2025 NBA Playoffs: Eastern Conference Picks & Storylines

Peter Klein

Peter Klein from Couch Potato Diary previews the Eastern Conference matchups in the 2025 NBA Playoffs. Can the Celtics cruise past Orlando? Is Cade Cunningham ready to shake up New York? And who comes out on top between the Bucks and Pacers?  🏀 Subscribe for NBA news & analysis!    #NBAPlayoffs #EasternConference #NBAPredictions #BasketballTalk #CouchPotatoDiary  Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeH... Twitter: twitter.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Twitch: twitch.tv/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning,  instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands  Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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00:00the nba playoffs continuing uh we have already looked at the western conference let's take a

00:14look at what's going on out east now um let's start with the boston celtics against the orlando

00:19magic this will be a quick breakdown as the two-seeded celtics take on the seventh seed

00:24orlando magic who got in here by whooping that ass against the atlanta hawks in the play-in

00:29uh orlando's defense is fantastic and it was on full display but this is a different animal when

00:34you are talking about offensive basketball teams and orlando's offense isn't close to good enough

00:39to keep up with this boston celtics crew so not great for uh for orlando i i don't see this being

00:47overly competitive i think the celtics get it done and i think they get it done quickly with a uh a

00:52sweep i have boston in four pacers bucks um pacers are the four seed bucks are the five seed going

01:01into this series and uh again in-depth basketball analysis this all comes down to yannis i look i

01:09love pascal siakam um you can see again the the quiet picture behind me i'm a raptors guy siakam's

01:14my dude love that guy when he was in toronto but this is a tough matchup for him yannis has given him

01:20quite a bit of problems specifically this season um there is a bit of a concern for milwaukee it did

01:26seem like offensively some things were really starting to come together with lillard helping

01:30kind of run the offense but he is out with blood clot issues so probably not going to play in this

01:34series at all so that does hurt the offense so they need milwaukee needs someone to step up outside of

01:40yannis lopez um has had some moments gary trent jr can be a bucket getter at times as well they just

01:46need someone to step up there offensively yannis can come pretty damn close to carrying it on his

01:51own the issue is is that this indiana team can put up numbers offensively when you're looking at

01:58haliburton siakam um and then the other like um turner and all of them this is a team that can put

02:04up a lot of points very very quickly on you and so that's where the other guys come in like yannis

02:08there's there's a chance yannis averages 40 in this series and there's a chance that might not be

02:13enough because of how much indiana can do on the offensive side of the basketball so i do think

02:19that the depth pieces will step up for milwaukee enough that they'll be able to uh get that job done

02:25so i i think the bucks probably take this one but it's a bit of a stay away on that front um so my

02:33official prediction is just going to be bucks plus one and a half um because uh you still get not

02:39the best odds but you still get decent odds on that one very intriguing series between the number

02:44three knicks and the number six detroit pistons uh cade cunningham the breakout is real that is

02:51easily one of the best predictions from the nba preview shows that we ran this year that uh cade

02:57cunningham was going to have that breakout season and help carry the pistons into this playoffs i

03:01actually underestimated it a little bit because i just had i think it was just make the playoffs and

03:05finish exactly seventh i think i had them at and they finish here sixth and cade cunningham

03:10was the reason why and he showed the knicks a lot of times why because he stepped up in some big ways

03:17averaging 30.8 points 8.3 assists on 56.3 percent shooting from the floor against the knicks so that

03:25like they are going to have to figure something out there um whether it like they start with an

03:31and it'll be on him but then he hunts out the brunson matchup and and is able to to get that so

03:35i don't know if you just don't switch or what do you do in those cases but that that is that is the

03:40matchup that cade is looking for the matchup the knicks are going for is carl anthony towns against

03:45the bigs of the detroit pistons um jalen duran and isaiah stewart they do the drop coverage thing and

03:52carl anthony towns dines on that sort of a thing um towns this year shot 43 and a half percent

03:58against the detroit pistons from three i again this is one where i think the knicks just have

04:04too much talent i love this detroit team i love what um cade cunningham can do but i do think that

04:10now that you're going to give tibbs an opportunity to really figure out how to limit some of the

04:15problems that you may have with uh brunson getting switched on to a um a cade cunningham and i think

04:21that um the tibbs and company are going to figure that out so i think this is going to be more

04:27competitive than this prediction is going to suggest but i i got uh nixon 5 is is my prediction

04:33for that one so that is your uh nba postseason preview here on couch potato diary uh keep it

04:42locked here on couch potato for uh all your nba coverage throughout the postseason uh also i i

04:48should have been on this before but i'm more on it now we have the playlists that we're doing uh so

04:54we're going to have all the nba coverage all in one spot so if you're just here for that you can

04:57power through a lot of that um in the playlists there

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