KingGondo said:
Y'all are underrating the shit out of the Thunder vs. the Nuggets. We can counteract everything they want to do--Perk is in Nene's head like Inception, we have the youth and athleticism to prevent them from running, and we have a far better halfcourt offense than they do. We held Denver to 94 points (on the road) and 89 points (at home) in our last 2 meetings, and this is a team that averages 107 PPG.
Sure Karl is a better coach than Brooks, but there's nothing Karl can do to overcome our overall advantage. We are their worst possible matchup in the first round.
Celtics in 5
Magic in 6
Bulls in 5
Heat in 4
Blazers in 6
Lakers in 4
Spurs in 5
Thunder in 5
Plus, woo! 3 games on TNT!
Yeah, its not like the Nuggets have the Thunders number or anything, there's really no reason to think they'd win. Nuggets don't have a go to go guy, Thunder have 2. Thunder have great size to stop people from going to the rim at will, and have a great bench to match the Nuggets bench. It should be an interesting series, but I see no way the Nuggets win this, and not saying that being a Thunder fan.
As for the Mavs, who I still watch regularly, they seriously got the worst match up. It'll be interesting to see if Chandler/Haywood can contain LA to some extent. I think Camby will be guarding Dirk, but can't remember how good he guards him, or they might try Crash on him too. I don't really see the Mavs beating the Blazers, they just don't have a 2nd reliable scorer; Jet is trash, unless he's actually playing good, which doesn't happen anymore in the POs.
Celtics in 6
Magic in 7
Bulls in 5
Heat in 6
Blazers in 6
Lakers in 5
Spurs in 7
Thunder in 6
