NBA Playoffs - 1st Round Thread

[Vercingetorix]

Boston will kill Cleveland.

I have seen nothing to make me expect Boston tobeat a decent team in the playoffs. Atlanta is clearly awful, and yet the Celtics couldn't win a game down here. It's a bad sign for Boston that they lost all three games down here in the fourth quarter. Allen is old and doesn't have the legs anymore to play a whole game and still hit shots in the fourth quarter. Paul Pierce is soft and a whiner; it's too easy to take him off his game by getting in his head. The only way the Celtics win the championship is if Garnett just does it all himself. Which he could certainly do, of course, but he's never done it before. The mileage on that team really shows up in the fourth quarter of a close game.

James is about a thousand times better than Joe Johnson and he has a lot better pieces around him to pick up the slack when he's double-teamed. If the Celtics couldn't kill the Hawks, I see no reason to expect them to suddenly rise up and kill Cleveland.

 

[hmanvolfan]

Can't argue with any of that... :thumbsup:

 

[milohimself]

And the Cavs are a crappy team plus Lebron James. Who knows what will happen.

And, it's time to lock this thread. We're out of the first round now.

Can we stick to individual series threads from now on? This thread turned into a clusterf***.

 

[Vercingetorix]

And the Cavs are a crappy team plus Lebron James. Who knows what will happen.

If James had blown out a knee in the second week of the year, the Cavaliers would still have won more games than the Hawks.

And, it's time to lock this thread.

Then don't post in it and don't read it.

 

[GAVol]

And, it's time to lock this thread. We're out of the first round now.

That's an excellent idea.