Wednesday, May 25, 2022

"Heat"+2 Beans

That's up from +1, so most bettors, and this CBS cogno

Expect Celtics to claim control of Eastern finals vs. Heat

The CBS guy writes that maybe Jimmy Butler just had a bad game in G4 but, and I've read this elsewhere, "But Butler did not look right physically to the naked eye." Butler and Lowry gave it a go Monday night but not Herro. That's three of your top six guys banged up. More significant, at least to me, is this: Eric Spoelstra played his starters only between 15 and 28 minutes in the game. Because the game got out of hand. Spo may have thrown in the towel early, true, but Ime Udoka kept all his starters in except RWIII for longer than any of Miami's starters played. Is it plausible that the alternating victories in this series, and the huge, unsustained swings within games are bursts from two mentally and physically exhausted teams?