Saturday, December 20, 2014

NBA Western Conference: The Week before Christmas

The Memphis Grizzlies are rolling. They ended the 16 game win steak of the Golden State Warriors and then the next day beat the Spurs at San Antonio in 3 OT.  Their coach has them clicking on all cylinders. I  think they will get the #2 seed in the western conference playoffs which is a scary seed with OKC most likely to be a #7 or 8 Seed. That would be a exciting first round match up. This is how I predict the playoffs will end up.
#1 warriors
#2 grizz
#3 spurs
#4 clippers
#5 houston
#6 portland
#7 okc
#8dallas

GSW-Mavs:  The Mavs will put up a fight, but the warriors are too yong, fast, and can shut down Dallas and its offense. Tyson chandler can't guard the rim and 3 point line. Probably Dirk's last run at the playoffs. GSW wins in 5.
 Grizzlies-OKC this is the best match up of the first round. If KD and Russell wouldn't have missed all those games at the beginning of the season I think OKC would be in that 2 spot. The battle of bigs will be fun to watch and can Tony Allen contain KD like he did last year?



These Predictions were made on Wednesday 12/17/2014 before the Rajon Rondo trade and Corey Brewer trade.


As of now 12/20/2014 I see a slight change in the Western Conference Playoff seeding.


#1 GS Warriors
#2 Memphis
#3 Houston

#4 San Antonio
#5 LA Clippers

#6 Dallas
#7 Portland

#8 OKC

The West is very hard to determine right now because we're still in December and there are a lot of situations that could change. The Corey Brewer addition to Houston was a very smart move by the Rockets that could very well get them through to the second round and possibly to a Western Conference Final.


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