J.D. Skeets

I would rather see the Hornets win.

Uh, but unfortunately the Hornets are the only team in the league this season who have a better road record than home record.

And they're playing at home.

Interesting.

I was going to say it feels like the Heat, because that place is going to be buzzing, pun intended, they got to sort of strike first in this one, sort of take the crowd out of it, build like a double-digit lead, have to have Charlotte sort of try and get back into it.

But the Hornets are favored by five and a half on FanDuel in this game.

I'm going to go Hornets because the Heat maybe, yeah, they've just been not a great team over the last little bit where the Hornets have been one of the better teams at least over this second half of the season.

The second game on Tuesday night at 10 p.m.

Eastern is the number eight-seeded Trailblazers versus the number seven-seeded Phoenix Suns.

For what it's worth, the Suns won the season series versus Portland 2-1, but a lot of those games were missing big guys.

Dylan Brooks, Devin Booker, Avdija, Drew Holiday.

So I don't think you're going to take too much from the season series.

Phoenix hosting.

TK, start with you here.

What are you watching for and then ultimately who you got in this one?

I think these are two very similar teams, actually, the Trailblazers and the Suns.

They both force a lot of turnovers.

They both offensive rebound quite a bit.

Possession game will be big.

Both of them, I think, are vulnerable to offensive rebounding as well.