Spurs Facing The Upset

I believe San Antonio is en danger. The Mavs lead the series 3-1 and even though the series is coming back to San Antonio, I don't see the Spurs able to win 3 games in a row against such a competitive team. I believe the injury of Manu Ginobili might have been worse than expected.

The Spurs aren't able to develop a balanced offense. Parker and Duncan must score 30 pts to hope a victory. That is sad but the bench of the Spurs is at the moment probably the worst in these playoffs.

I am sad because that means the Spurs will need to rebuild for next season. They must get deeper on their bench and get someone able to score inside alongside Duncan.
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Dwight Howard Best Defender In The NBA

Dwight Howard is soon to become NBA's 2009 best defensive player. That isn't really a surprise of course. His great athletic skills allows him to control the paint. Wether it is a one on one defense or help defense, Howard put pressure on the other team and it it difficult to approach the Magic's hoop. Howard has been one of the hottest candidate to the MVP trophy even though James is dominating this year.

Jazz Excel In The Paint

I love the way the Utah Jazz is playing since Deron Williams Was dreafted. They have a specific technique in transitions that enable their forwards to get easy baskets in the paint. Indeed during transitions, both SG and SF crosses through the paint as any regular NBA team.

But instead of completely going out to the 3 points line, Utah owns some athletic guys like Brewer or Millsap that stops in the paint to wait for the pass. That give them the opportunity get easy dunk behind the defense that most of the time float to force the point guard out of the paint.

The lakers did a great job by cutting the passes in the paint but Utah is very good at it. I believe this a very ingenious new way to play transitions.
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Point Guards Run The Show

This NBA playoffs debute was the stage of great point guards performances. Wether their teams won or lost point guards have marked these 1st games

Rose break the record for points scored for a rookie
Bulls point guard Rose broke the Kareem Abdul Jabbar record for most points score by a rookie for his playoffs debute. With 36 points, Rose was the main reasons why the Bulls upset the Celtics. He was efficient and led the bulls, despite a great performance of Rajan Rondo.

Billups Scores 36
Billups is far from being a rookie but scored 8 3-pointers to get 36 points, and the Nuggets dominated the Hornets. Chris Paul played pretty well, but couldn't do nothing against Billups.

Williams with 17 assits
Deron Williams also broke a personnal record by delivering 17 assists for only 2 turnovers. The Jazz couldn't compete with the Lakers that were too strong in the paint for Utah that played without Okur.

Other honorable performances by Andre Miller and others. But as you could see PGs were hot this week end
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Lakers Beat The Jazz

I have just seen the end of the Los Angeles Lakers- Utah Jazz game. Los Angeles seems very impressive. At no occasions we have seen Utah able to win against Kobe's team. Despite a great Deron Williams, which had his assist record in playoffs with 17, Utah hasn't been able to get in a great paint, where Odom and Gasol dominated defensively. They've stopped Millsap and Brewer from getting in the paint, disrupting Utah's flow. Kobe did a good job offensively, but what impressed me the most was the balanced offense of the Lakers. The ball was turning well even though Utah was very aggressive on the defensive end.



Utah could have done a better job offensivelly but they had too few 3 points going through.



Good game, but you could expect the lakers to win that series easilly.

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Iverson's Season Is Over

Allen Iverson's season is finally over. Whereas the ex star of the Sixers made the headlines last week as he was expressing his concerns about starting games on the bench, Iverson's might miss to the Pistons for the playoffs.



Now don't get me wrong. As a matter of fact I am still considering that it was great news for Detroit not to see Iverson coming back, because the team finally found its chemestry while Iverson was out. But it is sad. Because we all know Iverson is an experienceed players and owns great one on one skills that could help the Pistons to win important games.



In my mind there is no doubts Iverson won't be back next year since he would have been a bench player if he'd have had go on this season and have expressed he wasn't ok with that situation. What is going to happen to Iverson. As Marbury has proen everybody wrong, and showed he could become a great role player, Iverson has failed to show that. He was put in a situation where he was for the first time in a potential nba champioship team, but could not adjust his game.



That will be interesting to see if some teams in this league might be interested by AI. I bet on a return to Phily, for a marketing purpose mainly.

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