Charlotte Hornets - San Antonio Spurs

A good coefficient is given here. However, no matter what happens, I believe that the Lakers will take this series and in order to do that, they must win against Minnesota and I am sure that one of the upcoming two games will be won. After that, we will try our luck in the fourth game. In the first game against Minnesota, they threw and scored cosmically and I am not very surprised by that as usually, teams led by Luka lose in the first game and then make a comeback. Minnesota's home handicap is not very convincing and it is possible that they will return to the playoffs when they had a 3-5 record (1-5 against Denver and Dallas, 0-3 against Luka's Dallas).

At some point, the Lakers' offense should start shooting, both LeBron and Reaves are playing quietly according to their standards and this leads to only 95 and 94 points in the first two games, no matter how well Minnesota plays. I think that the second and third Lakers options will wake up and this may happen here.

The Wolves are an unstable team, they went to their first game to play strongly, so they won, but overall they are a team that can lose against anyone. In their second game they lost more confidently and only scored 85 points. The Lakers, after the trade for Luka, seem like a serious team that can achieve something. Luka just becomes Gobert's father and in a literal sense makes fun of him. They don't really have anything to boast about, Gobert still plays about 30 minutes even though he is constantly attacked. I still think that the Wolves are too young of a team to achieve something serious this season and the Lakers are just stronger and more experienced.