Celtics vs. Knicks Game Preview: Playoff Drama Intensifies

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00:00the celtics carlin they are just a scary team man like they've been down this road so many times

00:05down in series down players for whatever reason you know paul pierce in the past when he was with

00:11the celtics is he gonna play is he not tatum is now out i don't know what it is about this

00:15franchise but it seems like they play their best when their back is against the wall i hate to use

00:19that narrative let's look at the odds nicks minus two and a half tonight total of 210 i don't think

00:26the spread's gonna come into play i doubt it but do the nicks close it out tonight or we literally

00:31headed to a game seven back in boston it's gonna be a fun ride tonight the garden the garden is

00:38gonna be absolutely charged up one of the things that i think i would look for in this matchup

00:42is looking at what happens in that first quarter because i do think that the new york nicks are

00:47going to score in bunches coming out of the first quarter their hairs are going to be on fire they

00:51know they dropped the ball in game five they had an opportunity to kind of not only win that game

00:56put the celtics out but get the necessary rest before the start of the next series and now

01:00they're kind of in that must win scenario even being up in the series right up three two it's

01:06rare that a team up in the series has a must win game and this is it for the new york nicks expect

01:11them to come out strong in that first quarter so i would take the over and whatever the first quarter

01:15total is then after that there's going to be some nerves things will slow down a little bit and i

01:19think we'll have a good basketball game one thing that i do think will favor the boston celtics

01:24is that their team that is going to come out and they're going to shoot a lot of three pointers

01:28and as you know the variance with threes has been the story of the series when boston's made the

01:33threes they've won the game if they don't they lose the game they went to madison square garden in

01:37game three and absolutely lit them up i feel a similar scenario here tonight i do think the next

01:43lead in front and i think boston finds their range from three-point range and we're heading to game

01:47seven on monday night craig i really do believe that that would be insane if if that was the case

01:53this is what boston did to miami and they seem to do to everybody else when you think that they're

01:57out they just they just jump back in uh let's let's look at the point props real quick i don't

02:02know if you have any opinion on these but i'll just show them to you and you'll tell me as we wrap

02:06it up a brunson's total it has to be super high at this point fanduel's got to set this as high as

02:10they can because he's the closer carl anthony towns is 20 og ananobi's 14 jalen brown's props have

02:16risen from about 21 to 25 with the tatum injury then you have derrick white at 20 he's gone up a bit

02:21couple of points uh pritchard is basically where he was last buddy in particular you like over under

02:27this yeah the two guards there stick out to me on on either side jalen there i i do think that the

02:33boston celtics know that they have to stop him and then on the flip side payton pritchard is going to

02:37get more shots without jason tabin in the lineup so he should go over that total so i would go over

02:42on pritchard under on brown everyone else we'll see what happens tonight

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