Or maybe, notivation. There's some weird scheduling going on here. One thing I notice is this must be the first time in 100 years that the Celtics won't played on Christmas day. I bet the players and coaches are kinda relieved and glad to spend 3 whole days with family and actually get to be home X-Mas morning instead of playing on Christmas Day slate. They have an odd little home and home w Pacers where Cs have 3 days off after this game but Pacers fly home to complete a b2b hosting Bucks. I can't imagine much defense is played in this game but I'm concerned one or both teams no show .
Now this is where it gets interesting. 4 teams that play on X-Mas Day (Cavs/Mavs/Nuggs/Thunder) all start a stretch where they play front end of b2b today and all play 3 games in 4 days culminating w their 3rd in 4 on X-Mas Day. That scenario did not happen at all last year for any team, in fact all Xmas teams played an every other day sched 21/23/25. I had to go back 2 seasons to find this scenario and it happened with 3 teams and all 1st games of that stretch were high scoring games. That's a brutal schedule for these 4 teams as not only are you tasked w playing X-Mas but you play a b2b then 3 in 4 leading up which is yikes. Notice patty-cake Lebron and his Lakers continue to get rest and only play amazingly 2 games this month all in his backyard, nice.
I wanted to pound the over after that performance of misses vs Hou but something is holding me back, if I miss a good over bet so be it
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