So, I drew up some playoff brackets but I don't know how to scan them onto my computer.
Eastern Conference 1st Round:
8)Detroit vs. 1)Cleveland Winner:Cleveland in 4
5)Miami vs. 4)Atlanta Winner:Atlanta in 6 or 7
6)76ers vs. 3)Orlando Winner:Orlando in 5
7)Chicago vs. 2)Boston Winner:Boston in 6
Western Conference 1st Round:
8)Utah vs. 1)Los Angeles Winner:Los Angeles in 7
5)Houston vs. 4)Portland Winner:Houston in 6
6)Dallas vs. 3)San Antonio Winner:Dallas in 7
7)New Orleans vs. 2)Denver Winner:Denver in 5
Eastern Conference Semi-finals:
4)Atlanta vs. 1)Cleveland Winner:Cleveland in 4
3)Orlando vs. 2)Boston Winner:Orlando in 6
Western Conference Semi-finals:
5)Houston vs. 1)Los Angeles Winner:Los Angeles in 6
6)Dallas vs. 2)Denver Winner:Dallas in 7
Eastern Conference Finals:
3)Orlando vs. 1)Cleveland Winner:Cleveland 5
Western Conference Finals:
6)Dallas vs. 1)Los Angeles Winner:Los Angeles 5
NBA Finals:
1)Los Angeles vs. 1)Cleveland Winner:Los Angeles in 6
Monday, April 20, 2009
Preps 2 Pros
I love Adande and won't even try to say this in my own words.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=highschoolers-090416
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=highschoolers-090416
Thursday, April 2, 2009
The D'Antoni-Gentry system.
If only we could, in some delicate, scientific process, combine Mike D'Antoni and Alvin Gentry, then the world could meet the greatest basketball coach of all time.
D'antoni averaged 58 wins per season in his 4 full seasons as Phoenix Suns head coach. Pretty gosh darn good. He also accumulated 26 playoff victories in that time. I'd like that number to be the maximum 64 as much the next guy, but 26 is not too shabby.. Compare that 26 to any team other than the Spurs and Pistons and I'd bet that the Suns are looking pretty good.
Gentry is a measly 13-11 so far in his head coaching tenure with the Suns. That's bad, but we need to remember that he has done nearly all of it at much less than full strength. Amare Stoudemire has missed all but two-and-a-half of those and Leandro Barbosa has missed 10-12 of those games. Those two are huge components in a run-n-gun system.
Now, if we could just find a guy that's as much of an offensive genius as D'Antoni and have that guy play his bench as much as Gentry does. That would be perfection. I do believe the Suns offense was much better under D'Antoni than it is with Gentry. That might be difficult for some to understand because the three games that Gentry had the Phoenix Suns at full strength they scored 140 each game. However, two of those were against the injury ridden Clippers and the other was against the lowly Oklahoma City Thunder.
As much as my blog may indicate that I didn't like Mike D'Antoni, I really did like him. I just wished that he would've told his starters to "Grab some bench" more often. Look at Goran Dragic. He would've never played under D'Antoni and Porter never played him, but Alvin Gentry stuck him out and told him, "Don't worry if you make mistakes. Just play through them and we'll look at the film later. Just don't make the same mistake again. And when you do make a mistake, don't look at the bench of you're gonna be grabbing some bench." That may not be an exact quote.
So, I need those filthy liberals to mess with God given genetics and find a way to combine the philosophies of these two men.
D'antoni averaged 58 wins per season in his 4 full seasons as Phoenix Suns head coach. Pretty gosh darn good. He also accumulated 26 playoff victories in that time. I'd like that number to be the maximum 64 as much the next guy, but 26 is not too shabby.. Compare that 26 to any team other than the Spurs and Pistons and I'd bet that the Suns are looking pretty good.
Gentry is a measly 13-11 so far in his head coaching tenure with the Suns. That's bad, but we need to remember that he has done nearly all of it at much less than full strength. Amare Stoudemire has missed all but two-and-a-half of those and Leandro Barbosa has missed 10-12 of those games. Those two are huge components in a run-n-gun system.
Now, if we could just find a guy that's as much of an offensive genius as D'Antoni and have that guy play his bench as much as Gentry does. That would be perfection. I do believe the Suns offense was much better under D'Antoni than it is with Gentry. That might be difficult for some to understand because the three games that Gentry had the Phoenix Suns at full strength they scored 140 each game. However, two of those were against the injury ridden Clippers and the other was against the lowly Oklahoma City Thunder.
As much as my blog may indicate that I didn't like Mike D'Antoni, I really did like him. I just wished that he would've told his starters to "Grab some bench" more often. Look at Goran Dragic. He would've never played under D'Antoni and Porter never played him, but Alvin Gentry stuck him out and told him, "Don't worry if you make mistakes. Just play through them and we'll look at the film later. Just don't make the same mistake again. And when you do make a mistake, don't look at the bench of you're gonna be grabbing some bench." That may not be an exact quote.
So, I need those filthy liberals to mess with God given genetics and find a way to combine the philosophies of these two men.
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