So far, the playoffs have been as unpredictable as any, including the Bubble. We had a sense that the regular season results would be less predictive than usual but seeing Milwaukee get surprisingly dispatched relatively easily by an eight seed…
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NBA 2022-23: Eastern Conference Preview
With each season of the 2020s, the NBA becomes more and more opaque. The 2021-22 Warriors were a very good team but were nowhere near as dominant as their prior iterations. But Golden State, like most of the good teams,…
Miami/Boston and ECF Game 7s
1. We’ve Got a Game 7!: While these payoffs have had some fun moments, we haven’t really had any epic series. The two Game 7s we have had (Boston/Milwaukee and Dallas/Phoenix) were blow outs. I’m moderately hopeful that tonight’s Boston/Miami…
NBA Finals 2019-2020 Preview
Bubble Ball really is different. The Miami Heat, a pretty solid team, has thoroughly dispatched two teams, who seemed much better on paper. Can they do it again? The honest answer is I don’t see it but I didn’t see…
Eastern Conference Finals Preview: Celtics/Heat
In the season that has lasted forever, we are finally to the Eastern Conference Finals. Oddly, the teams playing are the three seed (Boston) and the five seed (Miami). As an initial note, it looks like Boston is the slight…