So, what has suprised you so far? What has been exactly as you suspected.
Surprised:
Philly and Detroit tied at 2-2
--I have liked Philly's game since January, but I never thought they'd look this good. Even in game 4, they were dominate in the first half.
Boston up 2-1
--Everyone thought they would sweep, and there is no doubt they will still win it, but maybe this will bring people down to earth on the Celtics.
San Antonio up 3-1
--First two games were really close...as expected. Then two blow-outs. Nice effort on game 4, but the Suns really needed to win game 3.
Not surprised:
Lakers up 3-0
--Denver is a head-case. They need to trade someone for someone who will just muscle and not talk.
NO up 3-1
--They've looked really solid. Its too bad Paul won't get MVP, cause he deserves it.
6 comments:
SURPRISED:
ATL!
the hawks looked so good last night (and to a lesser extent, game 3) i can't believe they have such a crappy record. i guess they didn't get bibby till late and they're really young, but still, what a great group of talent. and good call on childress jer. definitely a reality check for celtics fans though- can you imaging ATL doing that to SAS? me neither.
DET
i havent really seen philly until now, but i think i'm more surprised that det is seemingly playing down to their level. i dunno, i saw a little DET earlier this year and they looked solid. this series, not so much.
CLE
i guess i shouldn't be surprised by now, but i really expected them to fall apart. i have no faith in their coach or team. i give lbj all the credit here. he needs to get a new crew, though.
NOT SURPRISED:
PHX
couldn't have said it better myself (although that puts them in my 'not surprised section). they needed gm 3 badly, but to be honest, i think they look way better than most people were expecting. however, with the way the spurs are playing, i doubt any other team will do much better.
CP3
what a bad ass. he struggled for a minute there in gm 3 but what an incredibly talented young man. i can't wait to see him mature a little.
AI
pulls some childish crap and talks smack about george karl to the papers cause he's not playing the right minutes or something. now, i LOVE AI, which is documented thoroughly in this very blog, but this behavior is exactly the type of thing that's keeping the nuggets from competing at a championship level. when your 32 yr old team leader needs to grow up, you've got problems.
DAL
sucks.
during this whole season, i had a sneaking suspicion that they might blow up and kill everyone come playoff time, but now i'm convinced they are worthless. the kidd trade made em go from bad to worse. i expect to see major changes this off season in dallas. if i'm the front office in dallas right now, i have pretty much zero faith in any of the players or coaches.
Det-PHI
Surprised and not surprised. I do remember being up 2-0 on miami two years ago and then losing. I also remember how hard we tried to give the series to chicago before dropping a 2-0 lead to CLE.
ATL-Totally and utterly surprised
Mygod! I couldn't get interested enough to watch the series. But i did watch the last 5 min of game 3. And with that surprise win i decided to watch game 4. ATL was extremely resilient-being down 16-3 to start the game. And they were down by 10 at the end of the third. Johnson and Smith were incredible. But Johnson was mindblowing. He looked like Michael Jackson dancing around that box. He could not be stopped.
But childress was pulling down great key offensive rebounds, and horford was really solid too, with great defense.
CLE- Not surprised, just sad. One-Man-Team could give any team fits i think. The only two teams i don't want detroit to play are CLE and UTAH. Not that other teams are worse then CLE, i jsut don't want DET to be setup for another humiliating upset from Don Lebron.
PHX-NOT: not surprised. But i do wanna say, while perhaps the Dallas trade was a bust. I don't think the PHX trade was. I don't think they would have done better with Marion instead of Shaq. Howver, shaq cost a billion dollars every year.
Hornets-Not surprised. I did pick dallas in 7, but that was jsut because i couldn't decide and finally picked dallas purely on the fact they were deeper. But i woudld't be too shocked if CP owned all the way to the finals.
Lakers-surprised. Not that they won, but that they swept. Denver was grossing me out with the offense. They were just taking turns going 1on1 the whole time.
Dallas-kinda surprised. Mainly becuase i expected Jason Not-a-Kidd-Anymore to be better. I guess we can officially say that trade was a bust. Even though i am a nototius Dirk hater, i feel a little bad for them.
Orlando-Howard got his 3rd 20-20. Last guy to do that in a series was Wilt.
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I am not convinced ATL could not have stolen a couple from SAS as crazy as that sounds. But jsut judging by what i saw from the entire game last night-they were so hype with that home crowd, i think they could have potentially stolen that game no matter who they played. They rode that homecrowd the whole game like they was hanging 10.
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Stern-surprised. Hehe, because he incorrectly used the word "etymology" last night in ATL. Then the broadcasters were like "Wow, he is so smart, i learn a new word every time he is interviewed. heheh." (paraphrased for my convenience)
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Kinda seems like the East has a lot of young teams and the West a lot of old teams. Maybe, if those young teams develope right, (instead of crash and burning like the previously up-and-coming Bulls) the older teams will become too...well, old for them. i'm just daydreaming on that one.
Oh yeah, i wanted to say somewhere(i guess this thread works) that Rondo really looked like a 2nd year player finally last night. He was very shaky on offense and defense. Lack of guard play could be the downfall for Boston.
I was thinking the same thing Tom. And, that is exactly what people were saying was the soft spot of the Cs before the season started. That and bench.
Yeah, i know they was saying that. But i think Rondo really surprised a lot of people since then. But, naturally, we hadn't had a chance to see him in an extremely high pressure situational like game 4.
Not surprised--Dirk spent more time laying down then standing up last game.
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