Around the NBA - the 2020 Playoff Edition!

Who do we hate more, Houston or OKC?

 

In my case...Houston

 

Did you know that Father Time is undefeated?

 

The Lakers.....

 

nobody rolls a spliff with rubber bands to hold the paper together

 

The playoffs begin!!

 

I don't think there's that many good 1st round series.

In the east Raptors and Bucks sweep. Heat and Celtics win easily. Bucks possibly sweep round 2 as well.. Celtics and Raptors could be more competitive I would pick Toronto though.

The west isn't as tough as some think. Utah is going to greatly miss Conley and Bogdonavich, scoing is always though for them. Denver is deep enough to better withstand injuries and will win this series easily.
Clippers will easily beat Dallas; Dallas is too young and the Clippers are likely the best team in the league. Even without one of PG3/Kawhi I would probably pick LAC, with both this series is over quick. Clippers will easily win the next round as well to get to the WCF.

The only first round series that has two evenly matched teams is OKC and Rockets. I think I may pick OKC as CP3 knows how to guard the Rockets, the Rockets aren't a high % 3pt team, Harden just gets exposed in the playoffs when teams can plan for his gimmicks. OKC won't be penalized for playing a 3 PG lineup as other opponents could do. I wouldn't be surprised with either team winning this series though.

I hope the Blazers can make their series competitive but on paper the Lakers are massive favorites and it should not be a competitive series.

 

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but interesting that 4 or the 8 west play off teams are in our Division.

 

Why do divisions matter?

 

If I am not mistaken, in a normal year at least, you play the teams in your division more than any other teams.

 

I disagree. The 4-5 and 3-6 matches are all very competitive in both conferences as you would imagine in most season and then you have our series against the Lakers which is different because our roster right now had played together all season we would have been a 3, 4 or 5 seed. So I think it's quite an interesting first round, look at the game currently being played.

 

Houston. BUT- I think Houston would be an easier opponent for us in the second round, so I’m torn.

 

You def play 4 games against teams in your division but you do that for most of the other teams in your conference too. Back in the early 90s when there were less teams, you played the teams in your division 5 times. That was awesome imo.

 

I disagree with almost all of this. Without HCA, many of the top seeds will be challenged more than you think. I expect at least one big upset. And I don’t consider the Blazers beating the Lakers to be a major upset. If we had Nurk and Collins all year, we’d be a 3 seed. My opinion.

 

Utah up 5 in the 4th quarter.

 

Utah looks just fine.

 

We took Zach Collins and his rock hands ahead of Mitchell.

 

Olshey did. I don't think the majority of us wanted that pick heading into draft night.

 

Mitchell with 51. Overtime!