****The Official 2013-14 NBA Thread****

Goodbye homecourt advantage.

 

c'mon we aren't stomping the pacers, hopefully we win the series, will be tough

 

This is a gentleman's sweep, contigent on the refs and the Baby Hibbert bull**** verticality nonsense.

 

My guess is the Heat in 6. I expect that Hibbert will have a couple of good games that give them wins. It could go 7 depending upon whether those good Hibbert games coincide with one of Miami's horrid shooting nights or not.

Unfortunately I see the Spurs in 5 or 6. I really, really hope I'm wrong on this one.

 

OKC is a tough matchup for SA.

This is a long term thing, not like Brooklyn's 4 game sweep in the regular season. OKC has had a ton of success against SA in both the regular season and playoffs the last 3 years. There is just something about the matchup that makes it tough for SA.

I kind of like OKC even with their ridiculous coach.

 

Would Oklahoma have the home court against Miami in the Finals?

 

That's the hope I'm holding on to. I just worry that SA is catching them at a good time. I think the Clips outplayed OKC for the majority of that series. The Clips are just young and poor at closing out games. SA won't provide that same opportunity.

 

West team will have home court regardless of matchup.

Both have better records than Indy as well

 

Conspiracy theory: LeBron has been too vocal in the past 2 weeks. Owners will take control of that ego. Paul is out. James is next.

 

In those games it looks like we have played with little chemistry. Honestly its no feat to sweep the Bobcats and Brooklyn pushed us way harder than they should have.

 

Miami in six, although if Indy tries dicking around like in the first couple of series this will be over earlier

 

Brooklyn has played better basketball this calendar year than the Pacers have.

 

I agree. I'm not saying we lose this series, I'm saying that we need to play a little more team oriented basketball especially without home court. Especially as a tune up for the finals.

 

I got this going six or seven.

I really hope I'm wrong lol

 

The finals is where the Heat definitely need to pick it up. San Antonio feels like a coin flip to me. Rooting so hard for an OKC upset.

 

To be fair this isn't close to the same Pacer team as even earlier this season. A lot of internal struggles in the locker room and its showing on the court at times.

 

Game of Thrones, NBA Edition.

[video=youtube;St5PLcxZy44]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St5PLcxZy44[/video]

 

Look at this pic from Andrew Wiggins with a vertical of 44




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Come on. Come on.

 

The tell tale numbers don;t say that.

They say the Heat has the best composite Eff. Numbers in their history through two series.

That Spurs offense is good right? Well, the Heat played a top 5 Defense, and a top 10 Defense, and have the #1 Off. in these playoffs.

They have played very good basketball.

 

The Derrick Rose knee joke in this video is the greatest thing ever.

 

I was speaking of the Spurs in 5 or 6 over OKC. Do you disagree? Or did you think I meant or Miami?

I'm not making a prediction on the finals until the finals start.

 

How much of that was boosted by playing the Bobcats. Because nothing about our ball movement looked very good against Brooklyn.

 

Serge Ibaka out for season. Big loss for OKC

 

Well ****. I was very much looking to OKC knocking them out. Still can, but this hurts.

 

Per Broussard, David Fizdale a top candidate for Cleveland.

Read into that whatever you want

 

Brooklyn had a top five defense

 

Which I accept. It just seemed like a lot of our problens weren't with their defense, I felt like there was a lot of isolation, kicking it out and rhen back for more isolation. Not massive issues. Maybe if our threes were falling more it would have looked better to me

 

Sorry I mistyped. I meant to say CHARLOTTE had a top five defense

 

I knew something didn't seem quite right but I went with it

It seems like the Bobcats stagnant offense created a lot of our opportunities. I have no issues with how we played in that series, Im just saying I wont pretend we werent supposed to beat them that way. They were the 7th seed in a bad conference for a reason.

 

They're going to rally around the injury to beat the Spurs and get swept by Miami in the finals.

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Okc. Owns them. Ibaka or no ibaka..that thing isnt going just 5.

I still think okc wins.

 

Its a bluff and broussard is a moron.

Fizdale is not ready for a job.

 

Stephenson done ran his mouth and done ****ed up!

http://heatzone.blog.palmbeachpost....son-wants-to-make-dwyane-wades-knee-flare-up/

Dude about as dumb as a bar stool.

 

I'm really feeling more and more like this is going to be Heat in 5. The more I think about it the more I feel like the Nets team we disposed of last round is better than this Pacers team.

 

Wade might break his foot off in Stephenson's ***, actually. So he's not too far off in his assessment.

 

Mad Wade is best Wade.

 

You know, we haven't seen Wade go Hulk mode in a loooooong time.