For me, in the West, I think Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder have the shot in the Western Conference to dethrone the Defending Champs because the Housten Rockets depth especially now with Joe Johnson added have a chance to fight against the Warriors as for Oklahoma City with much more game remaining before the postseason if the Chemistry of their big three goes so well GSW will be find it hard to beat them.
Yeah the Golden State Warriors are going to have it tough when they face the likes of the Rockets and OKC Thunder in the playoffs and am very certain that they are not going to make it at all when to even claim the conference championship.
I agree with the both of you. Those teams have put up a solid team this year and it will make a big difference to challenge GSW in the West. Right now we are seeing that GSW is somewhat inconsistent.
As for the East, Toronto and Boston to challenge Cavs. Its gonna be exciting to see how everything will progress after the all star break because we are getting closer to the playoffs.
GSW could still win for this year as they have the edge on there Chemistry and Talents as compared to those teams that has newly acquired players thru trades. Championship is a game of adjustments where those chemistry, talents and coaching are necessary.
Warriors should easily find themselves in the finals of play-offs they clearly have been the best team out there in the past three years atleast they could face some problems only
if they face the Cavs or Rockets before the finals. I hope that we get to see them both in the finals it will much more interesting games then Cleavland. The Cavs improved their squad It's going to take a while to find the right rotations. We may even need a trade if players like JR & TT don't step up and guys like Shump don't start playing within their games. but I doubt that they can be finalist this year maybe next year and that if they kept LeBron .
They won't face the cavs before finals because they are in a two different conference. And I don't think the Cavs have improved their roster, they trade IT again and they don't have Irving. Remember that Irving last year always almost have the 20% - 30 % of the teams points every game and he is a very clutch player which are necessary to win close games. I don't know, Lebron is a basketball hercules but I cant see them winning on the conference this season.
The rockets and warriors match up in the playoffs will be an earth shaking games, Im hoping that Harden will get that MVP trophy this year.
great performance in the night for S.Curry with 44 points 6 rebounds and 10 assists and an incredible 8/11 by 3 points. Golden state won against the tough Los Angeles Clippers 134-127.
Oklahoma won against Sacramento 110-107 with the usual triple-double of Westbrook (18th in this season).
Oklahoma is fighting for third place!
Cleveland is a team under construction and in fact lost 110-103 against Washington. Cleveland is likely to lose other positions in his conference.
They might not make it in the CF, unless lebron goes for mamba mentality. The Zone in every game, in every possible shots and way.
Have watched Lebron playing before the trades were done and now after.
And it is a complete overhaul of how his play has been.
It is uncanny really to see him dominating the boards again and the near blow out in the game last night was very cool to witness him going fast break again just to crush it.
It is very cool to see him going into full beast mode again right before the playoff start up again.
Lebron James plays are different every playoffs, he is putting much more effort than anyone in the league and I have seen that a couple of times every finals, but we can't changed the fact the everyone has their own limitations due to aging and he is past his prime. It is good to know that after the trade cleveland have improved, his presence can make everyone more stronger in the floor and hes play making is top notch, that is his key now to win a championship.
What happen to the cavaliers, they lose twice in a row already against the struggling Spurs.
I really thought they can easily win the game tonight since they are coming from a loss and they need to bounce back hard, so this line up is not working again?
That means that never underestimate the Spurs coach.
Amazing Dirk Nowitzki, he is the sixth player in the history of the NBA with at least 31,000 points!
he next year will make a record: 20 seasons in the same team (obviously the Dallas Maverick)
Nowitzki is the strongest international player, leading the Dallas mavericks to the title。
Its unique leg jumper is known, the old king because his old dream of, have become more and more happy, then present today and improve step by step on the score history list, it is to make the fans happy.
His fadeaway is untouchable tho', not sure what happened in defending their championship title way back in 2012.
