Bill Simmons

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Look, Minnesota looks like they're in trouble for different reasons than Cleveland looks like they have the upper hand against Detroit.

Minnesota just looks like a talent issue, especially with Edwards not 100%.

Cleveland, Detroit, this series has become more of a math problem where it just feels like Detroit's max is around 105 points.

And if Cleveland could just get over that, they're going to win.

Detroit in the playoffs, 14th and threes.

They've only made 10 threes a game.

49% on twos, 13th.

They have the fourth highest amount of turnovers.

They're almost at 60 in a game.

And they're just running out of guys that they can put out there in crunch time that they can trust.

So I think they're in the most trouble, these four teams.

But I have five guys I'm watching on Friday night for different reasons in the two series.

First one is Julius Randle, who was a huge reason, I thought, that the Timberwolves won game one and then has been a lightning rod ever since.

13 for 39 in the three losses.

And has just looked really, really awful at times, trying to challenge Wemby, trying to challenge what the Spurs are doing to him.

And it's like, Randall has these moments where you've, like, I thought after game one, I was like, he's the key to the series.

I'm not sure if the Spurs have guys to guard him.

And then by the time you finish game five, you're like, can they play Randall?

I mean, this is the story of his career.