Playoffs Discussion

[NetsGM]

Round 1 up.


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[NetsGM]

Extension offers will be out later today.

[WolvesGM-old]

Wolves advance to round 2, overcoming a 3-0 deficit against the Rockets.  Now I have to figure out a way to beat the Mavs... 

[NetsGM]

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[BlazersGM]

Great series Suns !! They were the only team i didnt want to play in Round1 as we struggled
a lot during regular season and i was really scared we might go out of PO's early, and i
was almost right, it was one god damn tough series.

Started with 3pts home loss followed by easy win and another in Phoenix to put things back
on track.

Game 4 was weird, lost 76-85, none of my guys scored more then 13 and Roan led Suns with 18,
 horrible offense from my starters and Suns backups.

Remaining games went to home teams.

Now comes Jazz altough i would prefer Spurs, we were 2-2 in regular season,
its gonna be another tough task.

[WizardsGM]

Wolves advance to round 2, overcoming a 3-0 deficit against the Rockets.  Now I have to figure out a way to beat the Mavs... 

Sounds like a frequent occurance in FBB for round 1's (overcoming a 3-0 deficit)

[BlazersGM]

Wolves advance to round 2, overcoming a 3-0 deficit against the Rockets.  Now I have to figure out a way to beat the Mavs... 

please do so !!

[SpursGM-old]

Started off winning 2 of the first 3 games but then Uner only played 5 minutes in game 4.  We were able to to stretch the series to 7 games but without our floor leader we just didn't have enough to overcome the Jazz.

Tough way to finish out the season....

[NetsGM]

That wasn't exactly worth waiting for 

The easy prediction here was that Dwight would destroy us - and he did, thoroughly at that. I matched up my best defending big against him and trapped often to try and neutralize him abit, but he just went over or through it - or both. I went with McHale as option one to try to exploit the only matchup I thought I could win to no avail. Hats off and congrats to Magic for a good series and to Dwight himself - he carried that team, and still should have earned MVP honours.

Still happy with the season for the Nets, and pleased to have made the playoffs. Three very solid contributing rooks who will only get better, two 2nd year guys in the rotation who found useful roles, and another rook whose riddle I havent quited solved yet but who has plenty of upside, along with some good contributing vets. Future looks pretty bright to me.

Good luck the rest of the way to the elite eight 

[CavsGM]

Wow, the 2nd round. First appearance there in a long time. Anyways, great series Bulls. It went back and forth all the way, you put up a good fight. Now let's see about the Magic. Beat them 3-1 during the season, all three wins being blowouts, two of them coming in the last sim. The one loss was also by only 3 points. But, you never know what can happen in the playoffs...

[SonicsGM]

This is the first time the Sonics made the playoffs only to bow out before the finals.  The Mavs were just too good for this Sonic team.  Congrats Mavs

[MagicGM]

nice series nets.

[Str8westcoasta]

What a jip!

Dominated the Wolves for 3 games then they won the next 4...

[NetsGM]

Round 2 up.

Nice to have some new blood competing (outside of the Hornets)

[BlazersGM]

Good series Jazz !

Well this one much more easier then we expected, i expected same tough fight we had against Suns but DC changes we've made
obviously made things very easy and well there's the experience of our players in PO's.

1st game already showed PO's are different, Rivera who owned Boozer during regular season games was lost here, Phelps remains to
be our 1st scorer with all the credit, Hoffa posted 20/17, his experience means a lot in playoffs to this team and so does Booz's
who had a 18/16 game.

Game 2 was aother easy win, Jazz had Toney going crazy but no help from others while our starting 5 all did their jobs well.

Game 3 was a crucial win by 3pts in Salt Lake City, Boozer who had awful 4 regular season games vs Jazz was a clear decider in this
series, i was really worried as i tought if he plays in same awful way he did we wouldnt stand a chance, i almost removed him as
option but he proved me wrong. Led the team with 26/17 followed close by Phelps and Hoffa.

Game 4 we lost easily, and in that game was the Booz of regular season duels.

Game 5 was a real thriller, Hoffa was blown out by Dial but Phelps,Boozer and Telf had enough concentration in last seconds to
take us to another CF.



....and well PO's are different, but i think Jazz made mistake by not starting Rivera on PF, he stopped Boozer in regular season
games, and Booz was unstoppable in this series as Rivera was benched.

And for 2nd straight time favs Mavs are out before our clash in CF finals, hopefully we can make advantage of that like last time and go
to another finals,  altough its not gonna be easy at all, Wolves have a great team and whoever beats the Mavs can beat anyone. This year we finally have backup center/PF unlike last 2 seasons, and especially last season when without Hoffa and with just 1 center we went out easily in round 1.