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+++WESTERN CONFERENCE+++​

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G 1 -- Tue. May 19, @ Golden State, 9 p.m., ESPN
G 2 -- Thu. May 21, @ Golden State, 9 p.m., ESPN
G 3 -- Sat. May 23, @ Houston, 9 p.m., ESPN
G 4 -- Mon. May 25, @ Houston, 9 p.m., ESPN
G 5 * -- Wed. May 27, @ Golden State 9 p.m., ESPN
G 6 * -- Fri. May 29, @ Houston, 9 p.m., ESPN
G 7 * -- Sun. May 31 @ Golden State, 9 p.m., ESPN

+++EASTERN CONFERENCE+++​

vs

G 1 -- Wed. May 20, @ Atlanta, 8:30 p.m., TNT
G 2 -- Fri. May 22, @ Atlanta, 8:30 p.m., TNT
G 3 -- Sun. May 24, @ Cleveland, 8:30 p.m., TNT
G 4 -- Tue. May 26, @ Cleveland, 8:30 p.m., TNT
G 5 * -- Thu. May 28, @ Atlanta, 8:30 p.m., TNT
G 6 * -- Sat. May 30, @ Cleveland, 8:30 p.m., TNT
G 7 * -- Mon. June 1, @ Atlanta, 8:30 p.m., TNT

 

[BigJonsson]

GO RAPTORS!`

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

The Bulls brought me here, let's do this.

 

[Blablurn]

GO CAVS

Sleep tight, Heat Basketball Club.

 

[El Topo]

Anyone but the Spurs please.

 

[DJwest]

Anyone but the Spurs please.

GO SPURS!!!!!

 

[Doc Holliday]

I still got my bulls avatar from the 2010 playoffs...lets do this. Drose has the industrial strength duct tape on the knees! He went to Batman's knee doctor!

 

[Confrontation]

Best case scenario: Wolves win and Spurs win. WCF: Spurs-Warriors and AD instead of Westbrook in the playoffs.

 

[Derwind]

GO RAPTORS!`

What this man said.

 

[Into]

Brad Stevens COTY, and its "not even close"

Cant wait for the WC slaughter fest, and the utter boredom in the eastern conference, where the only games i actually want to see is Bulls vs Cavs and Hawks vs Cavs. Everything else is meh.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Brad Stevens COTY, and its "not even close"

Cant wait for the WC slaughter fest, and the utter boredom in the eastern conference, where the only games i actually want to see is Bulls vs Cavs and Hawks vs Cavs. Everything else is meh.

Agreed! But I wouldn't be shocked if my bulls, cavs or Hawks lost in the first round.

 

[detectiveconan1]

GO CAVS

Sleep tight, Heat Basketball Club.

Lol the first Lebron/Cavs bandwagon fan to post in here!

Brad Stevens COTY, and its "not even close"

:lol

Warriors/Spurs are going to win the championship, sorry teams from the Eastern Conference. I'm leaning slightly towards the Spurs though, especially with how they are playing right now.

 

[chicagocubsfan]

Niko Mirotic, 2015 Finals MVP

 

[spyder_ur]

It's kind of hard for me to imagine anyone other than the Spurs, Warriors or Cavs winning. Oh and my Celtics of course.

Slightly less excited for the Playoffs this year than past years. Still, some of those Western series will be fun, depending on how those 2-6 seeds shake out. I just want to see the Clippers against either Houston or Memphis. GS-Memphis might be fun too. Z-Bo might kill Draymond Green, and it'd be interesting seeing how the Warriors would hold up against those bigs for a whole series.

 

[LyleLanley]

Brad Stevens will bring us back to the promised land. Celtics in 4.

 

[Gully State]

Warriors!!!

 

[Misterhbk]

Warriors won't lose more than 2 total games in the first two rounds.

Then beat the Tired Spurs in 6

Then beat the Hawks in 6

DubNation to the chip

 

[Gully State]

Steph is ready...

Yeah I know it's practice...but still that's quite impressive.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

the chase for the 10th pick begins now. Tank Heat TANKKKKKK

 

[Benjamin1981]

Go Bulls and please stay healthy Derrick. Playing the Cavs in the second round will be exciting.

In west the Spurs will suck the soul out of the Warriors. They have one more run left in them. I can feel it.

 

[Gully State]

http://mashable.com/2015/04/14/spuran-spuran-music-video/

 

[WoodWERD]

http://mashable.com/2015/04/14/spuran-spuran-music-video/

I was just going to make a thread about this, glad I searched ha. Spuran Spuran is taking it this year...they're going to be hard to beat in 7 games.

 

[sooperkool]

With the 10th pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, the Miami Heat select.....

Willie Cauley Stein from the university of Kentucky.

 

[LyleLanley]

With the 10th pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, the Miami Heat select.....

Willie Cauley Stein from the university of Kentucky.

This thread is for winners, get this loser talk out of here.

 

[Banana Aeon]

BULLS GONNA RUN THIS SHIT!

They finally got my homeboy on that LeBron HGH. D Rose out for revengence.

 

[jl4855]

raptors resting to face.. wiz?

spurs are beast

 

[Gully State]

Offseason NBA thread

 

[UnObtainium17]

Anyone but the Spurs please.

This is true.

 

[xHiryu]

Take us to the promised land, I am ready yo

The Chosen One shall be healthy and put on a show.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Take us to the promised land, I am ready yo

The Chosen One shall be healthy and put on a show.

If anything they have some crazy karma in their side. I'm praying to the basketball gods!

 

[zychi]

Take us to the promised land, I am ready yo

The Chosen One shall be healthy and put on a show.

*Stacy King voice*
KEEP YOUR HOPES DOWN CHICAGO BEEP BEEP!



Actually, they tend to play better without all the pressure thrown on Derrick. They need to learn what defense is soon tho. I think they can make the Finals, but playing GS or SAS is gonna be rough for them if they don't re-learn what defense is.

 

[Fjordson]

Go Dubs. Would be nice if the Spurs clinch the 2 seed so we don't have to face them until the conference finals.

 

[xHiryu]

Bulls - Warriors in the Finals.

Game 7, 3OT. Rose does this again for the game winner.

Then I proceed to cry like a fucking baby.

Spoiler

Hella hyped for these playoffs though, seems like its gonna be an amazing one

 

[Muzy72]

Go Spurs Go!

 

[Roland_Gunner]

Warriors won't lose more than 2 total games in the first two rounds.

Then beat the Tired Spurs in 6

Then beat the Hawks in 6

What Tired Spurs? They took the first 60 games of the season to get ready for the playoffs. Kawhi's going to take Steph's soul in the WCF.

 

[Fjordson]

I think Warriors' home court advantage will take them to the finals. Too stronk in Oakland.

Spoiler

hope this doesn't jinx us

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Dion Waiters will tell YNB to sit down, average 27/9/7, and carry OKC to the Finals.

Spoiler

And then he'll wake up and it will be Tuesday.

 

[Gully State]

BTW...can someone summarize tonight's playoff implications? Specifically 2-7 in WC...Pelicans have to beat the Spurs tonight to get in the playoffs while OKC has to beat the Timberpuppies. That I know..

 

[Randolph Freelander]

BTW...can someone summarize tonight's playoff implications? Specifically 2-7 in WC...Pelicans have to beat the Spurs tonight to get in the playoffs while OKC has to beat the Timberpuppies. That I know..

http://espn.go.com/blog/marc-stein/post/_/id/3727/every-playoff-scenario-on-last-day-of-season

 

[Fjordson]

BTW...can someone summarize tonight's playoff implications? Specifically 2-7 in WC...Pelicans have to beat the Spurs tonight to get in the playoffs while OKC has to beat the Timberpuppies. That I know..

Here's an article breaking down some of that:

–The Warriors’ first-round match-up will be...

* New Orleans IF New Orleans wins tonight.

* New Orleans IF New Orleans loses and Oklahoma City loses.

* Oklahoma City IF New Orleans loses and Oklahoma City wins.


–In the second round, if the Warriors advance, they’d play the winner of the 4 vs. 5 seeds; Portland is locked in as the 4 seed (but will not have home court); 5 seed will be...

* Houston IF Houston, San Antonio and Memphis all win tonight.

* Houston IF Houston and San Antonio win and Memphis loses.

* Houston IF San Antonio wins and Houston and Memphis lose.

* Houston IF San Antonio, Houston and Memphis all lose.

* Memphis IF Memphis and San Antonio win and Houston loses.

* Memphis IF Memphis wins and San Antonio and Houston lose.

* Memphis IF Memphis and Houston win and San Antonio loses.

* San Antonio IF San Antonio loses, Houston wins and Memphis loses.

That last scenario is the only one that would put the lethal Spurs in the Warriors’ second-round path.

With a win tonight, San Antonio would clinch the 2 seed–and would be out of the Warriors’ bracket until a possible Western Conference final match-up.



-Another scenario: If the Spurs lose tonight, it of course would put New Orleans into the 8th seed but also could send the Spurs as far as the 6th seed, if Houston and Memphis win (coupled with the San Antonio loss).

-The Clippers’ victory last night assured them of no worse than the 3rd seed. The Warriors’ arch-rivals cannot play the Warriors until the conference finals.

The Clippers will be the 2nd seed if Houston and San Antonio both lose tonight, otherwise they’re the 3rd seed.

---

Nobody outside of San Antonio scares me in the West, so hopefully they get the 2 seed.

 

[Gully State]

Yeah the problem with SA is that heads up against the W's this year, all 3 games...they dictated the tempo. Even during game two when we won, the Spurs were dictating the style of play for the game up until Curry barked at the ref and erupted. No other team consistently did that to the Warriors all season.

The most worrying thing is that with game 3 they pierced our meshlike switching defense by not only scrambling our defense laterally through side to side ball movement but splitting it consistently on pick and rolls and cuts to the basket. Good offensive teams do one or the other against us but never both. Also, Pop was smart to attack the Leonard vs Barnes matchup. Kerr should've never even entertained the idea of guarding Kawhi with Barnes and took way too long to switch it.

 

[Fjordson]

Yeah. Spurs will be a really tough matchup. I think homecourt could push us over the top though. I hope.

 

[Gully State]

Yeah. Spurs will be a really tough matchup. I think homecourt could push us over the top though. I hope.

I don't think homecourt will matter much for that series TBH. There's this mental edge that the Spurs enjoy for having dominating us so thoroughly in Oracle for over a decade..It'll take a lot more than Roaracle to turn that one around.

 

[GitarooMan]

I just hope the Celtics can win one game against the Cavs, preferably the first one just to see the media overreact.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Who are the Lakers playing?

Spoiler

 

[Doc Holliday]

Yeah the problem with SA is that heads up against the W's this year, all 3 games...they dictated the tempo. Even during game two when we won, the Spurs were dictating the style of play for the game up until Curry barked at the ref and erupted. No other team consistently did that to the Warriors all season.

The most worrying thing is that with game 3 they pierced our meshlike switching defense by not only scrambling our defense laterally through side to side ball movement but splitting it consistently on pick and rolls and cuts to the basket. Good offensive teams do one or the other against us but never both. Also, Pop was smart to attack the Leonard vs Barnes matchup. Kerr should've never even entertained the idea of guarding Kawhi with Barnes and took way too long to switch it.

exellent post! I missed those games so this was very helpful.

 

[overcast]

Go Houston! Would love revenge against the Blazers, but our team is pretty hurt right now. So..

 

[Eos]

GO RAPTORS

Spoiler

and spurs

 

[CherryWoodFuton]

Cavs Spurs NBA Finals matchup with the Spurs repeat. Pop and Timmy continue to own Lebron

 

[Stabby McSter]

TIME TO DAWN MY OLD IGGY AVATAR