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babyKnicks
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Hey team, who will the Knicks play in the first round?
Chicago bulls
Boston celtics
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babyKnicks
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3/31/2011  9:43 PM
My gut tells me Chicago...for some reason it's gonna happen I think...either we slip to 8 or Chicago slips to 2.

I'd like to see Orlando by some stroke of luck. Not.

I'd like to avoid the celtics. To me the playoffs is all coaching and doc rivers is the best coach in the east IMHO.

Let's go Knicks. That's amare
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3/31/2011  9:53 PM
man tough question.. I think it's a matter of us meeting Boston, Mia or Chicago. I have a feeling that we'll meet Miami by some mysterious meddling from "above". I'm almost positive that we won't meet Orlando. Of those 3 teams, Miami or Chicago are the ones I'd prefer, but shyt. They're all great teams
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3/31/2011  9:54 PM
We have a shot at beating all of those teams except Boston. Too much chemistry, too much firepower, and too much defense.
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3/31/2011  10:09 PM
Boston is struggling, disharmony, Kristic is starting center. O'neals hurt, Rondo not right, they are prime. Chicago is too balanced where we are weak, and losing to the superfriends and Riles is too painful.
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3/31/2011  10:10 PM
I think we'd have the best shot against Chicago or Boston. Miami would scare me in the playoffs and I think Orlando has a good shot to win the East. I think we match up worst against Orlando. Pick your poison.
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3/31/2011  10:26 PM
Nalod wrote:Boston is struggling, disharmony, Kristic is starting center. O'neals hurt, Rondo not right, they are prime. Chicago is too balanced where we are weak, and losing to the superfriends and Riles is too painful.

Celtics look good tonight against the spurs. I want the team with the smallest center and that Chicago.

Let's go Knicks. That's amare
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3/31/2011  10:32 PM
babyKnicks wrote:
Nalod wrote:Boston is struggling, disharmony, Kristic is starting center. O'neals hurt, Rondo not right, they are prime. Chicago is too balanced where we are weak, and losing to the superfriends and Riles is too painful.

Celtics look good tonight against the spurs. I want the team with the smallest center and that Chicago.

I also want the team with the center that most resembles a female, and that's Noah.
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3/31/2011  10:44 PM
JrZyHuStLa wrote:
babyKnicks wrote:
Nalod wrote:Boston is struggling, disharmony, Kristic is starting center. O'neals hurt, Rondo not right, they are prime. Chicago is too balanced where we are weak, and losing to the superfriends and Riles is too painful.

Celtics look good tonight against the spurs. I want the team with the smallest center and that Chicago.

I also want the team with the center that most resembles a female, and that's Noah.

Better to have a center who resembles a female than no center at all.

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3/31/2011  11:22 PM    LAST EDITED: 3/31/2011  11:56 PM
Personally, I want Miami because we can rebound against them. I think we get swept or beat 4-1 by Boston w/ Shaq and JO coming back alongside Garnett, Murphy, Davis and Green. Are you guys serious?

Were both Noah and Boozer in the game when we won the 2nd game against Chicago?

Other than, again, most likely getting destroyed on the boards by Noah, Boozer, Gibson, Asik; Rose is gonna eat Billups alive and make Toney look even dumber than he looks now when he comes out to play his man tight at half court, only to get repeatedly blown by while watching our already awful help D breakdown. Why has no one told him to cut this **** out btw?

This is how I see the Heat series:

Bibby/Chalmers vs Chauncey/TD would be in our favor.
Wade vs Fields would be in MIAMI's
LeBathroom vs Melo would be close, but still probably for MIAMI
Bosh vs Amare would be NY
Center is a wash (Shelden/Turiaf should handle Illgauskas/Dampier)

But the big factor is the fact that Miami has pathetic fans and NY would most likely have a pretty solid showing there as well as MSG making any home court advantage a moot point. All the pressure would/will be on them, hopefully enabling NY to play that much looser. Just imagine LeBron in MSG in the 4th qtr of a tight game w/ the series tied at 1-1. Dude is shook.

I say bring on the Heat. Fuck em
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4/1/2011  12:14 AM    LAST EDITED: 4/1/2011  12:22 AM
There's no way Orlando is anything but the 4 seed and there's no way the Knicks get to the 5 seed, so Orlando's out. Chicago has a 2 and 2.5 game lead over Boston and Miami and the Knicks have a 3.5 game lead on Indy. These teams have 6-8 games left in the season so it's pretty unlikely that Chicago or NY falls, so it's probably not Chicago. That leaves Boston and Miami.

Boston has a 0.5 game lead on Miami with 8 games left and Miami has 7 games left. The 2 seed in all likelihood comes down who wins on 4/10 when they play each other. My guess is that Boston wins and it's NY-Bos in the first round. Not a great match-up, I'd much rather see Chicago or Miami since the Knicks have shown they can beat them.

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I'm looking at Miami's and Boston's schedules and it's a bit more complicated then what I said.

Miami has 7 games against Minn, NJ, Milw, Char, Bos, Atl, and Tor. Boston has 8 games against Atl, Det, Philly, Chi, Wash twice, Mia, and they end the season at home versus NY. It's very possible that NY-Bos game could decide each team's first round opponent. If NY wins they could end up playing Miami, who they match-up better with, and Boston could play Philly. If Boston wins they would probably play NY and, probably more important to them, would have home-court advantage in a probably second round match-up against Miami. It will be an interesting two weeks.
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