Do we deserve a dud NBA Finals?
Game 1 of the NBA Finals was clunker: Lakers 100, Magic 75. And maybe that’s what we deserve.
We’re coming off six weeks of some of the best playoff basketball in memory. Two great conference finals, excluding Game 6 blowouts. A riveting Eastern Conference showdown between Boston and Orlando that was overshadowed by the Chicago-Boston first-round series which was the greatest series in American sports history. Western Conference series (LA-Houston, Denver-Dallas) that while maybe not dramatic on the court all the time, was dramatic in other ways, with the Nuggets and Mavericks spatting all series and the Rockets somehow staying competitive despite losing their two best players.
It’s been a fabulous, fabulous playoff run, and maybe it’s too much to expect a great Finals. It’s not a good matchup for Orlando; the Lakers can plug all the Magic’s openings. I don’t think it will be a sweep, but my prediction of LA in five looks pretty solid.
Oh well. The NBA playoffs were fun while they lasted.
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I’m sure whatever happens, the loser will get the money. That’s all that matters. Money is the only thing that matters in pro sports today. The loser will be crying all the way to the bank. Maybe they should go on strike for more loser pay. Or get better steroids. I can just see myself in the crowd booing a professional sports person and he is laughing to himself, telling me to boo all I want because he is making millions of dollars playing this game. Boo all you want too. Ha Ha What is the point??? Can we call someone who is making millions of dollars a loser??? What has he really lost??? A game, most people will forget about a couple years down the road???
I really think we should let more than one game play out before we decide how this series is going to go. Sure Orlando had it handed to them yesteday, but they had a bad shooting night and it had nothing to do with how the Lakers were playing them. They (Orlando) make half the shots they missed and that game is a whole lot closer. I am not saying your wrong, but I also think patience should be in play. I think Orlando was in cloud 9 being in the Finals but I think game 1 was a real wake up call. I would expect the games to be much tighter than last night going forward. But geez give them a break they weren’t suppose to be in the Finals in the first place.. I for one think this series still has a chance to be good.