Dashes The Previously Assume Championship Aura Of The Lakers. Paul Looked And Played Well in The sun Game Four Victory. IT will Come To Who is Healthy Enough To Crossover Into The Next Round.
After The Early Mavs Dominance the Clippers Responded By Way Of their Collective Cause. With A Salvo Of Wing defenders To Swing In Droves At Luka Doncic, The Mavs Star Has Been Frustrated As He Continues To Be The Prime Cog On The Offense. The Mavs Formular For Having Luka Create Offense early And Often would Have Never Held up To scrutiny And After A 81 Point Showing On Sunday The Math Is Adding up quite nicely for The Clippers. Paul George And Kawhi Leonard Have Combined For 114 between their Last Two Outing. The Mavericks Deployment of Maxi Kebler As the Prime Defender Against Kakwi Has Resulted in an AnIncreasee difference Despite His Porous Game 4, Luka Is Still Averaging 33/8/ 8 But Kahwi Is Not Far Behind 33/ 8/3. In Taking The Frist two Games Of the Series The Mavs Appeared To capture The Lead On The Series. The Clips Responded, Winning The Next two A Seizing Momentum.
The Pendulum Swings to whom shall The Bell Toll. The Blazers And Nuggets Have Traded Home court advantage, unexpected performance, and offensive outpours in a series of two of the NBA’s More Equable teams. By the End Of Four Games The Portland Trail Blazers Still Own The Point differential And Therefore the Series Advantage, the Nuggets have been the more efficient team, where Is the edge? Denver Had An Unheralded Hero In Game 3 When Recently Signed G Austin River s Hit Four Consecutive 3 pointers late to Give Denver the Win And recaptured Home Court advantage. Rivers Impact could prove to Series Shifting. The Nuggets were “questionable” To Say The Least at guard after The Loss of Jamal Murray. Nikola Jokic Has Been Producing As Expected Avaeraging More a Little Over 30 as the Nuggets Forwards carry The teams’ weight But if the team wished To hold Back the Blazers Guards Play To Offset the Two High Calibar Guys Out In Portland the increasingly more production from their guards. Not To Be Out Done Portland Most Recent NAcquisitionuistion, Norman Powell, Posted a Playoff High 29 in game 4 to rival Rivers’ Performance A Game Before Nod the Series 2-2. Jokic’s Assist Totals Are Down Scathed From His Season Average But He is Having his Way inside against Portland. Damian Lillard Is Also Average 30 or More On the series but only managed 10 in game 4. Both Blazers Losses In game 2 and game 3 came off the curb of Lillard’s Offensive Explosion, 37, and 42 points respectively. Lillard also registered a Negative Plus-Minus in both outings. Look For the Supporting Cast for Both Teams To Step Into the foreground as the Series Moves into its Critical Mass With Portland Slightly, really, Slightly Owning the Edge.
