NBA Playoffs Day 1: Amazing

Hello,

If the NBA Playoffs maintain their frenetic pace of the first day, this will be one of the most exciting playoffs ever. And on the first day, there was mayhem. What happened? The #1 seeded Bulls won their first game of the year, by beating the Philadelphia 76ers 103-91. That's the good news, the bad news is Derrick Rose tore his ACL and is out for the season. Why Rose was in the game with a minute left and the Bulls up by 10+ points I don't know. I read Coach Thibodeaux's reasoning and it came off extremely defensive. Being defensive is usually an admittance to being wrong. Also his rationale made no sense.

I still expect the Bulls to get past the 76ers in the first round, but in the second round they could have some trouble. I would be surprised if Miami doesn't represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals. In one of my favorite scores of the day, the Heat destroyed the loved by the media New York Knicks 100-67. The amazing  overrated Carmelo Anthony missed 12 of 15 shots. But my favorite stat of the day is when Carmelo was on the floor the Knicks were outscored by 35 points. Isn't that usually what happens when you can't make a basket or play defense. I hope this playoffs exposes Carmelo as the creature of hype that he is. And in the torn ACL department, Knicks point guard Iman Shumpert tore his ACL. He's out for 6-8 months. Miami was going to win this series regardless, but this will make it even easier for them. Now it may be a sweep. Then let the Phil Jackson rumors to the Knicks heat up.

Meanwhile the Indiana Pacers choked at home, losing to the Dwight Howard less Orlando Magic. I watched the last few minutes of this game and it was ugly. Quite simply the Pacers choked and Orlando did just enough to win. The Pacers didn't score the final four minutes of the game, even star Danny Granger missed two free throws. It was too bad for the Pacers that Dwight Howard wasn't playing, they could have used the Hack A Howard defense forcing Howard to go to the foul line.

The most exciting finish of the day was when the Thunder beat the Mavericks 99-98 on that Kevin Durrant hanging in the air shot. I thought the Mavericks were going to win this game. However a seemingly concussion free James Harden was the glue that held the Thunder together and the Thunder did just enough to win this game. However this is going to be a good series.

Will Day 2 be as good. The games today are the Jazz going to their chamber of horrors in San Antonio. I expect the Spurs to win this game and series easily. I'm hoping that the Jazz can at least win one game in the series and all their young stud players to gain valuable experience. Then in the afternoon, we have the NBA's favorite team the Lakers playing the Nuggets. Look for Kobe to get a bunch of superstar calls in an easy Lakers victory. I'm cheering for the Nuggets though and I would love for them at least to beat up the Lakers a bit. Then neither the Celtics-Hawks or Clippers-Grizzilies games hold much interest for me, at least at this point. But with Derrick Rose out for the rest of the season, doesn't that make the Heat the Eastern Conference's real #1 seed? Then with the Pacers imploding yesterday, am I wrong to consider the Knicks the Eastern Conference's real #2 seed?

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