Kiyaman

The New York Knicks inferior B-Ball may have made alot of us sloppy in knowing what it takes to build and have a NBA Championship Team in the millenium.
The Knicks havn't been a competive team since 1998-99 season.

Now it's time to see where everyone in this FORUM overall B-Ball standards are about a decent team, winning team, and Championship Team.
Give your opinion on the first-round teams to the teams that make it to the FINALS.

Eastern Conference:

Boston vs Hawks
Detroit vs 76ers
Cleveland vs Wizards
Orlando vs Raptors

Western Conference:

Lakers vs Denver
Hornets vs Dallas
Spurs vs Phoenix
Rockets vs Utah

What Four Teams will be in the Conference FINALS?

Kiyaman

Boston 2-1 lead over the Hawks in this series has become a big stepping stone for the Hawks rookie Al Horford. The Bibby trade was essential for the Hawks.
Boston in 5

The Detroit Pistons players have way better postseason experience than coach Flip Saunders. And Philly coach Cheeks has been taking advantage of every wrong move the Pistons make.
The series is tied at 2-2 heading into Detroit.
Detroit in 7

The Orlando Magic is exploiting Superman big time in this series leading 3-1.
The Raptors dont have a prair other than help from the officials.
The Raptors Guards Caldron & T.J. Ford can not do anything to slow down Superman, Lewis, and Turk.
Orlando Magic in 5.

Cleveland Cavs Lebron James is missing Gooden & Hughes in this series but he has prevailed the beating the Wizards been giving him with a 3-1 lead.
Cavs in 5.

The Lakers Coach Phil Jackson cant see himself losing one postseason game against bum coach Karl. The Nugget Players have to coach themselves for at least one win in Denver with the Lakers leading the series 3-0. The Nuggets have the players in Carter, Iverson, Melo, K-Mart, Camby, Kleiza, Smith, and Najera, its the playoff coach they are missing.
Coach Phil Jackson will give it his all to sweep both the first round and second round teams he meet. Lakers Sweep.

The Championship Spurs dont have any pity on their first round team this postseason with the destine Lakers heading to the Western Conference Finals. The Phoenix Suns bumbed into the wrong team to f with in the first round. The Spurs lead the series 3-1 heading into San Antonio.
Spurs in 5.

The New Orleans Hornets has shocked everyone except the Fans that seen what Coach Byron Scott could do with a team. He has framed PG-Chris Paul into being a Super Star in the NBA. And has one of the best underratted PF (West) in the NBA. It did not take Byron Scott long to get Tyson Chandler and Petersen to perform at the next level at a consistent basis.
The Dallas Mavs has been petrified of the Hornets uptempo game and grinding defense. The Jason kidd trade is not working so well with the Honets leading the series 3-1 going into New Orleans.
Hornets in 6.

The Houston Rockets are falling short in the series against the Utah Jazz whom has out played them in every phase of this series. Jazz have a 3-1 lead. Jazz in 6.

Some good Knick news:
Alot of teams that get knocked out of the first round will be doing some heavy trading this offseason.

knickstorm

detroit vs philly will go to 7 games........as will celts hawks

MrJayremmie

The playoffs have been crazy in teh east, imo.

I thought that Boston and Detroit would sweep and have no problem, yet both of those are tied at 2-2.

I thought that Washington would beat Cleveland, but Cleveland is up 3-1, and i thought that Toronto and Orlando would be a good series, but Orlando has alraedy taken it.

The playoffs are awesome!

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Kiyaman

I have to agree with you on the Eastern Conference playoffs, I too was shocked about the outcome.

The Western Conference playoffs has also been rather crazy with teams taking on a huge contract like "Shaq & Kidd" to get blown out in the first round by 4-1.
Plus the Denver Nuggets "Iverson & Melo" letting Lakers "Kobe Bryant" sweep them in the first round.
The Houston Rockets "Tracy Mcgrady" seems to be the only one holding ground from an early elimination in the West first round with a 3-2 lead by the Jazz with the 6th game in Utah.

MrJayremmie

I was definitley dissapointed in the Nuggets not even putting up a fight really. I wouldn't be surprised to see some major changes there this off-season... which might be good news for a team like New York with maybe Martin or Camby or Carmelo available.

I'm voting for Atlanta in the east. How sick would it be to win this game, and head back to atlanta up 3-2!

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USSKittyHawk

New Orleans and the Lakers look great, I enjoy the teamwork that these guys are displaying, wish my team had some a cohesive unit like these guys. I think the Nuggets, Mavs, and Suns need to blow up their respective teams and start over.

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Kiyaman

The Hornets are 2-0 vs the Spurs, are they the better team?

NO is a perfect team, Great PG, SG who plays good D and can score, SF who shots lights out, PF who has all the tools and is full of fire, C who controls the paint, and a rookie with boatloads of pontental and good work ethic. My jealousy wants me to hate em.
Byron Scott!

The Hornets are definitely stacked.
What amazes me most is how careful Paul is with the ball. In the 7 games thus far this postseason, he has 85 assists to just 9 turnovers.
They definitely have all the tools needed to make a serious run, even in the strong West. In addition to all their talent on the floor, they have a coach who has been to the Finals as a player and a coach. So he knows what to expect.

When I seen how Bryron Scott coach his practices back in 2002-3 of the Nets, I was told that all the coaching format credit should go to assistant coach Eddie Jordan & Mike O'Koren. And that was the format that all three coaches could not get Marbury to follow alongside of KVH.

Byron Scott build the fastest backcourt in the NBA with Kidd & Kittles.
Now he build an atrocious swift backcourt with Chris & Peterson.
Did Byron hold a grudge against Kidd? 4-1

The Byron Scott Hornets vs Spurs 7 game series with the Homecourt in favor.

MrJayremmie

All NO has to do is win 1/2 in San Antonio and they are home free, imo. I don't know if SA can win in New Orleans, unles they take both games in SA.

I would love to see a New Orleans vs. LA WCF. I think the Jazz are going to take LA to the bring though. I can see them taking game 2, and i can see LA not even getting close in Utah.

The Jazz, in LA, with just playing 40 hours previously, in foul trouble, and with the Lakers resting for a long time, took the lakers to the edge in a close game. With a few adjustments i think Utah will take this game. Williams played horribly, and you can't count on that too often.

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Kiyaman

You did'nt know? this is Kobe season!
Kobe made that announcement last offseason by demanding a trade that turned the NBA League upside down and right side up bidding on Kobe.
While Kobe signed up for the USA Team to show all the NBA Star Players who the real NBA Super-Star Player is.
The Jazz is a good team with coach Sloan, but dont get it mixed up when it comes to Coach Jax and Kobe.

Pure DEFENSE!
in the Cavs vs Celtics Playoff Series.

Boston won the first game which was tight down the stretch to the final seconds of the game.
King James shot 2-18 fg, and gave out 10 turnovers.
While Pierce shot a 2-14 fg, 6 turnovers, and his buddy Ray Allen shot 0-4 fg, and donated 4 turnovers.


The Cavs actually have the three players that could beat the Celtics Big-3 in 6 games in their lineup of "6.8 James, 6.7 Pavlovic, and 6.7 Szczerbiak". These 3 players are G/F that knows how to space the court on offense & defense. When you add a 6.2 PG-Gibson and a 6.10 Center Varegao the Celtics become overmatched (with 4-peremeter shooters).
Cavs coach Brown seem scared to put in all three of his scoring G/F at the sametime keeping one on the bench resting.
I hope he seen in this first game the Boston clamp on Lebron in the paint is a defensive plan structured early in the regular season that worked, and still is working in the postseason.

USSKittyHawk

Chris Paul is the truth, why can't we clear cap space and try to get him instead of Lebron when he becomes a free agent? Wouldn't you rather have someone at QB aka PG with great leadership skills and poise to run your franchsie, and build around that? I want to see fresh faces in the finals, New Orleans, Lakers, unfortunately Boston. lol

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Gotham2krazy

My Picks: LAL, NOH, BOS, DET

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