Playoffs Discussion

[BlazersGM]

Round 2 up.

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

and we're young blood ? 

[MavsGM]

Bad offense or good defense on the Wolves?  98 points was the highest and 64 points was our lowest.  On the 64 points game we shot 29.1%?  Old man KG still can play at a high level at the age of 39.   Congrat Wolves on the win.

[BlazersGM]

....and now only a miracle can take us to the finals, 3 regular season blow outs by Wolves and one hard 4pt win in Portland, but there we had Chandler so obviously problems were up front as Gatling was held to 38 % from field and 36 % from 3pt by Clement and Cheeks and Telf had basically same production. Wolves had much more help from bench tough but hope dies last.


Mission impossible, but let's hope.

[CavsGM]

I'm amazed. I thought we had the upper hand over the Magic, but I certainly did not expect a sweep. Game 1 was very close but the next three were much more decisive. It was a real group effort, too. That's what I love about my team. Usually, almost everyone contributes in a big way to help the team win. And if if there's a game when only one player really shines, it's a different guy every time. So we've made it to the Conference Finals for the first time ever. There's a tough challenge ahead with the Hornets, who have always given the Cavs trouble. They have, however, shown signs of weakness in these first two rounds. The Hornets won the season series 3-1, although we took the final game. It should be interesting...

[WolvesGM-old]

Bad offense or good defense on the Wolves?  98 points was the highest and 64 points was our lowest.  On the 64 points game we shot 29.1%?  Old man KG still can play at a high level at the age of 39.   Congrat Wolves on the win.

thanks man.  I fully expected to lose the series, but anything can happen...  I feared your offense most, so I was shocked to see the series become a defensive battle.  I have no logical explanation for what just happened...

Now onto the Blazers who was hoping that I would advance.  Well, he got his wish, I'll try my best to make him regret that.

[CelticsGM]

Short break from my vacation, and what I see makes me pretty happy:

I'm proud of you guys wearing Celtics green !!!

Taking care of the Heat came expected (but still, with my history I always expect the worst), but the 2nd round matchup with the Hornets was probably even more satisfying. Taking the huge favourite who looked pretty sharp all season long (when everyone was healthy) to 7 games, winning twice on foreign territory, is something to look up to.

Too bad I gave away two games in the 4th quarter, twice losing 6pt leads in pivotal games 3 and 4 - at home no less - before tying the series at 3-3 with the first road loss from the Hornets in these playoffs. The final game was a wash, but i was expecting not to be in contention at all from the start.

With this team still having 2 seasons left to contend (and Childress on board or a full season) I expect a lot more to come ...
 


Congratulations to hornets and cavs, by far the 2 best teams in the east this season.
I'm still shocked at the Mavs exit. This team shold win title after title and goes out lke this. Amazing how the Blazers could have a finals spot facing the 7th, 6th and 5th seed in the playoffs ...
 

[BlazersGM]

Now onto the Blazers who was hoping that I would advance.  Well, he got his wish, I'll try my best to make him regret that.

Hehe, its not a difficult task for you, its more difficult for me to stop you, it would be more difficult for me if it was Mavs, but you aint easy task either and honestly i think you'll advance to finals, i already cursed myself for gettings Suns in round1, but somehow i went trough, Jazz was easier opponent but i was afraid again, its easy to lose against much better team then worse. And well, this one scares me really, its gonna be FBB decided as season games didnt make much sense, our PG's were the same, i stopped Gatling in every game who's your best offensive player, you stopped Phelps every game who is mine, but your frontcourt and role players made difference in first 3 encounters, then last one we won after we got Chandler who definitely made us a better team over last few sims and we improved A LOT our season record since then, and in PO's, and he brought depth to our super weak frontcourt  so it should be interesting, even i give you advantage, you have more options and better offense, but hope dies last

[CelticsGM]

Hehe, its not a difficult task for you, its more difficult for me to stop you, it would be more difficult for me if it was Mavs, but you aint easy task either and honestly i think you'll advance to finals, i already cursed myself for gettings Suns in round1, but somehow i went trough, Jazz was easier opponent but i was afraid again, its easy to lose against much better team then worse. And well, this one scares me really, its gonna be FBB decided as season games didnt make much sense, our PG's were the same, i stopped Gatling in every game who's your best offensive player, you stopped Phelps every game who is mine, but your frontcourt and role players made difference in first 3 encounters, then last one we won after we got Chandler who definitely made us a better team over last few sims and we improved A LOT our season record since then, and in PO's, and he brought depth to our super weak frontcourt  so it should be interesting, even i give you advantage, you have more options and better offense, but hope dies last

how can you need 192 words to say: "Damn, i shouldn't have bragged in the first place ..."
 

[MavsGM]

I'm still shocked at the Mavs exit. This team shold win title after title and goes out lke this.

It's not the first time my team let me down, almost got use to it so it wouldn't hurt so much.  It happended when I had Dirk too but the most painful part was my team lost in the first round two times as the #1 seed.

[BlazersGM]

how can you need 192 words to say: "Damn, i shouldn't have bragged in the first place ..."
 

It's very very simple, im drunk so i have no idea what im writing, i mean i have, but i get lost quickly

[KingsGM-old]

Mavs're out?!

[BlazersGM]

no, its a bug

[NetsGM]

Conference finals simmed.

That game 7 victory by the Cavs was sure impressive....

[BlazersGM]

congratulations Wolves, and good luck in finals, i've tried with some tactic changes but it was just not enough to stop you, too much defensive power you had comparing to my team.

I was thinking about starting Chandler on KG 'cause Boozer sucked in regular season and did now again, that was one mistake i've made and also i tought about starting Buehler on Gatling but Clement did excellent job in all 4 encounters during regular season but obviously in playoffs he's not the same caliber, Gatling destroyed him, well at least now i know what i'll do next PO's if we meet again.

Good luck in finals, bring title back to the West !!

[BlazersGM]

That game 7 victory by the Cavs was sure impressive....

how about game 6 victory ? last 2 were really impressive, its gonna be very interesting finals.