Saturday, April 20, 2013

A preview for the up coming 2013 NBA Playoffs?




What are we as fans going to expect in this years NBA Playoffs



In this year’s NBA playoffs we have many new teams in the tournament that haven’t been there in so long and are looking to make this a consistent thing.   It seems like no reporter or NBA legend is giving any other team a chance to win the championship other than the Miami Heat. That is unheard of that they think that there is only one team that will win this championship this year. If they truly believe that then they should just give the title to them and not even hold the playoffs or even have an NBA season in that case. I think this years playoffs are going to be very memorable because of the matchups we are able to see in the first round in the Eastern and Western Conference. There are two matchups that stand out to me one from the west and one from the east. The one from the East is the New York Knicks who are the number 2 seed in the playoffs against there rivals the number 7 seed the Boston Celtics. This matchup is like a heavyweight fight. This will be a very emotional matchup for Boston to try to help the city heel from the tragic events that took place earlier in the week. I don’t know how emotional and how hard it would be for them to even step on the court and play this game.   They talked to the Celtics Players before the game and they said that it has been tough and especially when they play the first game on Sunday. What I think will be key for the Knicks is Carmelo Anthony being able to score against a bigger and tough defensive team in the Celtics. Also what I think will be important is where will the other scoring come from the bench players to the starters. Everyone will need to contribute defensively and offensively. They will need to use the pick & roll and to pass the ball to the open man and not take the shots that are unnecessary. The Defense will need to double team Garnett, Pierce, and Green and force the ball out of their hands. These are the important keys to what I think will help prevail the knicks to victory in this series.  
What will be key for the Celtics is to find who will contribute to help Pierce and Garnett since Rondo had went down with his torn ACL.  Pierce and Garnett will need to carry the load against the Knicks because they don’t have the team like they did the past few seasons. They have young talent but are very young which will hurt them. Unlike the Knicks who is a veteran team the Celtics have a lot of young players who havent been in the playoffs or never been in the NBA period. The Celtics are going to need to maintain time of possession and not try to play a fast pace of a game.  They aren’t that young of a team anymore so it will hurt them late in the game. They also have to be able to get second chance points and do a lot of offensive rebounding since they are the worst in the league. The Defense will have to get the ball out of Carmelo’s hands and have them make the other players on the Knicks beat them.  Everyone must contribute in order for the Celtics to be able to have chance in this series. My prediction for this series is the Knicks in either  5 or 6 games.

Now to the Western Conference matchup I think will be like the Knicks and Celtics series and that is the number 3 seed Denver Nuggets verse the number 6 seed the Golden State Warriors.  This series is looking like the Knicks series on the matchups and the fast pace they both play. These teams have great point guards in ty Lawson from the Nuggets, and Steph Curry from the Warriors. What will be key for Nuggets is to keep attacking the paint like they have been all year since they are the best in the league in doing that by averaging 58 points in a season. They also will need to penetrate the ball around the key to the open man to avoid the double team the warriors like to play. They will need also to help the guards on the screens and they need to double team curry and Thompson on top of the key. This will help the nuggets easy the pressure of the main scores and on Coach George Karl. Also the big men of the nuggets will need to contribute to help the scores on the team. What will help the Warriors in the playoffs is help of the screens and to drive to the lane and attack the big man to get them in foul trouble. Also they would need to make sure of staying out of foul trouble this past regular season they were among the top teams to be in foul trouble.
They will need to penetrate the lane a lot instead of shooting the three balls like they always do every single game. This season they were among the top three point shooting teams in the NBA they also will need to get back on defense. If they don’t get back on Defense it will hurt them because the Nuggets are the top 5 teams in fast break points. The defense will need to take the ball out of Lawson chandler and miller who can kill you in anyway.  This series will be a six or seven game series and I think will be a great one. I think the end result will be the Nuggets in seven.

In this Knicks Series I think one of these two teams will be playing the Heat the East Conference Finals because of the type of teams they have that can hold down the heat.  There are many other series I think will be interesting to watch but we all already can predict the outcome of it. It should be an exciting fun playoffs but we will have to wait and see what will happened this is just the beginning and will be getting better and better. Come back and see if I am right and for my decision on who will win in the other series going on. Let me know what you think and send me feedback.

Eastern Conference                                Western Conference

Heat over the Bucks in 5                       OKC over the Rockets in 6
Nets over the Bulls in 7                         Clippers over the Grizzles in 7
Pacers over the Hawks in 6                  Spurs over the Lakers in 5