Win4Ever

It is, his service return has basically fallen off a Cliff.  The other components of his game are still decent with ground strokes, ball placement and shot construction.  But everything involving the service, return and on serve, are at very alarming levels.  

They are a live dog for sure.  Big game Hellebuyck has been a joke in his career.  He’s 4-9 his last 13 playoff games with a sub .870 save %.  It’s been ugly.  And on the flipside Binnington has had many huge games in the playoffs in his career.  Fittingly these guys were both in net in the recent USA - CANADA battle.  

It’s getting sad watching the goat out there.  How much longer do you think he’ll play?  He’s getting slaughtered by tomato cans now.  That run in Miami might of sapped the last gas out of him.  

Tatum in, Holiday out.

Lol 0 for 7 on power plays.  Florida has tried to give this game.  They can’t even get shots on them either.  Team is a mess.  

Probably the worst 4 minute power play I’ve ever seen.  Good thing they had 3:30 after intermission to strategize it.  Dallas had more short handed scoring chances than Colorado had.  Makar played one of the worst games I’ve ever seen from him.  They’ll probably have a much different effort in game 4.

Blood bath.  Worst sorcial teams I’ve seen in the playoffs so far.

Nice hits.  Cobolli played excellent.  Very impressed with his mental game.  He was pushed and kept battling back.  Played extremely well in tight points.

Jesus Christ this guy just keeps talking to himself LOL.  Reminds me of Robert De Niro in the fan.   

Hill started out standing on his head.  Minnesota had him under siege for a bit before breaking through.  He made a few incredible saves.  Then let a few get by him and it’s was too big of a hole to dig out of.  Competitive series though.  Minnesota is a fun team to watch.

Easy wins.  Nice job!

Refs had zero to do with that game and likely won’t in most games.  That theory was obsolete last year.  With legalized gambling it’s harder to fix games.  The “series extender” Scott Foster, he had 4 games last year as the ending game with a team down 3-0, 3-1, 3-2 and they all lost.  So I wouldn’t waste much time thinking about rigged angles.  Plus foster is hurt now with a calf injury (seriously) so no free James harden rigged games or Chris Paul since he’s not in the playoffs.

Probably more rust than anything.  The only positive is he doesn’t even try on defense as it is so coming back and tossed into the fire does nothing defensively.  Should at least be a big upgrade offensively over that loser Rollins they had out there.  If you watch the defensive alignments of game 1 they just left that slug wide open on the perimeter and doubled others.  So at the very least Dame on the floor will open up looks for others.  So it’s a huge net positive given the G league level talent that was behind him.  

I’m going to need a pacemaker after sweating that out last night.  I thought you said it would be free and easy?

If Garland misses any 30 feet 3s with shot clock expiring you got a shot.  The amount of ridiculous shots Cleveland hit game 1 was insane.  But guess they’ve done that all season.  

For me it’s either OKC or no play.  Can’t back a team that just lost by 50 without a real coach.  There’s absolutely no guarantee they rebound.  I bet against OKC about 10 times this year, and let me tell you, it’s not fun.  This team is well coached, everyone knows their role, very organized on the floor.  Memphis has to have a ton of things go right just to cover.  

That’s a tough one.  This team just looks moribund.  The roster construction has been awful.  Neither Dame or Kuzma could guard most of this board.  So the margin for error for them is extremely slim.  They must hit at a high % and knock down a lot of 3s as the supporting cast around Giannis is just atrocious.  If you do take the Bucks, my advice is then the tv off when Kuzma is on the floor.  Good luck.  

It was 26 to 4 in penalty minutes at one point in the 3rd, before some fights broke out.  Toronto had 6 power plays.  I had Senators winning the series, but I’m not above tossing the ticket in the fireplace tonight.  Felt like I was watching the San Jose Sharks play last night.  Most undisciplined hockey I’ve seen from a playoff team in many years.  Ullmark isn’t it either, his playoff track record is shook.  Will they go to Forsberg or go down with the ship?

There will be nothing free about this series.  These are both very good teams, with some very good high end star talents.  Most games will probably be a hold your sack and pray type game.

Spot on.  I’m not even a Mike Trout fan, but it’s not even up for debate if he’s a hall of famer or not.  He could retire today and he’s in.  In all my years on covers this is hands down one of the most bizarre threads I’ve come into.  Talk about a sad existence.  Devoting seemingly countless amounts of energy and emotion into telling people on a gambling forum how bad and overrated a baseball player is.  Weird.  Especially for a mute like Mike Trout who’s quietly gone about his business on shitty teams for his whole career.