Holiday helps Pelicans take 2-0 lead on Trail Blazers

Okay. Marcus Smart still out after thumb surgery?

“I’m concentrated on the Milwaukee Bucks-Boston Celtics matchup”. Shane Larkin (11 points) scored double-digits in a playoff game for the first time in his National Basketball Association career.

Eric Bledsoe claimed after Game 2 to not know who Terry Rozier is.

Five straight Horford points had Boston up 23-17 late in the first before a Brown 3-pointer stretched the lead to 30-19 with 1:24 left in the quarter. Antetokounmpo has averaged 32.5 points per game, 11.0 rebounds per game, and 7.5 assists per game on 63.2 percent shooting. They met up just once the following year, and KU defeated the Aggies, 64-61, at Allen Fieldhouse, in 2011.

They have no doubt that this series can turn in a flash. While Boston is doing it with the next man up, the Bucks can’t get it done with their normal rotation. He averaged 13.6 points per game, 5.3 assists, three rebounds and 1.3 steals for Baskonia in Liga ACB, the top flight league in Spain.

It could open the way for more court time for Milwaukee’s Australian Matthew Dellavedova who, after missing 44 regular season games with knee and ankle injuries, is being eased back into the rotation. It’s a slow start for the Cavaliers, but at 92.20 percent odds of winning the first round, LeBron has plenty of reason to stay level-headed. Khris Middleton had 25 points. Shabazz Muhammad contributed 11 points while Malcolm Brogdon had 10 off the bench in the loss. It has become clear that, as well as they have played, they can not beat a cohesive, connected Celtics team by themselves. But before we get to that possibility, let’s see whether Milwaukee can make a series of this. The theatrics from Game 1 was always going to be a hard act to follow, and a drama the Celtics were clearly not interested in repeating. We know it will be tough over there, be less mistakes.

Toronto, which made a team playoff record 16 three-pointers Saturday, connected on 12 of 32 from long range in Game 2, making only one in the second half.

“Eric Bledsoe, you know I love you, but Terry Rozier’s the guy whoopin’ your ass right now”. You’re never in good shape until the series is over. “His rookie year he got hurt the second half of the season, the same thing with last year”. Rozier will continue to thrive as the starter and the Brown-Tatum duo will continue to put up big numbers. He’s been a great acquisition. Against the Bulls, Boston went to a small lineup – inserting Gerald Green into the starting lineup at the four in Game 3. Can he turn it around?