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Experience vs Youth

Both of the teams had a great start into the new 2017/18 season.

Both have a record of 3-1 after week 1.

After a first look of the rosters one thing stands out.

The difference of age and years of experience in the NLL.

Boston’s team has a average age of 27,5, with average of 7 years of experience in the NLL.

The Clippers average age is only 21,9, with 2,9 years of experience in the NLL.

A look at the ages of the starters is interesting, too.

Boston’s starters have a average age of 30,2, the starters of the Clippers 22,4.

That’s a huge difference.

So what would have a greater impact in this game, Boston’s experience or the young energy of the Clippers?

Who is missing this week?

For Boston Kevin Durant is missing, that hurts because he is the best player of the team.

The Clippers are missing Tristan Thomas, but with Capela, Zeller, Collins and Zizic they should be able to handle that without too much problems.

Let’s compare the Starters after we saw one week of NLL basketball:

Kyle Lowry vs DAngelo Russell

Lowry seems like the clear best player of this matchup.

But after a closer look at week1 D'Angelo Russell is getting the win here.

He was the best player for the Clippers last week.

This matchup will be exciting, see Key players for more!

Nick Young vs Devin Booker

Devin Booker is a up and coming star at the SG position. He has had a rough start last week, his shooting Percentages are very low so far.

But Nick Young is a veteran and his first week of this year’s season was a good one from the bench.

So Nick Young with the win here, but maybe Booker will find his shot this week.

Andre Iguodala vs Aaron Gordon

Andre Iguodala is still one of the best defender in the league, even with his age of 33.

Aaron Gordon is one of the most explosive guys.

We will see if Iguodala will be able to stop him.

Gordon gets the win here.

Derrick Favors vs Cody Zeller

Cody Zeller was together with Russel the leader of the team’s successful week 1.

He performed better last week that Favors, so Zeller gets the win here.

Brook Lopez vs Clint Capela

Brook Lopez is the second best player of the Celtics roster.

With Durant sidelined he is the best player of the team.

This is the clearest matchup win of all 5 starter matchups.

We have a lot of very close matchups if we compare the starting 5 of both teams.

Even if the Celtics players are much older and much more experienced the Clippers players could keep up with them. The season start was a success for both teams, so we can be excited to see which team will get a win here.

I expect this will be a close one.
My tip is Clippers by 3.

Star

Kyle Lowry
Kyle Lowry is only the third best player of his team, behind Durant and Lopez.
But he should be the key player for them in this game.

Durant is out, Lopez will lead the team, but Lowry needs to step up big to lead the team
beside Lopez to replace Durant.
And he is in the matchup with the best player of the opposing team.

So if he will have a bad day, the Celtics shouldn’t have a chance.

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Star

DAngelo Russell
DAngelo Russels first week was a good one.
He is the best player of the team so far.
Russel needs to continue to play like he does in week 1.

He needs to play a big role on both ends of the court to keep his team in the game.
He could show in the matchup with Lowry that youth and talent could beat experience.

If he and Zeller are playing as well as last week the Clippers should have a good chance of winning this one.

X-Factor
Kevin Durants Injury Could Iguodala step up und replace Durant this week? And could Lopez step up into the star role as the team’s best player and leading scorer with the assist of Kyle Lowry? Could Russel, Gordon and Zeller play a big game and take advantage of the absence of Kevin Durant. This should be the main story of this game.