catbert

Originally posted by brightlee at 2005-3-21 03:44 PM:
yes, if Heats will not have injury, they may have the biggest chances!

However, Heats are 1-7 vs Spurs, Suns, SuperSonics and Mavericks (the current top four seeds in the West) in regular season.  Do you guys think Heats can beat any of these four teams, say, if they match up in the Finals?

catbert

My hunch is Detroit and Boston will take seven games to decide which team will advance - and I bet it will be Detroit.  Miami can probably finish Washington in 5-6 games.  And it will take Miami seven games to beat Detroit and advance the the NBA Finals.

Again, just my hunch ...

catbert

Originally posted by crap at 2005-3-21 10:44 PM:
o right, Wizards got great potential as well, they got some depth in their roster as well

Yes, the Wizards are having a great year.  Nevertheless, they don't really have a decent front-court player with the exception of Antawan Jamison, who is on the IL now.  In that case, it will be tough for them to play against the Heat.

catbert

Originally posted by brightlee at 2005-3-21 10:49 PM:
yes, but they may not playing good in playoffs this year, nearly No players have experience in playoff,
give them some years to learn the experience in playoffs
they should have a bright future.

brightlee, they = ?

catbert

Originally posted by brightlee at 2005-3-21 10:54 PM:
yes, their big men  ...

Agreed.  Got a q though.  Is Wade playing PG or SG (or both) now?  It seems that they are now using Damon Jones as a PG and Wade as SG.

catbert

Originally posted by brightlee at 2005-3-22 07:35 AM:
they may slide down to 3rd seeds in this case, as they get the playoff berth already, they wouldn't be that bad...
see how Gregg will use Nazr Mohammed nowadays

Spurs put TD on the IL earlier today and he's expected to miss at least two weeks.  There's a chance that he might miss the rest of the regular season.  In this case, I agree that Spurs might drop to the 3rd seed and I think that would be the lowest they could get.  Don't think that would be an issue for them for the first round of playoff - assuming that TD is back for the playoff.

However, they might not have the homecourt advantage for the second round (if they are no.3 seed) and conference finals (if they are no.2 or no.3 seed) then.  Do you think that would be an issue for them?  Personally, I do.  While they have been playing really well at home, the Spurs have not been playing that well on the road this season.  So TD's injury could potentially cost Spurs' chance of getting championship this year.

Just my humble opinion ...

[ Last edited by catbert on 2005-3-22 at 10:02 AM ]