Monday, April 30, 2007

T-Mac comes up huge - NBA playoff notes - 04/30/2007

Great game by T-Mac as he had a career high 16 assists to go with his 26 points. Those are some great numbers for T-Mac who is trying to get out of the first round for the first time in his career. I read somewhere that NBA'ers would prefer to run with T-Mac rather than Kobe, Vince or Gil and I think he is right. T-Mac creates a lot more for his teammates. And today, his teammates repaid him with good shooting. Juwan Howard had 12 on 6/6 shooting and Battier had 15 on 5/7 shooting. Yao had 21-15 and made some plays late. For the Jazz, Booze was on with 26-8 and Deron and D-Fish had good games too, but they went to D-Fish in the clutch and that was not a good call. One good news for the Jazz - there was a AK-47 sighting finally. He had a 8-4-5 game with 3 blocks and stayed on the floor for 30 minutes. Hopefully that can help them the next 2 games.

Cleveland swept the Wizards as expected behind The King's 31-11-7 and Big Z's 20-19. The Wizards fought hard, but they were just not talented enough for the playoffs. Jamison had 31 for an average of 32-9 in this series, but he was an one man army this entire series. The Cavs now just wait for the Nets or the Raptors.

San Antonio did what they always do. Play great defense and stay in the game all night and close it out at the end. It's like clock-work. And now they have big-shot Bob to help as well as Robert Horry hit another clutch 3 to wrap this game up. How clutch and how awesome is that? He just keeps coming up big every playoffs for the last 15 years it feels like. Timmy had a solid game with 22-11-6 as he seemed flustered at times with the officiating, but he knew things will turn eventually and just kept playing his game. Parker had 15 and Ginobli had 18. For the Nuggets, Melo had 29 on 11/18 shooting. AI was bottled up again as he shot only 9/25 for 22. The guy I felt bad for was Steve Blake. Poor guy, he had a bad pass stolen late which untied the game for the Spurs and he also took and missed a few clutch shots. But he also made one big shot which made the score 90-89 before Horry's 3 made it a 4 point game. Even with that make, Blake had his toes on the line and got just 2 points for the shot. Otherwise, they could have still been just 3 back after Horry's shot. Anyways, this series is over now.

Cleveland @ Washington - 97-90
Utah @ Houston - 92-96
San Antonio @ Denver - 96-89

Playoff schedule for 05/01/2007

Dallas @ Golden State @ Dallas - Must-win is an understatement as for as this game goes for the Mavs. They probably will win though.

New Jersey @ Toronto - Can Toronto get this series back to New Jersey?

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