It's that time ladies and gentlemen,
the 2015 NBA playoffs!!!!!!
This is going to be one of the best playoffs in NBA history
Here's my predictions for these playoffs.
It's literally been the hardest playoffs to pick, i don't know if Toronto will beat Atlanta but I know no matter what as long as Cleveland beats Chicago they're making it out of the east. The West is a lot harder to pick mostly every series with San Antonio took me 3 minutes of running scenarios and match ups in my head. They could literally be eliminated in the first round against the Clippers or run and take it all if they make it out of the west, against the in-experienced Cavalries.
Who I want to win it all:
Who wins it all?
20
Golden State
9
Chicago Bulls (just for justrec)
5
Cleveland Cavs
5
Houston
3
Toronto 6ix SIDE!!
3
San Antonio
3
ATL Hawks
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Cleveland is undoubtedly the best team in the East, and every single odds maker has them winning the East and more importantly winning the playoffs, which they will.
even though the east teams aren't over .500 they still are playing very well against the top east teams. they just need to develop a little more and they will be very good in the future
Half of the teams in the league should not make the playoffs... There will always be an unbalance when you have 30 teams and not a large enough talent pool to fill up every team
Lol the NBA shouldn't shorten the playoffs? It should be hard to get into the playoffs, half the teams make it in and in the East you don't even have to be good. They should also contract a few teams tbh
I just cannot imagine how mad Thibs will be. Hopefully they have learned their lesson and don't do this again in the playoffs. This was easily a winnable game even with that many turnovers. now bulls get 2 less days to rest and they better bring their best basketball against the cavs or else it will be a landslide
5) Overall, the bulls shot 48.5% from the field while the bucks shot only 39%. there is no excuse for the bulls to not win a game like this. bucks were getting extra possessions that the bulls gave up. also there were too many offensive rebounds given up by the bulls. they can't go down the stretch giving the other team extra chances to score. even if they were shooting under 40%, the more they shoot the more likely they will score.
4) Turnovers. WAY TOO MANY TURNOVERS. 26 turnovers. rose with 8 turnovers. 2 more than he would have had a double double. Of the 26 turnovers 20 of them were steals! TWENTY! The Bulls are making zaza pachulia look like the defensive player of the year. The reason for all these turnovers are because they were playing at a pace too fast for them to handle. rose can't be driving to the hoop while splitting 3 defenders in the lane. if you break down the defender there will be help defense. bulls have to get into position to receive the open pass. way too many times they were hiding behind the defenders making the pass way too difficult.
3) Defense. you cannot put a smaller derrick rose on the floor against a bigger player. Derrick is not a great individual defender and he makes some bad plays like that. Put Tony Snell in the game instead of rose. Also why is Joakim Noah guarding the inbounds pass. If anything Pau Gasol should be doing that.
2) Shot clock is turned off. what does that mean? You HAVE to get the last shot. Miss or make, you have to make the last shot. the worst thing that can happen is not even taking a shot. That is what happened there.
1) Final Offensive Possesion. Tom Thibodeau has to call a timeout in that situation. you have rose, butler, hinrich, gibson, and noah on the floor. none of can really space the floor. We need to call a timeout and get rose, butler, dunleavy, snell and gasol in the game. all the bucks did on the bulls final possession was clog the lane. there were literally 5 guys pinned on rose and yet he tried to drive to the lane. Be Smart and try to kick it out or maybe just go one on one with the defender.
