NBA 2007 Playoffs Round 2

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Time to make your predictions for the second round. Even though one of the match-ups has yet to be decided the first game of the second round happens today before the final matchup in the west is decided.

Make you selections!

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My predictions
East:
Bulls - I think the Bulls can take them. They swept a team that is superior to the Magic and they beat the pistons 3-4 times during the regular season. You can say hat doesn't matter because it is now the playoffs but I recall most people say the same thing about GoldenState vs. Dallas.

Cleavland - I don't think they will be able to stop the King and they have home court. Not to mention that they swept their first round rival also and have plenty of rest.

West:
Spurs - I think their defense will slow down the tempo of the game too much for Phoenix to play the way they like. I expect this to go to six of seven with home court not really being a factor. I expect a back and forth.

GoldenState - After they just rained down destruction from 3 land and sped all over Dallas I think they will be about to out shoot, out power and out run either the Jazz or the Rockets.

[Del Murder]

Pistons - I think they are the best team in the East
Cavs - home court will be the difference
Suns - this will be a good series and I think Phoenix will win in 7 but the Spurs could very well take it, NBA Champ will come out of this series

Warriors vs Rockets - Warriors, they are quicker than the Rockets and can put multiple guys on McGrady

Warriors vs. Jazz - Jazz, they are just way too big for GS to handle

[Bloodline666]

I think whoever wins the Suns/Spurs series will be in the Finals. I doubt Utah or Golden State stand a chance against Phoenix or San Antonio.

And speaking of the Suns/Spurs series, that was one hell of a game. Say all you want about the Spurs being a half-court team. Just like two years ago in the Western Conference Finals, the Spurs showed that they can run with the Suns. I see San Antonio taking this one in at least 6.

Jazz/Warriors - I'd have to say the Jazz in 6, but I think momentum also favors Golden State.

Pistons/Bulls - Pistons in 5. This series vividly reminds me of the classic Bulls/Pistons rivalry of the late 80s, when Isiah Thomas and the gang had the "Jordan Rules" as a means of annihilating the Bulls. In fact, I think this is the first time these two are facing each other in the playoffs since 1991.

Cavaliers/Nets - Definitely Cleveland...probably in 6.

[Shadow8017]

West :

Golden State
Pheonix

East:

Cleveland
Detroit

[eestlinc]

I'm rooting for the Warriors.

[El Bandito]

I really think the Nets might pull an upset. Ever since their finals run they've been greatly underachieving, but I think they could step up their game and take the Cavs in 6 or 7.

[PeTeRL90]

Considering that I picked a Bulls/Suns finals before the season started, I have to say that the Bulls will beat the Pistols, and the Suns will beat the Spurs. Both will go to 7.

As for the other two, Cavs over Nets in 6.

Warriors over Jazz in 6. If the Rockets were playing the Warriors, that would be a different result.

[Bloodline666]

I'm watching Around The Horn right now, and one of the guys on the show had the nerve to blame the Suns' loss on the athletic trainers for "not stopping Steve Nash's bleeding quickly enough for him to get back on the floor to try and win the game."

First of all, the Spurs were pretty much already beating the Suns during crunch time, so I don't think Suns could've won the game at the end even if they had Steve Nash on the floor. Secondly, I feel that the officials violated the infectious disease rules (otherwise known as the Magic Johnson Rule) for even allowing Steve Nash on the floor for any possession at all while he was still bleeding (they did that the first time Nash was bandaged up). In fact, I think the athletic trainers did a horrible job, anyway. They should've taken him to the locker room and had him stitched up there, because it was crystal clear to me that what they were doing to him on the bench was NOT going to work. I wonder how many bandages they wasted on his nose.

[Strider]

What's to say the Warriors can't handle Carlos Boozer the same way they handled Dirk Nowitzki? Sure, he's probaby a little more versatile than Dirk, but don't forget the Jazz might not have beaten Houston if Mehmet Okur had decided not to show up in Games 6 and 7 as he'd been doing throughout that series... The Jazz owned the boards and Golden State still almost pulled out the win, they just needed a few defensive stops and it's a different story.

[Bloodline666]

Bring it, Phoenix! Go ahead and go small on us! You'll just get your butts whooped on the boards, just like last game!

Edit: Damn! Looks like I'm eating my words now... :weep:

[El Bandito]

So, the Warriors are officially the most exciting team in the NBA. I mean, the Suns are fun too, but Christ, that gametape could be used as a Baron Davis mixtape without any editing whatsoever.

The dunk over AK47 is easily the best play of the playoffs by far.

[Bloodline666]

Three games in, and the Suns/Spurs series is already getting physical. So far, we've had Steve Nash getting a bloody nose, Amare Stoudemire accusing the Spurs (namely Bruce Bowen) of playing dirty (thus earning the boos of the fans in my hometown), and Manu getting a black eye. I wonder what's in store for Game 4.

[Del Murder]

Both series in the West could easily go 7 games because I don't think the home team will lose any of them.

[Black Mage FF1]

Three games in, and the Suns/Spurs series is already getting physical. So far, we've had Steve Nash getting a bloody nose, Amare Stoudemire accusing the Spurs (namely Bruce Bowen) of playing dirty (thus earning the boos of the fans in my hometown), and Manu getting a black eye. I wonder what's in store for Game 4.

You can easily tell that that was on purpose. Go watch it on youtube. You can see him run up to amare, stop, and then put his foot on on.

Oh and am I the only one who found it funny that the SPURS fans boo'd amare for "whinning?"

I mean, all the spurs do is cry cry cry. And if they are not crying, they are makin faces. Like my favorite, from Duncan...... 0_0

[Bloodline666]

Three games in, and the Suns/Spurs series is already getting physical. So far, we've had Steve Nash getting a bloody nose, Amare Stoudemire accusing the Spurs (namely Bruce Bowen) of playing dirty (thus earning the boos of the fans in my hometown), and Manu getting a black eye. I wonder what's in store for Game 4.

You can easily tell that that was on purpose. Go watch it on youtube. You can see him run up to amare, stop, and then put his foot on on.

Oh and am I the only one who found it funny that the SPURS fans boo'd amare for "whinning?"

I mean, all the spurs do is cry cry cry. And if they are not crying, they are makin faces. Like my favorite, from Duncan...... 0_0

Uhh...first off, I saw that replay. It looked incidental to me. If anything, it looked more like Bruce was trying to draw an offensive or loose ball foul, because I don't think he was paying any attention to where his foot was. Even the league office, who obviously saw the replay from every possible angle, didn't agree with Amare. If they did think Bowen did it on purpose, they obviously would've called him and warned him not to do it, handed down a fine, or suspended him, because they warned him about it early in the season when he did it against New York when they thought he did it on purpose.

Second, if Amare wants to accuse people of playing dirty, then he needs to realize that one of his OWN TEAMMATES clotheslined Kobe Bryant in Game 5 of the Suns/Lakers series last year. If he's not going to say a word about dirty play on the part of his own team, then he needs to shut up about it.