Thurs * Lakers loses but covers by .5 pt!!! . . . whew!
Tonight I like Short & Sweet: woof woof
Macs POD, Go big or go home!!! I'm a sucker for punishment! . . . win or lose!
Miami Heat @ Boston Celtics -9.0 POINTSBET * 8:30 pm * Conf. Finals Gm #2
"We're too far in to hang our heads. We're too far in to look back and be like, 'The series is over,'" Celtics guard Jaylen Brown said. "It's one game. So we've just got to get ready to play the next one.
"Got a great opportunity the next game on Friday to come out and play and lift our intensity. I'm looking forward to it."
"He's one of the best players in the world for a reason," Heat guard Kyle Lowry said. "It's just a joy to watch it. For a guy that wants it so bad and works so hard at his craft, it's important to enjoy his success. He gives us all the confidence to be successful and be aggressive and be assertive."
"I would say that everybody counted us out from the beginning [and that] was kind of what builds that chip," said Heat center Bam Adebayo, who had 20 points and eight rebounds on Wednesday. "But also the adversity that we've been through the whole season, the ups and downs, the games we should have won but didn't win. Going to the locker room and trying to figure it out, rewrite whatever we did wrong, and going through that put us in this position.
"Now I feel like we are one of the best teams in the league, because adversity built this.
"We got away from who we are in the third quarter," Mazzulla said. "Whether it's home or away, it's the details, it's the margins, it's the little things."
"At the end of the day we are the 8 seed, so we are on the road," Lowry said. "We've got to go out there and try to win games on the road. We don't have the advantage of having four games at home."