NBA PLAYOFF PROJECTIONS FROM TRIPLE THREAT SPORTS!
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| Triple Threat Sports - 4/20/2007 1:03 PM |
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By John Therpan - Triple Threat Sports NBA Handicapper Back in October I projected which teams I thought would make the NBA Playoffs, and I am proud to say I had thirteen of the sixteen entrants correct, an 81% success rate. The only teams I missed were Orlando, Utah, and Golden State, and I had seven teams (Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, San Antonio, Houston, Denver, LA Lakers) locked into their exact seeds. This article will project every series through the NBA Finals! Since the first round series were expanded to seven games no #1 or #2 seed has ever lost a series, and I do not expect that to happen here either. Look for the Cavs to sweep the depleted Wizards and for the Pistons to win 4-1, as while Orlando should be able to steal one game at home, note that teams with sub .500 records have only one won playoff game since series expansion. I call for Miami to defeat Chicago 4-3 and for Toronto to get by New Jersey 4-3, with the home team winning every game. The Bulls certainly have a shot to win that Heat series, but have to be reeling a little bit from blowing the chance to be the #2 seed. In the West I lok for San Antonio to dominate the Nuggets in a 4-1 win, Houston to take care of the struggling Jazz 4-2, and for Phoenix and Dallas to both win 4-2 as well. Kobe might score 60 every night, and the Lakers will win a couple of games, but Suns are just too good overall to get into the same kind of trouble they got into with the Lakers last year. Using the above projections Detroit would play Miami and Cleveland would play Toronto in the East. Cavs have to be loving getting the #2 seed as this matchup is infinitely better than playing Miami, Detroit or Chicago, and they should advance pretty easily here against a young Rators team just happy to have won a series. The Pistons/Heat series will be very tough, but will give the edge to Detroit to get some revenge. In the West Dallas should beat Houston 4-2 and it says here that San Antonio beats Phoenix in the other series, either 4-2 or 4-3. Spurs have sacrificed some regular season wins for being better rested in the playoffs, and it will show in this upset. Detroit and Cleveland will meet in a rematch of last year's Semis, a series the Cavs were a rebound away from winning/ (Interestingly, the man who could not pull down that rebound, Flip Murray, is now with Detroit). Cavs have a shot in this series for sure, but the NBA is a stepladder league, and the Cleveland contingent is making a step into the Conference Finals this season while Detroit knows what it is like, and that experience will be the key. In the West I respect what Dallas has done this year, but San Antonio absolutely should have beaten them last year, and this time will get the job done in what should be an excellent series. That would give us a Finals pitting the Spurs and the Pistons, and while that may not be a TV dream, it will be a good series, but one the Spurs will win, in six. We are conservative in the NBA and have had just 20 plays over the last month and a half, going 13-7 (65%) in that span! When we step out with a play in the post season you will want to take notice, and last year we hit 68% in the NBA PLAYOFFS...JOIN US!!! |
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