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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 3867856, member: 60"]
My takeaways from all the game 1s that stood out. Caveat, no series is won in game 1. Any team can still win.

Don't care what happens in the regular season, the best players in the league, when healthy, are still: Bron, Steph, Luka, Kawhi, Harden, KD, Giannis in whatever order you want. I refuse to put Jokic/AD/Embiid in that group right now. And John Hollinger can take Rudy Gobert and make him MVP of his own island or something.

Which brings me to Lakers/Phx. I think the Lakers can still win, especially if CP3 is dinged up. But AD cannot be considered a top level guy when he disappears in huge games. He's the king of "looks like AD is heading back to the locker room to get that ankle/hand/body part looked at". The dude has a ridiculous ceiling, but he is not a #1 on a title winning team. I still think the Lakers will figure it out.

The stuff with Mitchell playing / not playing was really odd and ill-timed.

Luka had a million different looks thrown his way and absolutely sliced and diced the Clips up. He is sooooo good. I'll say it again, Phx and Atl should get just as much blowback as Sacramento for not selecting him. If he drags this Mavs team to a victory over the Clips with KP looking like he'd rather be almost anywhere else and heavily relying on Do Do and THJr this much, he deserves to be able to take Jokic's impending MVP.

Knicks/Atlanta will have close games almost every game. Randle has to get his mojo back for game 2.

Philly should sweep or almost sweep Washington. Brooklyn should sweep the Cs. Glad the Bucks have Jrue Holiday. Giannis FTs are making me very nervous.
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