At 8:00pm ET, my Conf. Finals Total Of The Year is on Boston/Atlanta under the total. Game 1 was ultra high-scoring. Twenty-four of the points came in Overtime though. So, the 133-128 final score was slightly misleading. Surely, it was still a high score without OT but if we look more closely we see that the scoring was slowing down as the game progressed. The first quarter was the highest-scoring but every subsequent quarter brought fewer points. The final quarter only had 47. The 106 point 2nd half is the type of play which we will see the whole way tonight.

The Celtics are allowing 99.5 points per playoff game. Tyrese Haliburton said this of them: "They're a great defensive team. They got great, great defenders -- individual and team defenders." Boston is 12-8 to the under its last 20 tries, versus good offensive teams - scoring 116+ points/game - 2nd half of the season. This number is high. Play on the Under