Sup folks, you know with the NBA Playoffs jumpin off this weekend, I had to speak on it.. Throw my predictions and word bout the matchups and stuff.. Brace yourself, like overbite..
Start off with the East side of things first..
Orlando Magic and Atlanta Hawks: Decent matchup I believe.. No one can match up with Dwight "chocolate shoulders" Howard, as evident in game one.. Hawks are stacked with mad talent, but too much talent is a curse at times.. I think this series has the potential to go to 7 because if the Hawks play how they should then they can hang with the Magic with ease.. Joe Johnson is niice, and he needs to kill, as well as J Crawford.. To contend fully they need one or two more players to step up too like a Josh Smith and short ol Al Horford.. The strategy to just let Dwight kill and hold everyone else seemed to work in Atl's favor in Game 1, so well see what adjustments the Magic make in Game 2.. My call on this is Magic in 7..
Miami Heat and Philly 76ers: This isn't even a contest, or at least shouldn't be. I haven't seen the 6ers play all year, but I mean they playing the Miami Heat, ahahah.. It's gon be very hard for them to beat the Heat in a 7 game series.. Game 1 showed a little of what Philly can bring to the table as far as maybe making it a little hard for Mia, but they do have Bron Wade and (the never mentioned unless he has a bad game) Bosh.. Philly might can sneak one, maybe two in at home, but I'm gon call this one Heat 4-1..
Chicago Bulls and Indiana Pacers: First off, big ups to IE repper D.Collison for the Pacers.. He was Hoopin that first game too.. As far as the series goes, the Bulls had the best record, and best player in the regular season.. Therefore they basically should sweep this series, if things go how they posed to.. But it is the NBA, so anything can happen.. The Pacers had the whole game, until D.Rose did his thing and Korver hit that Trey, I mean some people scared now cuz they feel it gave the Pacers confidence, thinking they can hang with Chi.. I don't know Rose, but he seems like a super competitor so I'm sure he's gon rally up his team to not let that happen again.. This series could go 5 maybe even 6, but I'm gon put it on Rose to step up and bang on his team, and make this sweep happen.. Bulls in 4..
NY Knicks and Boston Celtics: This is easily my favorite matchup of the first round.. Call it the most intriguing because this is probably the only Series that is 50/50.. I should put it out that KG is my favorite player and I respect Ray Allen and Pierce game so I'm pullin for the C's, as I'd like to see them get one more with Shaq, cuz those are all "good guys" in the L.. At the same time tho, Melo game is sooo niice.. Illest triple threat player I've seen, cuz will rock you to sleep and pull up, stutter step, step back, rocker step, hezi out this World, to the rim, it don't matter, dude has a nice game offensively, prolly the best scorer in the L (debate me).. With all that being said tho, the question is the Knicks D, can they hold the C's? They have all the pieces to be a decent defensive team, besides a giant underneath, but they got athletic bigs in Turiaf and Amare that can contest at the rim so if they "buy in" (Coach Smith) to the D side they should be decent.. Boston just needs to do them and hold Melo and Amare a little bit, and make sure they completely lock up anyone else.. I wanna see this series go down to the wire every game as Game 1 displayed (Melo aint have to try and be a hero tho, ahahhaha).. So I'm callin this one Boston in 7.. (Watch Shaq get off when he come back too, ahaha)..
Left coast the best coast.. West Coast now..
San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies: Game one was a nice lil suprise for me as it was for everyone else I'm guessing.. No one really seen the Griz taking game one for sure, but as I said earlier, it is the NBA.. The Cavs beat some top teams this season and no one woulda thought that neither.. But umm, Geee-no-billy aint even play, so I call that game one W a fluke, and the Spurs gon use they elderness and win the next 4 in a row.. So Spurs in 5..
Portland Trail Blazers and Dallas Mavericks: Very interesting matchup, this one can go either way too I think.. Dallas is another one of those teams that's stacked, like retardedly stacked, they got people on they squad I aint even know bout for a min, like Peja, really? Crazy, but they don't play no D ahaha, cept for Tyson Chandler.. Dirk is niice, but he's 7 foot and shoots jumpers, that's not a good move for the squad, he needa get some boards.. Flipside of things, Portland stacked too, Gerald Wallace is key in they success cuz he can lock Dirk and do all the dirty work, rebounds, blocks, run the floor, all the little stuff that teams need.. Aldridge is raw too, does all the things that Dirk should do, and that's why they gon win this series.. Think there's a possibility to go 7 but, I'm gon call Portland in 6.. Gon be some good games tho..
Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Hornets: Depending on whether Gasol or Gasoft shows up indicates which team will win the game.. Gasoft was present in Game One therefore the Lakers took a L.. My mans Ike pointed out that it seemed like LA aint even care that they was finna lose, I just took it as they are true vets and realize that this is only Game one, I'm not advocating taking the L, but I'm saying that they don't really need to trip, just do what they posed to do.. CP3 will kill DFish if they keep him on him for the whole series, that will be a problem, although I don't see Paul winning a game by himself if the Lakers come how they posed to.. I think they'll put Kobe on Paul kinda how they put Kobe on Russ last year, but well see.. Bench production is key for N.O. and that'll help them contend throughout the entire series.. Since they stole game 1, they got a little confidence, so I'm gon give them one more win, but I'll call the Lakers in 6..
Oklahoma Thunder and Denver Nuggets: My mans NeLoc put it best, "First to 150 wins the game" ahahaahha.. This is a high scoring matchup, everyone keeps saying that no D will be played, but game one had a billion blocks that I seen, so I wouldn't call it no D.. They put like 4 diff people on KD and he still murdered them, dude is just too raw, skinny and all.. And Russ will get off cuz he's too fast in the open floor.. Even tho Lawson and Ray Felton quick as well, they aint got the height to really bother Russ a lot.. Nuggets have 8 or 9 offensive threats, and Nene went crazy with the left hand bang ons tonight ahhahah.. He's very underrated, he can finish with either hand, decent size, and plays pretty good D.. There prolly will be a fight between him and Perk before the series over tho, should be funny.. The game tonight was controversial with that basket interference thing that gave the Thunder that go ahead bucket, there will probably be a Challenge Flag entrance into the NBA rules next season like the NFL.. But, I think the key for OKC is going to be bench production, the Nuggets got potential starters coming off the bench so there's an advantage for them, JHarden and Maynor gon have to bring bout 10-12 pts off the bench while Russ and KD get 35 each ahhaa in order to get the points.. Pretty good series I see brewing tho, I'm gon roll with OKC is 6, Nuggets don't have a closer.. Melo?.. Hahhaha..
Those are my calls, thus far, I think I'll speak on every round, or if my mind change or something I'll throw it out there.. Looks like it's gon be a lot of good games tho this year..
But umm, late night, time for the kid to knock.. Debate my picks, like em, hate, bash, call me crazy, whatever..
Til then its always Peace, Love & Soul..
D.No, signing off..
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