NBA Playoffs - 1st Round Things You Have to have to Know

Actual - Spurs in 5

The Suns rolled through and played dead for the defending champion San Antonio Spurs. With Shaquille O'Neal, it however didn't make any difference for the Suns. Real - Hornets in 5

Talking of laying down dead, the Mavericks have carried out so now for the 2nd straight yr, and it has charge Avery Johnson his Head Coaching position with Dallas. Congrats. Two lessons discovered by me in predicting the Mavericks above the Hornets. Under no circumstances underestimate Chris Paul, and certainly not overestimate Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd.

Los Angeles Lakers - Denver Nuggets

Prediction - Lakers in 5

Actual - Lakers in four

Utah Jazz - Houston Rockets

Prediction - Jazz in 5

Real - Jazz in 6
The greatest series in the West in the opening round, the Jazz prevailed thank you to much better group play and greater group leaders in Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer. Tracy McGrady falls to -7 in the post-period, nonetheless certainly not reaching the 2nd-spherical...a unhappy state of affairs.

NBA East

Boston Celtics - Atlanta Hawks

Prediction - Celtics in four

Real - Celtics in 7

The Hawks, and I don't treatment how lots of games they won in the sequence, had no right currently being anywhere around a game six or game 7 vs . the Boston Celtics. The Celtics took the Hawks lightly, which is a large shock with all people battle-tested Celtics like Garnett, Allen, and Pierce. the Cavaliers? The 66-win staff from the ordinary-period, or their imposters from the Atlanta debacle?

Cleveland Cavaliers - Washington Wizards

Prediction - Cavaliers in 6

Real - Cavaliers in 6

The LeBron's move on. They should really have and did beat the Wizards, but it was a challenging sequence nonetheless. LeBron James and organization will have their hands total with the Boston Celtics, but there is a probability provided what transpired to the Celtics at the fingers of the Hawks in the 1st-round.

Actual - Magic in five

The Magic did a excellent work in quietly dispatching the Toronto Raptors. The Raptors did not exhibit up for the sequence, and they sleepwalked a bit for the duration of the regular-time in the exact same vogue. Orlando moves on to confront the Pistons.

Detroit Pistons - Philadelphia 76ers

Prediction - Pistons in six

Actual - Pistons in six

The Pistons never ever improve. Talented but bored-wanting, they are generally prepared to give games absent throughout crucial series'. This is the 3rd consecutive season that the Lakers have been disappointing after winning 3 championships and a spot in NBA finals in a span of five decades. Now the query that keeps popping into ones head is what route are the Lakers going in the direction of. From 2000 to 2004, the Lakers won twenty playoff series with Jackson, Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal in the staff. Bryant stayed on with the Lakers and signed a 7 12 months contract. He led the NBA in scoring the previous two time but the assistance he has been finding in the court has its unique limitations.

There is no doubt that the injuries endured by Lakers players explains why the time and postseason went so woefully for the Lakers and added to that the draft picks in the very last three a long time have done tiny to support them.

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