How the rest of GS/LAL series will play out

With Jerome Bettis team having a firm 2-1 series grip, refs will swallow whistle in game 4 and allow an equal amount of FT’s for both teams, in which case GS will win.

Series tied 2-2. Back to Golden State. 

Warriors win game 5. Steph loses his mind and has the “I’m him” game.

3-2 Warriors heading back to LA

Game 6 will be a guaranteed Laker win, 35-45 FT attempts all but guaranteed, throw in 3/4 technicals and possible ejection. 

3-3 series, headed back to GS

And this is where Foster and crew are assigned with a very clear objective. Warriors cannot win the game. Call it evenly for a few quarters and if it’s close, you’ll see an avalanche or fouls called on GS. Goal is to ensure Bettis advances to WCF.

Your script has no imagination. That's what every Joe is thinking. 

Since January 29th when the League apologized to the Lakers after the Tatum non call on LeBron the Lakers have led the league in Free Throw differential..Going into the Playoffs the Lakers since January  29th were at 328 and the 2nd place team on the list was the Heat at 107..LeBron also missed 17 of those games so it can't be based completely on Superstar treatment..I would be very careful about expecting a fair whistle 

@jepjep02

 My script is better. Lakers win game 4 and goes up 3-1. Then gsw wins 5&6 and all the talk will be curry's revenge for losing 1-3 to lebron! Game 7 will be show us that the nba wants lebron to solidify his goat status...he cant be in goat convos if curry has more rings than him in the king's era. Free throws will rain

I'm thinking the same. They want to milk this series then eventually have Lebron take out the series.

Bottom is kakers will advance I believe that  and it will be an obvious ugly rigged game 

Hahahah Jerome Bettis.. love it . The league is trying to hard to get this guy another the chip. It’s disgusting. 

I think most Joes are thinking zig-zag. ActionMagnet's prediction ditches the zig zag theory in Game 5 with the Warriors winning their second game in a row. I don't think the zig zag pattern of this series is changing in Game 5. I think it's going by the wayside tonight.

Laker take commanding 3-1 lead ?

That's what I'm thinking. The Warriors didn't pay the price for their .268 regular season road winning percentage in the 1st round against the Kings, but I think they will here. Every team can try harder in the playoffs, but ultimately, they can't be something they're not. If the Warriors win tonight, they'll improve to 3-3 on the road in the playoffs against winning teams. This after they finished 2-20 on the road in the regular season against winning teams? I don't see it. I think they're going down to defeat again tonight and I think the Lakers will eliminate them in Game 6.

It was in one of Bay2LA's threads while Game 3 was still in progress that he predicted that the Lakers would again be -3 in Game 4 and that they would again win easily. I responded by saying that the bookie wasn't going to let bettors have the Warriors +3 again given that in Game 4 the Warriors would be playing off a loss and now be in dire need of a series-tying win. But I was wrong about that. The books are letting Warriors bettors have +3 again. No adjustment for the zig zag theory that gets talked about so much. No adjustment given Golden State's long history of winning road playoff games when they really need to. It seems the oddsmakers perhaps feel that the Warriors might not have another gritty, winning road effort in them. I don't think they do either.

Lakers head coach Shrek has the easiest gig in the NBA. Team is on cruise control and largely coached by James. Anyway- I think I agree with you Bator. 

I don’t see how the Dubz win this game. It’s Curry and a bunch of “guys”  vs arguably the most balanced roster left.

Guys stop wasting time debating this series and the Lakers.

Ite CLEAR as day the NBA will make sure the Lakers make the finals this year. 

Grab them +200 to win the west and just sit back and enjoy until it cashes in a few weeks. 

The NBA is the most scripted sport and its so clear its all about LeBron this year. 

@itjunkie

 Doesn’t matter if they beat Golden State, they will not win the NBA championship!

Lakers playing great right now, wondering how Golden State Warriors will play after losing by 30 points 

This Game 4 line is no longer Lakers -3. It's dropped to -2.5, and a few places have -2. Is this line going to continue to move like yesterday's two games? Are the Lakers going to drop all the way to Pick 'em? What do you guys think?

Heat beat Fakers in finals rematch 

I'm tempted to take Heat +2500

agreed. They have been horrible on the road. Still a bit shocked they beat sac like that in game 7.  But got to go with them failing on the road like they have all year.  

@JackSmack

Won game 5 too 

I will say this is the game (game 4)  where Memphis pretty much won at LA, but Los Angeles got lucky with deangelo hitting those 3 threes.  

can talk about golden state and road being very underwhelming this year, but the lakers can not show up too.  

hmmm 

@MrBator

 You have any faith in the Knicks tonight? I like the veteran home team in this spot. 

Everyone expects Lakers to win tonight, Gs win game 5 and La to win game 6. No way Vegas hands out free money that easily. Either La wins tonight and then game 5 or Gs wins tonight and La wins games 5 and 6. Vegas’ most profitable outcome would be GS wins tonight, lakers win game 5, warriors win game 6, lakers win Game 7

Fact check: FALSE

I've yet to place a bet involving this series except for the 1st half of Game 1 and I have no pick on this game either. I didn't even watch Game 3, and from what I've read and heard, I'm all the better for it.