SIt has always been said that the regular League and the NBA Playoffs They are two different competitions. It may sound exaggerated, but it is the pure reality. Once the qualifying rounds for the title have arrived, the intensity, tension and anxiety grow like foam and don’t stop until the final. What happens is that, this season that is being pushed to the limit in four series that, by themselves, are being four tremendously bloody battles.
It is not easy to remember that in the recent history of the NBA in the four semifinals of the League, basketball and the results are being talked about almost as much as the sticks that some players are carrying. The toughness of the playoffs It may seem like a myth, but it is not. The season gets serious with the distribution of tickets to the conference finals and everyone wants to be there. There are literally cakes for them.
Celtics vs Bucks
There is no series more physical than the one they are starring in Milwaukee and Boston. It was expected, of course, but after seeing the first game, it was already possible to guess that scoring for anyone was not going to be an easy task. After five clashes the champions dominate 3-2 despite the innumerable traps to which they are being subjected Giannis Antetokounmpowho has found in everything a veteran like Al Horford to one of his great nemesis this season. The rejuvenated Dominican who is at an exceptional level in these Celtics, is defending the Greek like nobody else, even using a blow out of place as happened in the fourth game. The Bucks, for their part, seek to stop Jayson Tatumand there the leader is an exceptional Wesley Mathews. Nor is a man saved from blows. Marcus Smart which seems like a magnet to them.
Heat vs Sixers
was appear Joel Embiid with the mask in the third game, and the players of the Heat they already knew where they had to influence. There is no mercy with the Cameroonian, whose orbital injury prevented him from playing the first two games in Miami. The Heat, to make the center feel more uncomfortable, if they have to hit the mask, then they hit. From the battle between the two, there is already a victim: Kyle Lowry not play the sixth game due to injury.
Warriors vs Grizzlies
For controversy, the one that exploded in the series between Golden State y Memphis with the injury of And Morant. The action of Jordan Poole, irregular to say the least, aroused all suspicions about whether the Warriors player deliberately injured the Grizzlies star. Morant, of course, accused him of it, and Poole denied it. The play is so confusing that any version will do. But not everything is in that, each game between both teams is of overwhelming intensity.
Suns vs Mavs
But for unbearable tension, the one that is being lived in the Suns vs Mavs, typical of a conference final. So much so that the nerves reached the stands and several fans tried to disturb and attack the family of Chris Paul, something inconceivable and unacceptable. The court duels between Booker y Doncic they are brutal and even Biyombo y Chriss they had to be separated by a near fight on the track and then, once in the locker room tunnel, they continued their exchange of views.
