That's Beyonce in her new video.
Safe to say the Bulls will be fine this offseason.
ECF's PREVIEW-
Heck yeah! The Atlanta Hawks and the Cleveland Cavaliers meet up for a shot at making the NBA Finals. Last year, you would have never, ever, thought these two teams would end up here. Atlanta was coming off of a horrible off-court issue which allegedly included racist comments by Danny Ferry, who unlike sterling, took it upon himself to turn himself in and to cooperate with the NBA during this problem. Turned out that his comments were not that racist and that he would still be respected on how he handled this himself, but the Hawks were nowhere near being a good team, having only average players (so they thought)... Cleveland also came off a season where they missed the Playoffs, Kyrie Irving was angry because he had no support whatsoever from his Cavs teammates. The Cavs arena was not filling up seats, and they had no good ways to fix that.
Then it changed ,suddenly, the Hawks went into the season confident and won many games, without many stars, they just played good, down-to-Earth, basketball. Dribble, call, pass, get buckets. They brought the city of Atlanta from its gloomy ventures into sports to a thriving and appreciative arena. The arena would be filled the whole season and they would finish with the second best record in the league. They nearly missed the playoffs last year.
For the Cavs it came earlier, after Kyrie and Dan Gilbert (the owner) watched LeBron James lose the Finals against the old, yet great, masters of basketball Spurs from a presumably very expensive and comfortable couch, they thought he would be looking to play for some other teams. Not any other team, but his hometown, the non-vacationable Cleveland, Ohio. He came home. The Cavs went off to a lousy start, in which many criticized the extremely poor, dumb, rookie coach in Davis Blatt. Blatt would not be a factor when Cleveland started rolling, beating good teams. Blatt would also win a Coach of the Month award, which many, many, many people think was just a way for the NBA to cover up the fact that LeBron was calling every single play, and Blatt just repeated from him. Clever lads! Nevertheless after a tough series with the Chicago Bulls, they ended up here.
The Hawks play good basketball and they make very witty plays, but they just haven't come close to the regular season Hawks we actually payed 25% attention to. They fell apart and aren't passing as well or finishing plays. They need Kyle Korver to step up and hit those three-pointers, and they need Jeff Teague to keep improving on his numbers, he could be a threat if he reaches that flow he had in the Regular Season. DeMarre Carroll is carrying the Hawks as of now, and Al Horford is seemingly making big plays at the end of the game. Expect big numbers from them.
The Cavs have many good players, as you all know and LeBron, along with a little bit of Kyrie Irving were carrying the Cavs. Kevin Love is absent for the rest of the season with an injury, and Tristan Thompson isn't doing much at all. They key for the Cavs will be if they get J.R. Smith fired up, if that happens he will be hitting 3's for days, and days, and days at ease. That's just what he does. Iman Shumpert can get the team fired up too, he is getting good at hitting jumpshots, and also being a better defender than he was in the Regular season, bringing him back to that dependable wing defender he once was. LeBron will obviously score over 25 every game, no one on earth can contain him in the playoffs, the only person who could do that is not even a person, but an extraterrestrial athletic freak who owns a 'Waffles and Wings' restaurant on Earth. An alien whose real name is ExtremeJumpaDunksAlot-von Mars, but goes on Earth goes by the name of
NATE FREAKING ROBINSON!!!!!
Back on topic, the Cavs are good, so are the Hawks, but the Cavs are waaay better.
CAVS WIN 4-2
WCF'S PREVIEW-
How the heck did the Rockets get here? They were down 3-1 to the Los Angeles Clippers, the team that beat the WORLD CHAMPION SPURS. They were completely depleted of any energy and somehow, they beat them. Somehow. James Harden dreamed of that, next to a supermodel on an even more expensive couch in Houston, while watching replays of the 'Houston we have a problem' Massacre. The massacre that would leave any Rockets fan crying on the floor in those God-awful red and white jerseys. The ugliest in the league.
The Warriors were already rolling but came to a screeching halt when the met up with the gritty and good Grizzlies. The Grizzlies had a great team with many good players, Z-Bo, Marc Gasol, a really good player, Mike Conley, and a LEGEND, TONY ALLEN. They were a huge threat to the Warriors and won two games of that series. The Warriors maged to get by the 2-1 scare, and went on a run, hitting many threes along the way. They won in Memphis, with the home crowd still clapping even though they were obviously going to lose to the Warriors. The crowd cheered for their Grizzlies, an arrangement of great players, and great spirit. The Grizzlies have the best fans in the league. many teams would love to have their fans. The Warriors are off again to face another opponent.
The Rockets were, meanwhile, planning on what to do. They would not go back to being their dumbassses and shooting a three-pointer on every possession, they would instead muster up the conference to play good in the post with Smith and Howard dominating it for a game. They needed there bench to produce a little bit to win another game. Then they needed the Beard to turn it on and go crazy on the Clippers. Make the world think "I'M THE MVP" even though Curry is and deserves it in every which way. James Harden did that and proceeded to help them win a series against the Clippers. We were doubting the Rockets from the start, but they did it, ugly jerseys and all.
Now the Rockets face the great and powerful Warriors, who can kill a team in a heart-beat, led by the MVP Steph Curry, and his 'Splash Bro' Klay Thompson, they roll into the land of great shooting from every side. They also have great defensive players who make impacts on both ends, Draymond Green is the player I'm talking about, he makes serious differences on both sides of the court. Good differences, not bad ones. They are the core of this Warriors squad along with big man Bogut. David Lee did not produce much, but against Houston he produces 15 ppg, on average. Thats double his lackluster average for the last ten games. That's good news. Those will be the factors along with some play from Harrison Barnes, who is the X-Factor.
If the Rockets would like to win at least one game, they will need great effort from James Harden, who will need to score 35-40 in the game they win, if they win at all. Dwight Howard will need to step up his post game and dominate on Golden States, which its post is not very dependable. The Rockets also need help from Josh Smith and Terrence Jones, to bigger guys who can shoot better-than-usual bigger guy jumpshots. Keep that up and we need some excellent bench play, Patrick Beverly reportedly 'Abandoned hope of playing in the West Finals' as announced about 3 hours ago, even though his cast is off. Get some of the bench to work along with all those factors and you might, just maybe win a game.
WARRIORS WIN 4-1.... MAYBE 4-0. EITHER WAY THEY WIN OKAY?
I might not post for some undisclosed reasons, AKA Finals, school finals. I'll try though.
--KSP--
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