With the 2-3-2 format, it's very difficult to win 3 straight home games. If Dallas wins twice at home, they'll have to win twice in Miami. Dallas is a very good road team, but don't forget how good of a home team Miami is. Miami is 8-0 at home this postseason. I think it'll be unfortunate for Dirk that Wade and company has stood is his way twice.
Series play: Miami -180
who will be effectively guarding, bosh, wade and james at same time and producing good scores for the Mavs?
lol, one dirk will outscore big three. dirk will get his due so will the big three. let's see if dirk can beat big three.
i agree Dirk can score and he has proved so, just not sure if marion, stevenson et el, could guard big three and make some serious baskets. Dirk could score 45 pts again but 45 along might not be enough for the game which i think big three could sum up ~70 to 80+ pts.
Because Miami protects home court better than the Lakers and OKC combined. Lakers weren't going anywhere this playoffs and OKC well OKC had a Westbrook infection that appeared to have personal goals set above the team.
Any you really think Lakers and OKC are on the same level last Miami? Look at the committment to defense and the desire to win.
Home court is not as important in the playoffs as it is in the regular season..... alot of home teams are benficiaries of catching teams on back to backs and/or playing 4 games in 5 nights (eg a fatigue and game planning/preparation disparity), and the significance of home court is inflated (Nuggets are seemingly the biggest beneficiary of this).... Also, alot of the those home wins are against scrub n-playoff teams and you can throw them out when trying to assess home court advantage against a top playoff team.....
..... In the playoffs, the fatigue/game planning disparity is taken out of the equation. I am curious if anyone has good data on home winning percentages in the playoffs and regular season.
..... but that being said, home court does seem to be very important for Game 7's.
Like Miami myself, i think the Big Three plus improving bench out of Miller and Haslem, Heat will be a bit too much to handle by Dirk and short handed Mavs. Good luck!
wait a minute here!....dallas has the best playoff record of all thes teams that made it!....they are 12-3 straight up so far....having coverd an unbelievable 13 of those 15 games!!!....they have taken down portland in six games ...the great lakers in four games and now just completed the okie take down in five games...and all of a sudden they have become the "short handed mav's"...what in the world do you mean by this...i think their bench has peformed superbly to creat those kind of stats...have you watched any of the games???...how in the hell are they "short handed"...nothing was brought up about being shorthanded so far in the playoffs!...and they havent lost anybody in the last week ...what in the world are you talking about, short handed???
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