Eastern Conference Playoff Preview: Predictions on Rounds 1 and 2. Whose going to the Finals ?

[Just Is]

Raps in 6
76ers in 6
Rockets in 6
Warriors in 5

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[GOLDBLUM]

Sixers in 5
Cavs in 7

Sixers Eastern Conf Champs

[psrs1]

Raptors in 7.
Celtics in 7.
Warriors in 4.
Houston in 5

[Demographic Shift]

Well now.

Perhaps a little less Rihanna dating twitter conversations....a little more humility and focus from the self appointed red shirt rookie of the year as he seemed to turn it over a dozen times tonight (in reality it was only 7) ...and in general a lot more attention to basketball is in order after the pretty full of themselves Sixers got their asses handed to them tonight by an undermanned but very focused Team Chowda tonight.

Marco Bellinelli looked like the guy that was let go for a bag of day olds and so did Ilyasova. Covington chipped in with a 0 on his stat line. Well he made his 3 FT’s. Saric played hard but it wasn’t his night either.....

Who did have a night was Rozier and Al Horford. Rozier who is more likely to go 5 of 18 as he is 11 of 18 had a night. Al went 10 of 12. Have to think that’s not going to be a regular outing for either of these guys but tonight that’s what it as and the pluckiest team in the NBA caught one of the more self absorbed ones with a haymaker.

The Hinkies got a firehouse up the ass wake up call tonight...watch for a better effort in a couple of days time or they are going back home down 2.

[Demographic Shift]

So here we go.... Round 2.

NewLooks at Raps

Lots of obligatory "great man" interviews with Lebron .. on what he thinks of the Raptors, the City of Toronto, if babies are cute, and other irrelevant small talk as the series gets started.. If your a fan.. those hard hitting questions are mildly interesting. If your a player you simply don't give a fuck what the guy on the other team that you want to beat the crap out of thinks of you.

Lebron is having an all world year. He is, regardless of Harden winning MVP, the best player in the league. If you sense a but coming there is ..... but the crew around him is .. in a word... suboptimal. Kevin Love is dinged up. He is playing but his FG% says that hand and thumb are still bothering him. JR "Shirtless"Smith is all bark and no bite at this point and has been all year. Tristan Thompson has been in and out of the line up all year and has stuff happening in his private life that may take away from his concentration. George Hill has lingering back issues. Kyle Korver is still making his shots but gives most of.. if not all of it .. back on defense. The off the bench players that the NewLooks got to make them the NewLooks are not contributing. How in the name of the god would you expect guys coming off the bench on the teams they came from to step up and under the brightest of lights in the playoffs and shine when they haven't done it before.

Lebron and the seven dwarfs are coming off a long series with Indy with a lot of emotional and physical capital expended in game 7. Its hard to get back up for the next series in a single day. The Raps gave themselves some more rest by dispatching the Wiz in six games and with a couple practices under their belts are ready to go tonight.

The Raps are deeper.. .younger....and can see the goal line. Ujiri built this team the way he did to beat the Cavs. Since they have beat everyones ass on their way to this series you have to like the Raps chances.... I do anyway.

Professional win tonight .... Raps W.

[S.R.]

The off the bench players that the NewLooks got to make them the NewLooks are not contributing. How in the name of the god would you expect guys coming off the bench on the teams they came from to step up and under the brightest of lights in the playoffs and shine when they haven't done it before. .

Interesting to see by the end of the Indy series the New Look additions were hardly playing. It was all LBJ/JR/Korver/TT/Love with a lot of Hill/Green off the bench. Average age of that top 7 = 31.4 years.

Run them into the ground.

[Demographic Shift]

Interesting to see by the end of the Indy series the New Look additions were hardly playing. It was all LBJ/JR/Korver/TT/Love with a lot of Hill/Green off the bench. Average age of that top 7 = 31.4 years.

Run them into the ground.

Absolutely....Make the Cavs starters run baseline to baseline for as long as they are on the floor....

Run into.. bump into... fall into ....whatever into....Lebron ....
Raps have 12 to 18 fouls to give on this guy... make him absorb every single one....

[Abbas]

But little but

Raptors in 7
Sixers in 7

Warriors in 4
Houston in 5

[Demographic Shift]

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger as the song goes.

Well losing game 1 of a seven gamer won’t kill you but the Raps let one slip away last night...Multiple chances to get two possession leads under 3 mins just didn’t happen. Sports is ruthless and if you muck up your chances it bites..hard.

This team does nothing easy...and perhaps that’s their calling card. A win at home and a very gettable split in Cleveland is the most likely scenario....followed up by a Wiz series redux in games 5 and 6.

Nothing from last nights game indicates the Raps still aren’t the favourites in the series. The reactions from an opening game loss are over the top which speaks more to the maturity of the Raps fan base than to the reality of the current situation. It’s the second round of the playoffs..did you expect Cleveland to roll over and die...

Tonight in the NBA sees the Jazz at the Rockets With the warriors taking out the Pelicans last night the west’s other big team lines up against a Jazz team that’s missing it’s point guard and has its strengths mitigated by the style of play of its opponent. Having a rim protector doesn’t really take the 3 point bombers from Houston out of their offensive comfort zone. Houston picks up the W at home tonight.

[KeonClark]

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger as the song goes.

Well losing game 1 of a seven gamer won’t kill you but the Raps let one slip away last night...Multiple chances to get two possession leads under 3 mins just didn’t happen. Sports is ruthless and if you muck up your chances it bites..hard.

This team does nothing easy...and perhaps that’s their calling card. A win at home and a very gettable split in Cleveland is the most likely scenario....followed up by a Wiz series redux in games 5 and 6.

Nothing from last nights game indicates the Raps still aren’t the favourites in the series. The reactions from an opening game loss are over the top which speaks more to the maturity of the Raps fan base than to the reality of the current situation. It’s the second round of the playoffs..did you expect Cleveland to roll over and die...


Tonight in the NBA sees the Jazz at the Rockets With the warriors taking out the Pelicans last night the west’s other big team lines up against a Jazz team that’s missing it’s point guard and has its strengths mitigated by the style of play of its opponent. Having a rim protector doesn’t really take the 3 point bombers from Houston out of their offensive comfort zone. Houston picks up the W at home tonight.

Sorry DS but the "always sunny in Toronto" approach and calling out all the immature fans is disingenuous this time around. I'm one of the most positive around but that was devastating blow. LeBron and love were average and below average respectively. We had multiple clean looks at game winners. Now not only do we have to win in Cleveland where we don't in the playoffs and basically don't in regular season, and next game is a must win as there's really no more room to lose in Toronto.

Is it still winnable? Hell yes. Will I be back loud and proud for game 2? No question. But there's no denying it became an uphill battle. This isn't John wall it's LeBron fuckin James. We let them off the mat. The majority of the reactions today outside of sonny are that of passion, not immaturity.

[A.I]

Sorry DS but the "always sunny in Toronto" approach and calling out all the immature fans is disingenuous this time around. I'm one of the most positive around but that was devastating blow. LeBron and love were average and below average respectively. We had multiple clean looks at game winners. Now not only do we have to win in Cleveland where we don't in the playoffs and basically don't in regular season, and next game is a must win as there's really no more room to lose in Toronto.

Is it still winnable? Hell yes. Will I be back loud and proud for game 2? No question. But there's no denying it became an uphill battle. This isn't John wall it's LeBron fuckin James. We let them off the mat. The majority of the reactions today outside of sonny are that of passion, not immaturity.

Agreed, it will be an uphill battle after letting Game 1 slip away, which is why I say Raptors in 7 instead of 6 now

[Rudy Bargnani]

[Nilanka]

Sorry DS but the "always sunny in Toronto" approach and calling out all the immature fans is disingenuous this time around. I'm one of the most positive around but that was devastating blow. LeBron and love were average and below average respectively. We had multiple clean looks at game winners. Now not only do we have to win in Cleveland where we don't in the playoffs and basically don't in regular season, and next game is a must win as there's really no more room to lose in Toronto.

Is it still winnable? Hell yes. Will I be back loud and proud for game 2? No question. But there's no denying it became an uphill battle. This isn't John wall it's LeBron fuckin James. We let them off the mat. The majority of the reactions today outside of sonny are that of passion, not immaturity.

A friendly reminder that during LeBron's 2nd stint with Cleveland, we've won just 7 games in 23 attempts (regular season and playoffs combined). That's a MASSIVE psychological edge. And blowing game 1 simply added to it.

[KeonClark]

A friendly reminder that during LeBron's 2nd stint with Cleveland, we've won just 7 games in 23 attempts (regular season and playoffs combined). That's a MASSIVE psychological edge. And blowing game 1 simply added to it.

And I believe 1 out of 12 in the land of cleve.

[Demographic Shift]

Sorry DS but the "always sunny in Toronto" approach and calling out all the immature fans is disingenuous this time around. I'm one of the most positive around but that was devastating blow. LeBron and love were average and below average respectively. We had multiple clean looks at game winners. Now not only do we have to win in Cleveland where we don't in the playoffs and basically don't in regular season, and next game is a must win as there's really no more room to lose in Toronto.

Is it still winnable? Hell yes. Will I be back loud and proud for game 2? No question. But there's no denying it became an uphill battle. This isn't John wall it's LeBron fuckin James. We let them off the mat. The majority of the reactions today outside of sonny are that of passion, not immaturity.

It is indeed an insurmountable one game lead with a few to go....

Perhaps they should just quit now in the face of all that statistical evidence. I will save a seat for you in business class on the Raptor bandwagon..It’s pretty empty up here right now save for the confident few.