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Ah... when I saw the WC thread le, I thought World Championships...
... and the 9th seed being -3L from 8th, this is very probably the final WC seeding:
Ah... when I saw the WC thread le, I thought World Championships...
what the is this 2-2-1-1-1 format? is this for real?
I don't like it at all. for the home or away team.
It's been like that forever (except the 1st round when it was 2-2-1). The finals have always been 2-3-2
It's been that way for a damn long time (except in NBA finals).
I forgot.. how is the format usually?
Nothing has changed.
Actually, back in the day, (well, back before 1985) the Finals were a 2-2-1-1-1 format as well.
Here's the schedule from the 1984 Finals, for example:
Game 1 (1984-05-27 at BOS)
Game 2 (1984-05-31 at BOS)
Game 3 (1984-06-03 at LAL)
Game 4 (1984-06-06 at LAL)
Game 5 (1984-06-08 at BOS)
Game 6 (1984-06-10 at LAL)
Game 7 (1984-06-12 at BOS)
Gotcha, my bad
I think they went 2-3-2 in the finals because LA and Boston played just about every year in the finals. If they didn't play Boston, it was Philadelphia or Detroit.
If it plays out like this, those are going to be two very entertaining semifinals, followed by one of a western conf. final.
Let's get it on!
... and the 9th seed being -3L from 8th, this is very probably the final WC seeding:
Yeah, you are right, the distance was why they did it originally. But I still hate the 2-3-2 for the hometeam.
I think boutons is right, though about the end game at the bottom of the West draw.
Here are the loss totals for the 5 teams that would still seem to have a shot at 7-8 (total games played through Monday in parentheses):
34 -- DEN (69)
36 -- LAC (70)
38 -- NOH (70)
39 -- GST (72)
39 -- MIN (69)
Here's the tiebreaker situations with those teams:
DEN v. LAC -- series tied 1-1, 1 game remains (@LAC)
DEN v. NOK -- NOK leads series 2-1, 1 game remains (@NOK)
DEN v. GST -- DEN wins series 3-1
DEN v. MIN -- MIN leads 2-1, 1 game remains (@DEN)
LAC v. NOK -- LAC leads 2-0, 2 games remain (@NOK, @LAC)
LAC v. GST -- series tied 2-2
LAC v. MIN -- MIN win series 2-1
NOK v. GST -- GST wins series 3-1
NOK v. MIN -- NOK leads 2-1, 1 game remains (@MIN)
GST v. MIN -- series tied 1-1, 1 game remains (@GST)
I never cared until last season when I was ready for the Mavs to get the out of Miami after 2 games
Side note: There was another reference (from Avery) in the paper last week to how poorly the Mav players handled being in Miami (and up 2-0). It's been mentioned several times (very vaguely) that some or all of them were having too good of a time down there. I just wish we knew more details.
I do think that's one major drawback of the Finals schedule. ABC has been insistent upon this Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday schedule for the Finals, which means that the team with HCA has to be on the road for an entire week, barring a sweep. In 2005, the Spurs won Game 2 in SA on a Sunday evening, flew to Detroit on Monday and didn't leave until Horry had broken hearts the following Sunday. They can't leave, because there's so much media availability required. So, they're just kind of stuck there.I never cared until last season when I was ready for the Mavs to get the out of Miami after 2 games
Side note: There was another reference (from Avery) in the paper last week to how poorly the Mav players handled being in Miami (and up 2-0). It's been mentioned several times (very vaguely) that some or all of them were having too good of a time down there. I just wish we knew more details.
Big NBA fan are ya?
Exactly...2-3-2 blows ass...
i heard that hee-haw got sloshed every night out there. i believe that 'cause a co-worker of mine ran into hee-haw, devin, and marquis at a club and she told me he was stumblin' by the end of the night. people even have pics on their myspace with hee-haw and you can tell he's toasted by the glazed over eyes.
... and the 9th seed being -3L from 8th, this is very probably the final WC seeding:
Nice grahic!
Who is hee-haw?
Josh "Hee-Haw" Howard
it's all in the teeth
Houston should beat Dallas.
The original image came from sports site a 2 or 3 years ago.
Here’s my prediction of this bracket, if it turned out this way by the start of the playoffs, my predictions are of how this bracket is played out on the image. So I picked Utah winning the first round, but the poster of this image didn't....so in second round since Houston is there, I picked Dallas 4-0 over Houston.
First Round:
Dallas over LAC, 4-0.
Utah over Houston, 4-2.
Suns over Nuggets, 4-1
Spurs over Lakers, 4-2 but I’m learning more towards 4-1.
[I'd much, much rather see Dallas face GS in the first round, and Utah in the second. LAC and Houston won't do jack vs Dallas in the first and second rounds]
Second Round:
Dallas over Houston, 4-0.
Spurs over Suns, 4-3.
WCF:
It’s a toss-up. Expect Manu to do some unbelievable things.
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