Judging by the hand-shaking, smiling and hugging afterwards, these two teams don't exactly hate each other. The love was flowing.
Requires 2 teams to be competitive usually and have bad blood from a playoff serious. Washington has never really been at that level.
NOP looks like they will pull out a close one. Holiday sure can take over a game. DMo will another 0 pt game on 6 minutes.
Chuck: Rockets are not playing well so they gotta drop. Anytime you have Gasol & Conley, you'll be competitive. Give Zach Randolph credit. Goes to the bench & doesn't complain. That takes a lot. Shout out to Zach Randolph for being a grown ass man. (Fight for 8) Portland has a better team than Dallas. Denver, can they hang in there? That's the question. Portland has the best team of 8, 9, 10 & 11, from a talent standpoint. Portland is better than Sacramento & Dallas.
The decline came when Chuck acknowledged Harden and the Rockets. Chuck is off the bandwagon making the city of Houston substantially lighter. Championship run confirmation.
The Rockets have beaten the Warriors, Spurs, and Grizzlies(all on the road). And they'll get another crack at the Cavs soon.
I think the most impressive aspect of the grizzlies feat is the amount of games they took to do it. They are 6-2. The rockets are 3-4 and haven't beaten the cavs. The grizzlies problem is the eastern conference. Plus, the grizzlies are also one of three teams with a winning record against .500 or better teams record-wise in the west. The grizz, the spurs and the warriors are the other 3. In fact there are only 4 teams in all of the nba that are above .500 against teams with .500 records: cavs, grizz, warriors and spurs. The hawks are 8-8.
