NBA: Will you be watching when? ANSWER:NO!

I'd rather watch soccer.

Regular season soccer.

 

I posted this on the I Heart MLB thread, but it bears repeating here:

 

I'd rather have papercuts between my toes than watch a inning of baseball

 

To each his own, obviously.

 

Hey Chuck, I understand defending your favorite sport, but now you really can't post about the Tigers later this summer.

 

you are my new hero...

 

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

 

Actually, Chuck, I think the 2-3-2 format makes it more difficult for an underdog to make the series competitive, especially if they don't win one of the first two on the road. Winning three in games in a row in any playoff series is difficult, never mind blowing your homecourt advantage load in one wad.

I think it's easier in the 2-2-1-1-1 format. Then all you have to do is win two home games in a row, hold serve in Game 6 and anything can happen in Game 7. Against a better opponent who wins their first two home games, you absolutely must win all three home games or you're toast. Your chances of winning two road games, already down 3-2, to close out a series are slim at best.

Cavs are done in five.

 

You couldn't pay me to watch this series.

OK, i'm lieing.

But what a shitty finals in hockey and basketball and football and baseball over the past year...jeez.

 

Ummmmmm I think I'll be ok.

Well I guess that's one way of looking at it. In my opinion, having 3 games in a row can really help. Especially with in this situation because it's going to be in Cleveland and you know they're gonna be loud.
Im still not counting out the Cavs because the Finals is all about adjustments. The Cavs are a lot better on their home court.
P.S. Just look at what happened last year with the Heat. The 2-3-2 format really helped them

 

without lebron, one could argue the cavs wouldnt have even made the playoffs. without tim duncan, the spurs would still be pretty damn good.

it's over. probably in 5.

 

I think in a case where you have two more evenly matched teams, the 2-3-2 can help the lower seed because that home-court advantage might be just enough to put them over the edge in a close game. But when there's a big disparity in talent, as in this series, winning three in a row is difficult to do, I think it hurts the Cavs.

I think Cleveland wins Game 3 -- which will just about make Steven A.'s head explode as talk of a competitive series heats up -- but the Spurs win Game 4. Once they go up 3-1, the Spurs are too good to let it go any longer. They'll close it out in five.

I am rooting for the Cavs, though. I think it would be pretty cool to see LeBron win his first NBA Finals and it would set up a rivalry with Dwyane Wade (who I'm still convinced his mother just spelled his name wrong on the birth certificate) rather nicely.