Bring on the Jazz! Those Salt Pillars are goin' down! Lakers in 6. In the other semifinal, steely Spurs over stinging Hornets in 6. Western Conference Finals: Lakers-Spurs gunslingin' showdown at the OK Corral. Lakers in 6 or 7.
Meanwhile, in the East -- s'up with Boston? What part of put the effin' lowly Hawks away do they not understand? Pistons struggled, but overcame Sixers in 6. Cavs offed the Wizards in 6. Orlando, echoing their great center Dwight Howard, is lookin' like the true "Beast of the East."
Boston is resembling an almost worse case last-year's Dallas Mavericks with their best-record-in-the-league-struggling-with-#8-seed syndrome. What'd Atlanta win, 43% of their games? Ugly. That kinda record is why I used to think the playoffs went too deep in seeding -- that is, until this year's amazing Western conference horse race, with the top 6 teams separated by about 2 games, and the whole 8-pack by a mere 4 or 5.
I expect Boston will still win Game 7 and move on against the Cavs, but they look pretty vulnerable.
Cavs-Celtics now looks like a toss-up, and I think Orlando can take Detroit in 6, as well as beat the Celtics or Cavs in 6 or 7.
Magic vs. Lakers in the Finals. Lakers win it all in 6.
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Right, as we know now, I was wrong about Orlando. But right about Lakers-Spurs. Hornets came damn close. Still think Boston is vulnerable, and Detroit just knocked 'em off home-court perch. So we'll see.