The NBA Finals Will Be Miserable for One Team

The NBA Finals Will Be Miserable for One Team

if the Celtic and Maverick rosters were on a playground how would they get picked for teams Luca goes first obviously best player then Jason Tatum then Jaylen Brown Kyrie Irving christop porzingis Drew holiday Derek white Derek Lively maybe it really drops off from there the point is the Celtics have five of the best seven players in the finals how can they lose Boston was the best team all season and have knocked on the door for years Dallas just throws this team together around Luca and we expect them to win the title come on but close game final possession who do you trust more than Luca nobody Kyrie is a close second he has actually hit a big shot in the clutch to win a chip these will be tight games so Advantage Mavericks but there is a lot more that goes into this matchup we will explain the biggest details here then pick the winner so according to odds it’s obvious a very sharp sports book called Circa has Celtics minus 216 Dallas plus 190 to put that in perspective according to Bill Simmons they’d be the third biggest Underdog winner in modern NBA history the biggest was the’ 04 Pistons second the 2019 Raptors so think about that if you follow basketball both of those were huge shocking upsets I mean if you told people yeah the Pistons are going to beat the Shaq Kobe 3 pet Lakers or yeah the Raptor’s going to knock off the KD Warriors you’d be insane okay yes Katie and Clay got injured but they were huge dogs before that this would be on that level but I have been playing Underdog throughout this entire postseason even though we’ve had this drought of playoff games I’ve still been playing especially WNBA I love pick them you pick higher or lower you can up to 20 extra money in a single night however right now they are debuting an eight pick play where you can up to 325x your money and it automatically slots in so we can miss two of our picks and still win so let me give you m let’s do this quick with eight plays Drew holiday higher than 4 and a half assists Luca donic higher than one and a half blocks plus steals Daniel gaffard lower 8 and a half points Lively lower one and a half blocks and steals Jason Tatum higher 9 and half boards Kyrie higher 31 and2 points rebounds and assists Al Horford higher 13 and 1 12 points rebounds and assist and PJ Washington higher than 5 and a half boards lot of picks there best of luck if you are tailing check out this updated map to see if Underdog is available in your area remember if you’re in Florida you still have Champions use promo code am Hoops when you sign up you can get up to 250 bucks in bonus cash and a special pick a gigantic upset if Luca wins the title but it doesn’t feel that way the reason is what they did at the trade deadline after getting Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington the Mavs are a beast on defense you thought Minnesota was good no Dallas is number one on D the final 15 games of the season and through out the playoffs lot of love for Luca and Kyrie offensively but their secret is defense even Kyrie and Luca Kyrie is number four in playoff steals this year number one Luca and watch Kyrie do this against some of the best in the west and when he’s not stealing he has mastered the art of the swipe down block to prevent shots this doesn’t get talked about enough in fact if you look at the most unlikely teams to win at all the most losses by a champ the 95 Rockets with just 47 wins they are famous for adding Clyde Drexler at the deadline which redefined their team the blueprint is there but something about the Celtics should scare people on April 29th Christ do porzingis had a calf injury against the Heat just pulls up from no contact like we see with Achilles injuries immediately holds up his hand to get out of the game and puts his jersey over his face in frustration but the Seas rolled through the playoffs without him 12-2 over Miami Cleveland and the Pacers of course it was an easy road but that’s what they get for being the number one overall seed now christops is ready to go for game one he has had 38 days to heal up and is a unique problem for Dallas as a stretch five he can pull their valuable centers out of the paint that severely hurts the Maverick’s game plan on D and if they they put a small on him KP can post up or hit mid-range jumpers they had no answer for him in the regular season with Dallas’s new crew KP still dropped 24 points on eight of 14 from the field four of eight from three plus he is the fifth best rim protector in the league then there’s the three-point shooting the C’s are by far the most prolific triple team in the league they were number one in three-point makes Dallas was number three Boston number one in three point attempts Dallas number two so there’s going to be a lot of Threes but Boston is just different the best teams in the west playoffs had four players make 100 threes this year I mean the Warriors had two players make 100 the Celtics had eight eight players made 100 plus threes they could kill you from every position yeah Dallas has Wing Defenders like PJ Washington Derrick Jones Jr they can’t guard everybody oh but what if they go cold series live by the three die by the three right yeah well they’ve done it all year won 64 games in the regular season 12-2 so far in the playoffs so they ain’t never gone cold now before we get to this prediction do not be fooled by the regular season the dumbest take I’ve seen on the finals is well the Celtics have been the best team all year I mean they won 64 games number one overall seed by a mile but historically that is not a reason to pick them going back to 2000 the first year of the three Pat Lakers the number one overall seed has only won the chip seven out of 25 times that means almost 75% of the time they lose oh in 64 wins gets the chip five out of 10 times so 50% a lot better but far from a guarantee so I don’t just look at the regular season and say oh yeah well they should win it’s so much deeper than that but what about the pressure I mean Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown had been to the Conference Finals five times together some people look at that as a bad thing no way they were so young through that run it’s impressive but the reality is they still for some reason have all the pressure in the world on their shoulders the Mavs have zero pressure and a guy like Luca who has won championships in Europe Kyrie has been here before the stage is not too big which brings us to the biggest point there’s a narrative that Jason Tatum is bad in the clutch but is that true Steve Kerr once said look you can draw up all the plays and x’s and those that you want but in the biggest games it comes down to my best guy against yours ktie and Steph got it done what about Tatum well both teams are statistically very clutch the Celtics are fourth in clutch win percentage and in clutch net rating 4-0 in the playoffs the Mavs second in clutch win percentage third in net 6 and three in in this postseason but Tatum as an individual is maybe the worst star in the NBA he turns the ball over and misses constantly it popped up in March you might remember when the Cavs were able to force him into an ugly mid-range Miss to lose the game and that’s not the only time remember kcp forced him into another bad shot we thought it was a finals preview that might be a finals preview for Tatum in fact at the time of that Cavs miss Tom abro went ahead put together this chart that shows MVP candidates in the clutch and by far way worse than the top four not even in their Galaxy is Jason Tatum and this goes back three years including the playoffs dude just doesn’t have it now the cool thing is this series is an opportunity for him to flip the script Tatum could squash all that negativity improve he belongs among the elite stars but I don’t think he even has to I think the Celtics are going to beat the Mavericks so bad they won’t even need these clutch shots the C’s are a much deeper more talented team with a defense that can slow down Kyrie even if Luca is going off I predict Celtics in five and I know a lot of people want to see Luca and Kyrie raise that trophy including me but if I have to be honest my prediction is that’s not going to happen but Celtics fans are really going to laugh if Kyrie does get shut down because he is Enemy Number One in Boston and there is a good reason why

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The 2024 NBA Finals will change the way we look at several young stars. Either Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown or Luka Doncic will win his first NBA Championship. Who will it be? This is a preview of the historic series.