It's getting near... I just want to avoid Phoenix for match up reasons. If Yao is playing then I fear no team.
there are no easy teams. If I had to choose, just because, I'd take the Mav's without Dirk. That's even if they make the playoffs.
Picked Jazz. It's payback time. We have 3 excllent PF to stop Boozer. Our PG psition can match up their guards since Fisher is gone. Most importantly, our rockets will play very motivated.
Totally agree. In thsi wild wild west you don't wanna play any team. We still don't know anything about Dirk but if he's out I'd like to face Mavs. If not I'm sure we can beat NO
Good Matchup: Mavs without Dirk / Warriors / Nuggets Okay Matchup: Hornets Bad Matchup: Lakers Worst Matchup: Suns / Jazz /Spurs
I think we will either end up as the 3d, 5th ir 6th seed, and will probably either play the Spurs, the Jazz or the Suns. Of these three I´d prefer the Jazz, just because we match up best against them and we lost to them last year. But they are a really good home team, so we would need a better record. Other than that I think we would match up good against the Mavs (with or without Dirk) and Denver, and would be able to beat NO for their lack of experience. We should beat GSW as well, the only teams that will be really tough is LA (with Gasol and Bynum) and Pheonix.
I'd like to play the jazz or whoever is in the 4th seed/winner of the midwest because we'd have homecourt advantage over them. If we're 3rd, we'd have HC but risk playin against the spurs or suns. No thanks.
I don`t understand why the Jazz would be our worst matchup? I mean, sure they rarely lose at home and they have a PG that will give us trouble. But other than that I think we`re fine! Boozer will always get some rebounds and score some points. But Chuck is actually a really good defender against him. Scola can take on Okur way out at the 3 point line. Noone else is really scary. On the other hand T-Mac can beat Kirilenko everyday, and I like our bench better than theirs. So if we face them and have HCA I think we will be alright. Nightmare matchup would be LA for sure. Bryant will go off, no matter how good Battier is guarding him. Then they have 2 forces down low which will be hard to contain, Odom at the 3 will be a rebounding monster, and their bench is really good as well. All of our weapons will be guarded by good defenders. Pheonix would be a little better than the last game showed! In the first half their shooting was just insane. In the second half, if we could have made the right shots at the right time (I`m looking at you Rafer and T-Mac) it was our game to take. Still, with two great big men and 2 really quick guards, it would be really hard for us to win this series!
I even thinkl without Yao we can fight agains them. But you have to admin they are totally different, a lote better team when it comes to playoffs
who the hell picked jazz, who on our team can seriously stop boozer or deron williams. i know we all wanna revenge and stuff, but we gotta be realistic, i'd rather play gsw/nuggets in round 1 and jazz in round 2 when we have more confidence
Jazz just because I want to beat them, but that means we would be in 5th which doesn't bode well for home court. but we could see them in the second round, too. Best case is we have 1st or 2nd place to start which will give us home court possibly throughout, and we need all the help we can get.
Looks like we will have better record after those 12 games left (than Utah). Even if we were 5th we would have HCA because of the record. Jazz are 4th cause they are division leaders.
