***2010 NBA Playoffs Game Thread***

mad55557777 · Franchise Player Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 23673

yeah the King got bounced early again,

eureca · Franchise Player Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 15847

The big Western Conference series against the Nuggets, Mavs, Spurs never happened. Instead we got a young Thunder that pushed us another year of dominating the Jazz and the Suns as are big WCF battle. Obviously a Celtics series will wake everyone up.

Vicky T · Star Player Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Posts: 1629

Quiet? lol no

There have been upsets galore.

suckycrapkins · Star Player Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 2717

A lot of fans at the start of the season felt that it would come down to us & the Celtics in an epic battle. The best has been saved for last!
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Balki Bartokomous · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:28 pm Post subject:

can't wait till the nba is offered in 3D like espn has been hyping for soccer coverage

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Fleur-de-Lis · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:30 pm Post subject:

http://espn.go.com/nba/dailydime/_/page/dime-100528/daily-dime

Vote for the Lakers there

55% think Celtics are winning the Finals.
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SlickVic · Star Player Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 2864

I think the overall results have had some surprises:

-Jazz lose Okur and AK and end up beating a Nuggets team with HCA; a team many were expecting to rematch the Lakers in the WCF
-Mavs become the West #2 seed but lose in the first round (Mavs choking is nothing new, but still some pinned them as the best of the West)
-The Spurs, after being hailed the "best 7 seed in the history of the NBA" a series before, are humbly swept by the Suns the following round
-Speaking of the Suns, this is a team through the course of the season people wrote off as first round fodder, and yet they make it to the WCF

-Celtics, many thought they were done and would possibly lose their first round, but end up going to the Finals, winning 2 series without HCA
-Cavs don't make it out of the 2nd round. Despite having a supposed deeper team than last season they end up exiting the playoffs earlier
-Magic go on a tear in the first 2 rounds, swiftly get put in place by the Celtics

I think what's interesting this year is a lot of series ended up having 1 team (sometimes the underdog) with a huge matchup advantage for whatever reason and they ended up winning fairly convincingly. Some of the games themselves were boring because of this, but I really doubt many predicted a lot of these results beforehand.

Dumhead · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:41 pm Post subject:

blow-outs... lebron out... some subpar teams int he east... underachieving teams in the west... and add to that, i think with the exception of a few teams like the Lakers, the NBA is in transition... old contender fading (Spurs), young teams not quite there yet (OKC, Chicago), and a lot of interest in the FA situation pulling fans of respective teams into those discussions instead of the playoffs now that their teams are out.

really, it's a combination of things. But when the Lakers and Celtics start the battle, it will all come back.
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tenike1 · Star Player Joined: 03 Oct 2008 Posts: 2465

Watching the replay of this boston game. god... howard has no skill or touch, it's embarrassing watching him jack up shots.
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It's coming don't you worry.. pretty soon you'll get nervous..

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Dumhead · Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 8:15 am Post subject:

also... in the other major sports markets (NY and Chicago) there are other things going on. NY is occupied with Lebron speculation and the Yankees regular season. They are always fanatical but coming off a WS, fans are more dialed in. And in Chicago, the town is amuck over the Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Finals.

I dunno if this is a huge factor, but together with the other things already mentioned here, it doesn't help.
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