Portland is the easier series. Utah's defense is crazy right now and only going to ramp up in the playoffs. Gobert is back in full effect and going to be an absolute menace.
Last game with Portland Melo/George were dog poo.
7/28-25%.
0/12-0% from 3. YES 0%!
Lillard, McCollum, Nurkic don't scare me. Utah with DPOY Gobert anchoring the best defense in the league is scary. Russ should be able to shutdown either of the guards in the 4th. If you can guard Harden you better be able to guard anyone (not Lebron, KD, Giannis, Davis. Too big).
With that said we should beat either of them in a series. Russ being Russ, George being good, and Melo being serviceable should advance to the 2nd round.