You made a great call in the 1st round, but look what Portland needed.
Historic performance from Aldridge, just 3rd player in history to score 40 pts back-to-back road games in 1 and 2, while Harden shoots under 30% in both games................AND ............on top of that the Blazers still needed a bad call to win the game, without that bad call Houston .......still wins the game despite all those other things.
Blazers have been out-shoot during the season , while Spurs out-shot their opp by 4.2 %, even factoring in 3 pts, FT and turnovers Blazers out-shoot opp by 1.15 % that's a very mediorce playoff team.
After factoring in 3's, FT and TO's Spurs out-shot opp by 4.16 %, teams over 4% are playing on very, very high levels and rarely get beat before con finals.
Spurs were playing on a very high level prior to playoffs as you mentioned they peaked to early, one thing is certain they were due a regression from that high level which they had VS Mavs, I would not read much more then that into the Mavs series, history shows Spurs will lay a beat-down on Portland this series.
You made a great call in the 1st round, but look what Portland needed.
Historic performance from Aldridge, just 3rd player in history to score 40 pts back-to-back road games in 1 and 2, while Harden shoots under 30% in both games................AND ............on top of that the Blazers still needed a bad call to win the game, without that bad call Houston .......still wins the game despite all those other things.
Blazers have been out-shoot during the season , while Spurs out-shot their opp by 4.2 %, even factoring in 3 pts, FT and turnovers Blazers out-shoot opp by 1.15 % that's a very mediorce playoff team.
After factoring in 3's, FT and TO's Spurs out-shot opp by 4.16 %, teams over 4% are playing on very, very high levels and rarely get beat before con finals.
Spurs were playing on a very high level prior to playoffs as you mentioned they peaked to early, one thing is certain they were due a regression from that high level which they had VS Mavs, I would not read much more then that into the Mavs series, history shows Spurs will lay a beat-down on Portland this series.
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