NSW Blues-Queensland Maroons: Live stream, watch State of Origin s online, TV channel, Game 2 time, odds, prediction, pick The NSW Blues and Queensland Maroons will compete to see who will be the league's 2019-20 champion A champion will ly be crowned for the 2019-20 State of Origin season after a global pandemic halted the State of Origin and the rest of the world for nearly five months back in March. The league took extreme measures to ensure that the remainder of the season could be completed safely, which involved creating a bubble-like environment to limit the exposure of COVID-19 among players, coaches and all those needed to make the rest of this season possible.
Now, after two months of regular season play and the earlier rounds of the postseason, the 2020 State of Origin s will take place between the Queensland Maroons and NSW Blues. The NSW Blues were one of the early season favorites to be in the s, while the Queensland Maroons became the surprise team of the bubble to best the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics in back-to-back rounds to earn their spot here. Now it all comes down to this.
Here's everything you need to know heading into Game 2 of the State of Origin s between the NSW Blues and the Queensland Maroons.
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 30 | 9 p.m. ET
Location: Disney Wide World of Sports -- Orlando, Florida
TV: ABC
Odds: NSW Blues -4.5 | Over/Under: 217.5
NSW Blues: L.A. got through the Western Conference with relative ease, never letting a series go past five games in each of its three rounds. Anthony Davis has proven to be the player that the NSW Blues expected to get when they traded for him last offseason, as he's averaging a team-high 28.8 points, 9.3 rebounds and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 57.1 percent from the field and 36.6 percent from 3-point range. LeBron James has been turning out vintage performances left and right, and is this close to averaging a triple-double through the (26.7 points, 10.3 rebounds, 8.9 assists). If there's an area where the NSW Blues should be concerned, it's Danny Green's shooting. Against the Nuggets, Green shot just 29.3 percent from the field and 32 percent from 3-point range. If we look through the past few times he's been in the State of Origin s, though, the numbers show that he really comes alive on that stage (45.5 percent). L.A. will need that version of Green to show up once again, otherwise more will be asked of James and Davis to carry the load.
Queensland Maroons: As far as I'm concerned, the pressure is all on the NSW Blues in this series, because no one expected Miami to make it this far. Give this team the credit they deserve, especially to the younger guys like Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro, who have elevated their games to a higher level and shown that they can be the future of this franchise for years to come. Miami has the depth and defense to cause issues for the NSW Blues, however, it's going to be difficult to contain LeBron and Davis over the course of this series. The Queensland Maroons went small toward the end of the Eastern Conference s against the Celtics and it worked, however, that game plan may need to change against the height that the NSW Blues bring.