Man, this is shaping up to be a bad playoffs as far as my rooting interests go. In the current round, every team I am rooting for is losing, with the exception of the Cavs who are just tied, but have lost home court advantage. Ultimately though, I will be somewhat happy if any team wins except LA or Boston.
I think we're gonna see the opposite of what happened last year.
The Cavs had two sweeps to the ECF. The Magic had a very tough series against Boston, beat the Cavs and made it to the Finals.
This year, the Magic are gonna have two sweeps to the ECF, and the Cavs are gonna have the very tough series against Boston, beat the Magic and MAKE IT TO THE FINALS.
Originally posted by Mairuzu
Magic hasn't really been looking all the special... i mean... compared to who they are facing up against these past 2 rounds.Those two teams were no where near as good as OKC
You're just a Laker homer.
Do you even watch basketball outside of the Lakers? I mean besides the likelihood that you watch Lebron too.
I can understand to an extent as to why someone might say something like that because the Hawks are not a team that would be able to win a championship and the Magic have had their number for several years now. But they are still the 3rd seed in the east and a 43 point beat down is still impressive.
Is OKC>ATL, imo, yes. Not significantly tho. In a 7 game series it probably would go to OKC in 6 or 7.
And the Bobcats at the 7th seed isn't a good representation of how good they are.
The acquisition of Larry Hughes, Theo Ratliff and Tyrus Thomas improved their record as one of the best in the league after the break and excelled them as one of the top 10 defensive teams. Which is only brought down by their stats prior to the break.
They got swept because the Magic are that good. Shit, they pretty much did it without Dwight. They are the best right now.