Playoffs

WAS (+7.5) vs. ATL

I understand the Hawks were really good during the regular season, but you realize the Wizards had a chance to tie the game with less than a minute left even without John Wall running around doing John Wall things?? Just not ready to lay this many points on a team that hasn't convinced me they have control of this series quite yet. Honestly I think Paul Pierce does just not enough tonight to pull the upset and propel the Wiz to a 3-2 series lead.

MEM (+9.5) vs. GSW

Basically just take the paragraph above and replace Hawks, Wizards, and Paul Pierce with the words Warriors, Grizzlies, and Mike Conley. The Dubs haven't shown me enough to believe that they have swung this series in their favor, especially because they still rely on outside shooting to win and some nights those shots don't fall (see games 2-3). This is going to be one of those vintage Memphis performances of pounding the paint and harassing the shit out of shooters to run them off the three point line. Only hope for the Dubs here is Draymond Green has that crazy Dray Dray game and swings the series back to the Dubs.