[quote]gregron wrote:
I heard something interesting today on Mike and Mike in the morning (ESPN morning radio show for people who don’t know)
They were saying how the NBA should adopt the same policy as the NHL and reseeding the playoffs after each round. It made sense after they explained it but basically they were saying that Dallas had a better regular season than OKC and deserved a second round home series more than OKC (assuming the Grizz beat the Spurs)
I’d never really thought about that before but it makes sense to me. What do you guys think?[/quote]
They’ll never do it because it messes with the TV and travel schedule too much. You can’t plan anything until the last series in each conference is over… they like to keep the games going as fast as they can.
[quote]gregron wrote:
I heard something interesting today on Mike and Mike in the morning (ESPN morning radio show for people who don’t know)
They were saying how the NBA should adopt the same policy as the NHL and reseeding the playoffs after each round. It made sense after they explained it but basically they were saying that Dallas had a better regular season than OKC and deserved a second round home series more than OKC (assuming the Grizz beat the Spurs)
I’d never really thought about that before but it makes sense to me. What do you guys think?[/quote]
They’ll never do it because it messes with the TV and travel schedule too much. You can’t plan anything until the last series in each conference is over… they like to keep the games going as fast as they can.[/quote]
I kind of see where you’re coming from but the playoffs already take forever! NBA teams are used to playing back to back nights and they have 2 or 3 nights off between games in the playoffs cause the NBA wants their games to all be prime time viewable games. They could do the reseeding thing and then cut out a few of the rest nights between home games and keep the longer down times between travel games dont ya think?
[quote]therajraj wrote:
So guys, what are you BOS-MIA series predictions?[/quote]
It’s going to 7 games.
Miami has looked GREAT late this season and into the playoffs. And they had a convincing victory against Boston when they finally toughened up and didn’t let Boston manhandle them.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
So guys, what are you BOS-MIA series predictions?[/quote]
It’s going to 7 games.
Miami has looked GREAT late this season and into the playoffs. And they had a convincing victory against Boston when they finally toughened up and didn’t let Boston manhandle them. [/quote]
[quote]therajraj wrote:
So guys, what are you BOS-MIA series predictions?[/quote]
It’s going to 7 games.
Miami has looked GREAT late this season and into the playoffs. And they had a convincing victory against Boston when they finally toughened up and didn’t let Boston manhandle them. [/quote]
so you’re picking Miami in 7?[/quote]
No, I was slyly avoiding making a pick at all.
I guess I give the edge to Boston, but it’s gonna be close. If it’s less than 7 games it’ll still be close games.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
I guess I give the edge to Boston, but it’s gonna be close. If it’s less than 7 games it’ll still be close games. [/quote]
i definitely agree. I think it’ll be a close series. I could see each team getting a big home win throughout the series but overall I think it’ll be a tight series.
Best record in the NBA an out in the first round… Crazy!
I wider how Memphis is going to do playing back to back nights? They’ve been aging really well do maybe they just keep on rolling today against the Thunder? Or they’re tired, have an emotional let down after knocking off the spurs and having to travel and play the next day and get whacked by OKC? Should be interesting.
[quote]gregron wrote:
I heard something interesting today on Mike and Mike in the morning (ESPN morning radio show for people who don’t know)
They were saying how the NBA should adopt the same policy as the NHL and reseeding the playoffs after each round. It made sense after they explained it but basically they were saying that Dallas had a better regular season than OKC and deserved a second round home series more than OKC (assuming the Grizz beat the Spurs)
I’d never really thought about that before but it makes sense to me. What do you guys think?[/quote]
They’ll never do it because it messes with the TV and travel schedule too much. You can’t plan anything until the last series in each conference is over… they like to keep the games going as fast as they can.[/quote]
I kind of see where you’re coming from but the playoffs already take forever! NBA teams are used to playing back to back nights and they have 2 or 3 nights off between games in the playoffs cause the NBA wants their games to all be prime time viewable games. They could do the reseeding thing and then cut out a few of the rest nights between home games and keep the longer down times between travel games dont ya think?[/quote]
Well, I was talking more about why they’d never do it than speaking my own opinion. It doesn’t really matter to me… it might be more “fair” to the top seeds but I like the way it is too. I’m in favor of whatever way has games being played most frequently… the day off today sucks!
[quote]therajraj wrote:
So guys, what are you BOS-MIA series predictions?[/quote]
I’d rather Boston win but I’m picking MIA in 7.
Remember NYK had several important injuries, Boston struggled with them at home before Stoudemire/Billups got hurt and MIA is way better than NYK. I just think MIA is playing better right now, even if it kills me to pick them.
[quote]scj119 wrote:
/offtopic do you guys play ball too? If so, what position?
I played an annoying game of pickup ball today and was curious.[/quote]
Yeah. I got some dunk vids in my log, and am gonna get up a whole bunch more soon.
Also, Before the Perkins trade I had Boston back in the finals. Without him [and Tony Allen] they beat up a depleted New York squad and are lacking a lot of what made them so tough. I think they beat the Heat, but if they go up against Chicago [and whatever microspic chance ATL had is out with Hinrich gone] they lose. As much as I’d like Bryant to get another title, a Thunder/Chi-Town finals would be bad ass.
Done a little digging around and found that MEM won the regular season series v. OKC 3-1, with OKC giving away 22, 21, 18 and 14 turnovers (not in that order). Grizzlies bar one game shot well. Will be an interesting scenario now with Perkins in OKC minus Green and Krstic who weren’t performing so great against them.
I’m choosing the Thunder purely because I don’t think the Grizzlies can keep up that kind of shooting, and OKC probably won’t give away so many easy TO in the playoffs.
Hope my LAL v DAL prediction is wrong.
CHI should comfortably beat ATL.
MIA over BOS purely because the Heat have looked so much better in the closing of the season and into round 1 against Phili.
Edit: BTW wouldn’t surprise me at all if a few more techs and suspensions get handed out this around specifically the LAL v DAL and MIA v BOS games.
Memphis’ regular season records against elite teams are pretty good I imagine. They’ve beaten almost all of them at least once. That said I still have OKC beating them.
Conference Semifinals:
Chicago > Atlanta
Boston >= Miami [really close damnnit, but the edge to Boston]
LA > Dallas [sorry gettinitdone :/]
OKC > Memphis
Conference Finals:
Chicago > Boston
LA > OKC
Finals:
Chicago = LA [for now lol, I’ll decide after the next series]
Gonna see if I can up my winnings. Paying $1.87 for CHI v ATL and DAL v LAL to finish combined scores of 178.5 and 188.5 respectively. Dallas are also paying $3.25 for a G1 win. Was a bit shattered not being able to get a shot at BOS v MIA game 1 where Boston are paying $2.85 for a win. Would have been worth putting $10 on the line for that result.
