In my previous blog, I focused on some of the more memorable events which went down in this season's NBA playoffs, & like I envisioned, the above stuff which I hoped (or wished) would happen did happen:
(1) The Spurs finally got a win this season @ Salt Lake City, at long last!! Now they've got a 3-1 advantage in the series & I'll be dipped if they don't take the Jazz out in one more game. San Antonio, right now, is running on all cylinders with the obvious suspects running the court like royalty (in Tim Duncan & Tony Parker) but they've got other lethal weapons that they can count on to pick up the slack if need be. Utah, on the other hand, needs more than Mehmet Okur & (even more so) Carlos Boozer scoring points if they're even thinking about making this a down-to-the-wire series (which so far hasn't been the case).
(2) The Detroit & Cleveland series is now tied @ 2 games apiece. Could this be reminiscent of last year when the Cavs fell oh-so-close to making it into the divisional finals & upsetting Detroit? Could Lebron James & co. finally purge last year's ghosts off the court & knock off the Pistons? If Detroit's not ready to play, the momentum & odds of getting into the NBA Finals could swing into Cleveland's favor real quick. Question is, which of the two teams has more fire in their eyes? And which one of them is most ready to finish business? This is shaping up to be the series I hoped that it would be & Cleveland actually is making a believer out of me at the present time.
As stated before, it isn't over until it's over. Not yet anyways. And not with some of the NBA's best players showing the upstarts how to make noise in the playoffs.
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