All the 4 playoff series today ended up at 3-1. Dwayne Wade made sure the Heat got one back today. He was sensational as he dropped 46 on the Celtics. The Heat were up a lot and then they lost all that lead and trailed by 5 or 6 at one point. It seemed like the Heat should have been so deflated and ready to go fishing. But Wade had other ideas. He just decided to go bonkers and even hit 3 after 3, which is really not his game. He made 16-of-24 shots, 5 of 7 from 3-point range, and outscored the Celtics 19-15 in the fourth quarter. Thats amazing for someone who shoos just 30% from 3 and takes no more than 3 per game. It was one of those special games for DWade in what might be his last game for the Heat. I think he resigns, but you never know.
It was a great day for the 2003 draft class as LeBron and Melo followed DWade with great showings of their own. Cleveland creamed the bulls behind LeBron's triple double - 37/12/11, shooting 11/17. Melo lost, but dropped 39/11 and almost had a dubious triple double with 9 turnovers. The Jazz are surprisingly leading this series 3-1. This was a 4-V-5 series and those are always close. And this was especially supposed to be tight in this year's Western playoffs where even 1-V-8 is sensationally tight. But the surprising part is that the Jazz met with late season and post-season injuries to AK-47 and Okur. Thats when I switched my pick to Denver. But Jerry Sloan and his system is genius. They are taking it to the more talented Denver team behind starters named Fesenko and Matthews. Sloan should be winning the Coach of the year award every year or like somebody said, they should just name the award after him instead of giving it to him.
Dallas is in trouble. They are down 3-1 and today, they got undone by George Hill who had 29 points. Duncan, Ginobli and Parker combined to score just 31 points on 9/34 shooting once again proving they win behind their defense and experience. Of course Hill's offense didn't hurt, but they bottled up everybody on the Dallas side including Nowitzki. For all the glitter and glamour of the Mavs, they really are not setup to handle such playoff pressure unless Nowitzki shows up big. If he is off, they are like chickens with their heads cut off. All that scoring talent they got seem pretty inconsistent and they seem to run a system that is just hoping for people to hit shots and score and it doesn't really have a consistent scheme outside of Nowitzki. And against teams like the Spurs, hope doesn't quite get it done. The Suns are similar in some ways and they have to use their home court and make it 3-2 tomorrow. They have to unleash Amare to neutralize the size of the Blazers and somebody, anybody has to slowdown LaMarcus Aldridge. Orlando and Atlanta are also playing tomorrow, but who cares.
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